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Articles by Robin Lake

Robin Lake is executive director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, part of Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.

Shockwaves & Innovations: How Nations Worldwide Are Dealing with AI in Education

Robin Lake

‘This Changes Everything’: AI Is About to Upend Teaching and Learning

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From COVID Recovery to AI Chatbots, Moving Quickly to Reinvent Education in 2023

Robin Lake

Can Districts Rise to the Challenge of New NAEP Results? Outlook’s Not So Good

Robin Lake & Paul Hill

How Are Kids with Disabilities Doing Post-COVID? Shamefully, We Still Don’t Know

Robin Lake

EXCLUSIVE: CRPE Situation Report — State of the American Student, September 2022

Robin Lake & Travis Pillow

New Dashboard Showcases Innovative Ideas in Education

Jim Cowen, Robin Lake & Chad Aldeman

A New Reform Coalition Must Fix America's COVID-Cracked Schools

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Learning Hubs: A Shovel-Ready Strategy for Spending New Federal Relief Funds

Robin Lake & Daniel Weisberg

Hygiene Theater Is Robbing Students of Learning Time

Robin Lake & Georgia Heyward

Lake: We Were About to Face Something Big. We Were Totally Unprepared — A Year Later, Looking Back at 10 Days in the Epicenter of the COVID-19 Education Crisis

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Lake: With New COVID-19 Variant, Reopening Schools in Next 100 Days May Not Be Possible. We Must Plan Accordingly, Not Put Our Heads in the Sand

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Analysis: We Reviewed the School Reopening Plans for 106 Districts Around the Country. Here’s How They Square With Reality

Robin Lake & Bree Dusseault

Lake & Cowen: What a Diverse Group of 20 School Districts Are Doing Right in Their COVID-19 Reopening Plans

Robin Lake & Jim Cowen

Analysis: As More Districts Opt for Virtual Learning in the Fall, the Senate HEALS Act Risks Being out of Touch With Public Health Reality — and Delaying Desperately Needed Funds

Bree Dusseault & Robin Lake

CRPE and Collaborative for Student Success Team Up to Create a Planning Tool to Help Districts Craft Strong Reopening Plans

Jim Cowen & Robin Lake

Analysis: Just 1 in 3 Districts Required Teachers to Deliver Instruction This Spring. They Mustn’t Be Left on Their Own Again in the Fall

Robin Lake, Betheny Gross & Alice Opalka

We’ve Surveyed 82 School Districts That Launched Remote Learning Amid the Pandemic. Here’s What Did (and Didn’t) Work This Spring — and What It Means for Next Year

Robin Lake & Bree Dusseault

Analysis: What Can We Learn From Districts That Responded Early to the Coronavirus Pandemics? Here Are 5 Takeaways

Robin Lake, Bree Dusseault & Travis Pillow

Robin Lake: Flattening the Learning Loss Curve When School Reopens Will Take Federal Leadership, State and Local Buy-in and These 4 Steps

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Analysis: Halfway Through the Last Quarter of the School Year, Remote Classes Are in Session but Attendance Plans Are Still Absent

Robin Lake & Bree Dusseault

Analysis: A Month In, Districts and Charters Make Progress on Online Instruction and Monitoring Student Progress, Lag in Grading and Attendance

Robin Lake & Bree Dusseault

Analysis: How 18 Top Charter School Networks Are Adapting to Online Education, and What Other Schools Can Learn From Them

Robin Lake & Bree Dusseault

Analysis: Schools Are Making Slow Transition From Classroom to Cloud. What 82 Districts and 18 Charter Management Organizations Are Doing

Robin Lake & Bree Dusseault

Analysis: National Database Shows States & Schools Are Stepping Up Online Learning — but Still Have a Long Way to Go. 10 Notable Trends Across 82 Districts

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Analysis: How Are Schools Shifting Student Support, Instruction and District Operations Amid Coronavirus? 5 Early Findings From New National Survey

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Lake: As Schools Shift to Virtual Learning, Educators Worry That Online Instruction Is Inequitable. But No Learning at All Is Worse

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Lake: As Coronavirus Forces Schools to Go Virtual, We Must Innovate — and Embrace Learning As We Go. How 1 Washington District at the Epicenter Is Doing Just That

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Lake: What Does It Mean to Be an Ally in Efforts to Transform Public Education? The Answers Threaten to Tear the Movement Apart

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Lake & Gross: Some Charter Schools Use Their Flexibility to Serve Special Ed Kids. Our New Report Shows How More Schools Can Do the Same

Robin Lake & Betheny Gross

Analysis: As More Diverse Circle of Parents Homeschool Their Kids, It Can Be a Living Room Laboratory for the Future of Education

Robin Lake & Travis Pillow

Lake: Districts v. Charters Is the Wrong Battle to Pick; Political Leaders Must Focus on the Right One

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Preparing Students for the Uncertain Future: Why America’s Educators Are Ready to Innovate — but Their Education Systems Are Not

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New Ideas for a New Era of Public Education: Moving Beyond a Portfolio of Schools to a Portfolio of Student Opportunities

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Lake: The Future of School Choice Isn’t About Schools at All — It’s About Empowering Students With a Wider Array of Flexible Learning Opportunities

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Lake: The Future of School Choice Isn’t About Schools at All — It’s About Empowering Students With a Wider Array of Flexible Learning Opportunities

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Reinventing America’s P-16 Continuum: As Technology Surges, We Need to Reconfigure the Traditional High School-College-Career Pipeline

Robin Lake, Georgia Heyward & Tom Coyne

Lake & Pillow: Our Schools Can’t Just Serve the ‘Round Peg’ Students. Here’s How We Can Design an Education System for the Tails, Not the Mean

Robin Lake & Travis Pillow

Robin Lake: Don’t Call Me an Education Reformer — I Don’t Know What That Means Anymore. I Do Know We Must Keep Evolving to Improve Schools

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Robin Lake: On the 25th Anniversary of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a Look at Lessons Learned & New Imperatives Ahead

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Robin Lake: Online Charters Redefine School. Now, States Must Redefine Oversight to Accommodate Them & Protect Students

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What Other Cities & School Districts Can Learn From San Antonio’s Classroom Innovations

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Robin Lake: What Do the Lessons From 2 Innovative Learning Environments Imply for System Change in Education?

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Robin Lake: What Do the Lessons From 2 Innovative Learning Environments Imply for System Change in Education?

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Robin Lake: What Does It Mean to Design a System of Learning? At Workspace Education, It’s Creating Radically Individualized Pathways for Kids

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Robin Lake: NYC Autism Charter School Solves for Complex Learners With Intense Dedication & Commitment — Personalized Learning at Its Best

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Lake & Gross: From Switzerland by Way of Colorado, a New Approach to Apprenticeships That Rethinks the Path From High School to College to Career

Robin Lake & Betheny Gross

Response: Yes, Charter Schools Inflict Some Costs on Districts. But Districts’ Financial Problems Are Far Deeper Than That

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Robin Lake: 4 Ways a Big New Study on School Districts, Finances & Charter Schools Is Misleading California Parents & Communities

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Lake: Los Angeles Doesn’t Need a Superhero Superintendent. It Needs Empowered Principals to Make Decisions for Their Schools

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Proposal: The Future of the Charter School Movement Requires a New Political Strategy

Robin Lake & Paul Hill

Robin Lake: Denver’s Storied Portfolio District Is Starting to Act Like Just Another City School System

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Lake: In a Deeply Flawed ‘Analysis,’ the Associated Press Blames Public Charter Schools for America’s Segregated Cities

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Lake & Tuchman: Disability Rights Advocates Are Fighting the Wrong Fight on School Choice

Robin Lake & Sivan Tuchman

Lake: Why Personalized Learning Will Ultimately Live or Die on Its Ability to Manage Change

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Lake: Are We Personalizing Learning for the Students Who Need It Most?

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Lake: At Last, a Court Says Kids (Like Mine) With IEPs Deserve a Top Education. But More Fights Loom Ahead

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Lake: As Charter School Growth Slows, Time to Re-examine Bureaucratic, Funding, Political Hurdles

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Robin Lake: Shameful Claim to Fame – Will Washington Become First State to Shutter Successful Schools?

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NCLB Opinion: As Congress Shifts Power to States, Time to Realize the Fight for Better Schools Is Now Up To Us

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