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Accountability, Assessment, and Oversight

At CRPE, we study how assessment, accountability, and oversight can strengthen public education while fostering equity, innovation, and continuous improvement. Our research examines how traditional accountability frameworks can narrow teaching and constrain schools’ ability to adapt, and we explore approaches that measure what truly matters for student success—academic growth, deeper learning, and readiness for life beyond school. We also investigate how oversight can balance school autonomy with strong protections for access and quality, ensuring that all students are well served. Across this work, our goal is to inform accountability systems that uphold public trust while enabling schools to innovate and respond to the diverse needs of their communities.

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Three Ways State Education Agencies Can Proactively Drive Change
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Three Ways State Education Agencies Can Proactively Drive Change

Kunjan Narechania, Jessica Baghian

The biggest mistake most state education agencies (SEAs) make is not a matter of policy but of mindset: Too many assume their primary function is to monitor compliance with state and federal laws rather than be agents of change that materially impact the lives of students.

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A Reality Check on the Community School Dream
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A Reality Check on the Community School Dream

Paul Hill

No shortage of ideas abound about how to address post-pandemic learning loss, mental health problems and low school attendance. But the best-sounding ideas may make demands on schools and other public agencies that they often can’t meet.

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How States Can Support Ongoing Academic Recovery
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How States Can Support Ongoing Academic Recovery

Robin Lake, Travis Pillow

This piece was originally published on EdNote, the Education Commission of the States’ blog. School closures, quarantines and staffing uncertainties have contributed to the biggest math and reading declines our country has seen in more than two decades.

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Arizona Digs into Data to Help Students with Disabilities—Other States Should Follow Suit
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Arizona Digs into Data to Help Students with Disabilities—Other States Should Follow Suit

Karla Phillips-Krivickas

This commentary is a response to the Center on Reinventing Public Education’s State of the American Student project, an effort launched in fall 2022 to track and report on pandemic recovery and school reimagining efforts over the next five years.

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