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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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Rethinking the State Role in Education

Paul Hill

States can do a lot more to promote effective schools. But what? Answering this long-neglected question is one of the next frontiers of CRPE’s work.

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State Chiefs Need To Cage-Bust, Too

Robin Lake

There is no escaping the idea that state education agencies (SEAs) need to step up their acts. Most are gigantic bureaucracies designed to administer state and federal programs and to hold school districts accountable for reporting and fiscal requirements.

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Don’t Manage Talent by Remote Control

Michael DeArmond

Leaders of portfolio districts agree that schools should be more autonomous and accountable, and that teachers should be judged and rewarded on the basis of performance.

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The Capacity Challenge: What It Takes for State Education Agencies to Support School Improvement

Ashley Jochim, Patrick J. Murphy

This study explores the primary obstacles that inhibit state education agencies from better supporting school and district improvement.

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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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