CRPE partnered with Mathematica and CREDO on a rigorous analysis of online charter schools. Our paper examines how state policy shapes the online charter school landscape.
Drawing on data from five large school districts, this report reveals that the nation’s main program for educating the disadvantaged, Title I, is hampered by loopholes that prevent it from fulfilling its mission.
This working paper paper suggests how a performance-driven system would allocate funds, monitor performance, search for more productive models of instruction, and replace less effective schools and programs.
How might money be used in a more productive system? This working paper imagines a public educational system in which it is possible to link benefits received with costs borne.
This brief summarizes the report Strengthening Title I To Help High-Poverty Schools: How Title I Funds Fit Into District Allocation which argues that the nation’s main program for educating the disadvantaged, Title I, is hampered...
Study on four urban school districts experimenting with new school designs and new ways of holding schools accountable for performance by implementing a “portfolio strategy.”
This essay was written for the PIE Network 5th Annual Policy Summit, September 2011. The authors argue that state education agencies need to shift from their role of compliance monitor to performance manager—a shift most...
This guide educates the media and decision-makers about what questions to ask regarding charter school research, and provides them with information about the limits of any new research.
We will get through this (hopefully) final stage of the pandemic. But then what?
For these six schools, pandemic-era innovation demanded “know thyself”
Over the past year, we worked with six high schools in New England to learn how they’re reimagining the high school experience.