This debut edition of Hopes, Fears, & Reality provides new data on many aspects of charter schools in the United States and examines issues and controversies surrounding reform.
The world is changing. It is long past time for public education to change as well.
Our current research centers on the changing education landscape in our post-pandemic world and how school systems can meet the ever-evolving needs of students. This includes work in innovative school solutions, responsive systems and policies, workforce innovation, community-led solutions, and the advent of AI.
This debut edition of Hopes, Fears, & Reality provides new data on many aspects of charter schools in the United States and examines issues and controversies surrounding reform.
This working paper presents a principal-agent model in the context of public schools to help explain the factors that affect district decisions about merit pay.
This brief examines small high school costs in Denver and Seattle, analyzing each layer of district expenditures in order to get a better look at the price tag for small schools in comparison to others....
This working paper examines the potential fiscal impact of charter schools in Washington State, at both the state and local levels.
This report summarizes a two-day seminar which addressed the question, “How Can Communities Do School Choice Right?” convened at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., in August 2004.
This report explores legal issues affecting the establishment and operation of small high schools in Washington State.
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.
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...
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.
This research brief summarizes the report Making Sense of Leading Schools: A Study of the School Principalship.
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