Blog Archive for November 2025

For many years, our team at the Rennie Center has been talking about the need to rethink education to meet the needs of students in our rapidly evolving world. This change won’t happen overnight. For new ideas to lead to lasting progress, they must be tested, refined, and scaled in ways that reflect the needs of every community. That’s why a critical piece of rethinking education is strengthening the research and development infrastructure within public schools. For the past few years, we’ve been working with schools across the Commonwealth to do just that. The Rennie R&D Labs support schools as they test and refine new and innovative strategies with their students. Eventually, we will be able to bring these ideas to more practitioners and policymakers so that they can be scaled across schools and districts.

On November 12, 2025, Rennie Center Director of Policy Alexis Lian testified to the Massachusetts Legislature's Joint Committee on Education regarding bills H.734 and S.343, An Act fulfilling the promise of education reform.