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Download White Paper: Breaking Through the Distance: How Relationships Foster Online Learning

In the spring of 2020, in response to COVID-19, Breakthrough Collaborative mounted an unprecedented, network-wide effort to develop a virtual ecosystem. The aim was to deliver a replica of its in-person summer program of academic and social-emotional support to thousands of students at its 24 affiliates across the country. The staff faced two significant challenges: […]

Download Report: Breaking the mold: How a global pandemic unlocks innovation in K–12 instruction

At the Christensen Institute, we’ve spent the last decade studying trends in online and blended learning out of interest in their potential to enable student-centered learning. Yet in ways we never anticipated, COVID-19 brought these modalities to the forefront. As this new reality unfolds, we continue to document both the challenges and the innovations happening […]

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Remote Learning Is Here to Stay Results from the First American School District Panel Survey School districts in the United States have approached reopening public schools during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in notably different ways. The authors of this report developed a national picture of school districts’ needs and approaches to school reopenings […]

Download Report: A Stronger Nation— Tracking America’s progress toward 2025

A Stronger Nation tracks the nation’s progress toward the 60% attainment goal. It offers detailed data arrays that describe education attainment at the national, state, and county levels. The report also provides attainment data for each of the nation’s 100 most populous metropolitan regions. All of this data is available in an interactive format to assist you […]

Download White Paper: Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction within Remote Learning Environments

The purpose of this white paper is to provide the Ohio Departmentof Education and regional technical assistance staff with a multidisciplinary perspective on the challenge of providing all prekindergarten through grade 12 students with appropriate, standards-aligned, and evidence-based literacy instruction within the context of blended/hybrid learning environments. It is an initial attempt to integrate multidisciplinary information […]

Download Report: Accountability in Massachusetts’ Remote Learning Regulations

Accountability in Massachusetts’ Remote Learning Regulations The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has solicited public comment on pandemic-related revisions to its important “Learning Time” regulation, 603 CMR 27.00. 1 This policy brief constitutes the comments of Pioneer Institute. The revisions establish baseline procedural and substantive requirements for in-person, hybrid, and remote learning. […]

Download Report: Top IT Issues, 2021: Emerging from the PandemicThe EDUCAUSE 2021

Top IT Issues examine three potential scenarios for the role of technology in higher education after the pandemic: restore, evolve, or transform. EDUCAUSE

Download Report: Student and Faculty Experiences with Emergency Remote Learning in Spring 2020

The emergency shift to remote learning that took place during the spring 2020 term in response to the COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented disruptions for students and faculty across colleges and universities, nationwide and globally. As online and hybrid models of learning become prolonged solutions for institutions seeking to contend with the realities of the pandemic […]

Download Report: Global development of AI-based education

Artificial intelligence (AI) is accelerating the integration of information technology into education, providing support or even alternative approaches for practioners in the industry. AI-based education in the future will be driven by the use of data, intensive technology application, integrated innovation, and service optimization. Deloitte

Download Report: Parenting Children in the Age of Screens

Two-thirds of parents in the U.S. say parenting is harder today than it was 20 years ago, with many citing technologies – like social media or smartphones – as a reason Pew Research