This report offers insights into how state summer learning efforts were launched as a response to the pandemic.
Policymaker
On October 3, 2023, the RESTART Network hosted the 2023 Virtual National Symposium featuring the National Association of State Boards of Education and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The webinar included presentations from researchers and policy leaders who are leading efforts to advance academic recovery.
By Kylie Klein, Senior Researcher & RESTART National Network Lead
In this brief, an analysis is conducted on the patterns of allocation, spending, and intended investments of money provided to school
districts in North Carolina by the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds.
Three years ago, schools across the country shut their doors and scrambled to continue student learning online, all with the goal of stopping the spread of COVID-19. This shift to remote learning had dire unintended consequences: lost learning time, chronic absenteeism, and losing students to drop out – for some groups of students far worse than others. In doing so, inequities in our public education system that were already glaring have now become far worse.
This study analyzes traditional public and charter school reopenings for the 2020-21 school year in five urban districts. We provide a rich and theoretically grounded description of how and why educational leaders made reopening decisions in each of our case districts.
This study used 2021 Household Pulse Survey data (April to July) to determine the extent adults (parents; n = 7,238) with disabilities’ households had access to educational devices and Internet access for school-aged children, including compared to nondisabled adults (n = 64,046).
This working paper uses state test score data to analyze patterns of test score recovery over the 2021-22 school year.
This article examines how federal/state-level policy guidance and local context have influenced district and school leader responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how these external/internal factors might provide a window into K-12 crisis leadership and policy sensemaking more broadly.
This report examines the transition back to in-person learning for schools in Washington D.C., measuring outcomes for the first time since the start of the pandemic, and beginning work on recovery.