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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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Elected Boards: Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them

Paul Hill

Governance reforms – those that open public education to innovation, new providers, competition, and family choice – often start with suspension of normal local politics, via mayoral or state takeovers that bypass the elected local school board.

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Little Red Caboose or Impending Derailment? Charter Schools and Common Core

Robin Lake

One jolting result from the generally sobering New York State Common Core test results was that charter schools fared worse than previously when compared to other New York public schools.

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How Governance Reforms Can Outlast the Reformers

Paul Hill

Fourth in a CRPE Blog Series on Education Governance as a Civic Enterprise Those who have done well under traditional school governance systems are frightened by the ideas of families choosing their schools, schools controlling their own budgets and staffing, and meaningful accountability structures encompassing all schools.

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Getting Beyond the Book Wars

Robin Lake

Third in a CRPE Blog Series on Education Governance as a Civic Enterprise I’m often asked how CRPE’s portfolio model differs from the vision put forth in my friend Andy Smarick’s book, The Urban School System of the Future.

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Spreading the Gospel—and the Freedoms

Paul Hill

Second in a CRPE Blog Series on Education Governance as a Civic Enterprise Educators often let me know they are passionately opposed to charter schools.

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How Will We Oversee the School Systems of the Future?

Robin Lake

First in a CRPE Blog Series on Education Governance as a Civic Enterprise Those of you who follow CRPE’s work know that we have long been a leading source of ideas about new approaches to public oversight of schools.

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New CRPE Study of Washington State Principals

Christine Campbell, Michael DeArmond

The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has received a $435,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study principals in Washington State and how they are hired and supported by the state’s school districts.

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2012 Year in Review

2012 was a very productive year at CRPE. Below is a recap of some of our more notable publications, and our webinars can be found here.

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COMMENTARY – The Sleeping Giant Awakes: To Focus on School Performance, State Departments Must Adapt

Betheny Gross

For decades, the primary function of state education agencies (SEAs) has been a passive one: to ensure compliance with a vast array of regulations and rules.

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Modernizing the State Education Agency: Different Paths Toward Performance Management

Patrick J. Murphy

This project shows how eight state education agencies have reshaped their organizations to address the challenges of improving their lowest-performing schools.

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