Legal Issues and Small High Schools: Strategies to Support Innovation in Washington State
This report explores legal issues affecting the establishment and operation of small high schools in Washington State.
Brief: From Bystander to Ally: Transforming the District Human Resources Department
This research brief for the fourth report in CRPE’s leadership series looks at the behind-the-scenes work of the school district human resource department and the role it plays in implementation of reform strategies.
From Bystander to Ally: Transforming the District Human Resources Department
Based on 49 interviews with district and school personnel, the report’s aim is to identify key issues that leaders in districts elsewhere can use to begin thinking about how they might make their HR office more efficient or effective.
Administrative Costs of Education Voucher Programs
A number of states and localities are now considering creating voucher programs. This paper focuses on the administrative costs of these programs.
Making Sense of Leading Schools: A Study of the School Principalship
This report, based on in-depth interviewes with educators, looks at the daily working lives of school leaders. It then asks what this implies for policy and leadership development.
Brief: Making Sense of Leading Schools: A Study of the School Principalship
This research brief summarizes the report Making Sense of Leading Schools: A Study of the School Principalship.
An Impossible Job? The View From the Urban Superintendent’s Chair
Based on a survey and on interviews with superintendents from the nation’s largest urban districts, this study explores the working life of urban superintendents. This report is second in second in the Center’s leadership series.
From the Headlines to the Frontlines: The Teacher Shortage and its Implications for Recruitment Policy
This report suggests that even with the economic slowdown and the sense of relief from a pending teacher shortage, districts will continue to struggle to get and keep good teachers unless they make dramatic changes in the ways they recruit teachers.
Brief: An Impossible Job? The View From the Urban Superintendent’s Chair
This is the research brief for the second report in the Center’s leadership series; an examination of large-district school superintendents.
A Matter of Definition: Is There Truly a Shortage of School Principals?
This report finds that although some districts and areas are experiencing difficulties finding good school principals, there are far more candidates interested in assuming school leadership roles than there are principal vacancies to fill.