Georgia Heyward is quoted in the Colorado Sun about the impact of a four-day school week on student performance.
Georgia Heyward
Georgia Heyward is a research analyst at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, where she has worked on the 18-city project Stepping Up and supported charter-district collaboration in Washington State. Before joining CRPE, she researched rural education and wrote program evaluations for Washington State school districts and nonprofits. Georgia started her career as a bilingual elementary teacher through the NYC Teaching Fellows program. She then worked as a teacher and administrator at a bilingual performing arts school. For three years, she was the assessment coordinator for a start-up, nonprofit college. Georgia has a BA in Liberal Arts from Evergreen State College and an MEd in Education Policy from the University of Washington.
10/2020
What Does It Take to Educate Students with Mild to Moderate Disabilities in General Education Settings? Lessons from Washington’s Public Charter Schools
This report includes in-depth case studies of five Washington State charter schools to understand their strategies for full inclusion...
06/2020
Navigating Choice: How High-Touch Supports Can Address Educational Inequity
This brief presents findings from a preliminary analysis of 10 organizations with school navigator services.
10/2019
Seizing the Opportunity: Educating Students with Disabilities in Charter Schools
This report is the first step in developing an evidence base about how charter schools meet the needs of unique learners, how they can improve in this work, and what aspects of chartering as a governance model support...
06/2019
Schools Lead the Way but the System Must Change: Rethinking Career and Technical Education
CRPE has identified 32 programs around the country that represent the variety of efforts being used to reinvent career and technical education.
06/2019
Fulfilling the Promise of School Choice by Building More Effective Supports for Families
This report focuses on the work of DC School Reform Now. Since 2011, the organization has focused on making school choice work for families in Wards 7 and 8, two underserved areas of the nation's capital...
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Aug 28 2018
Georgia Heyward discusses her research on the financial effects and student outcomes of the four-day school week.
Jul 25 2018
Georgia Heyward is quoted in this Chalkbeat article about Detroit's new public school guide, which lets parents compare district and charter school options.
May 21 2018
Georgia Heyward is quoted by NBC News on the expansion of four-day weeks in public schools.
Apr 18 2018
Georgia Heyward is interviewed by Governing on the four-day school week.
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Sep 25 2020
Are districts setting teachers up with professional learning opportunities that will allow them to navigate the pandemic successfully?
Jul 21 2020
CRPE and Public Impact are wrapping up our review of state reopening plans. If first impressions portend what’s to come, there are big reasons to be concerned.
Jun 29 2020
Four months into COVID-19, and just weeks out from the new school year, very few districts in our database report concrete expectations for the 2020-21 school year.
Jun 26 2020
Gaps in spring and summer planning can point districts to the critical issues they must attend to in the coming school year.
Apr 19 2020
States play critical roles in driving school and district responses to school closures prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined whether and how states are fulfilling that role.
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