rlake@u.washington.edu
Robin Lake is Associate Director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington, where she specializes in charter school research and policy development that focuses on effective accountability policies, scale and supply, and school district use of chartering as a reform strategy.
Ms. Lake is also Executive Director of the Center’s National Charter School Research Project (NCSRP), which was established in late 2004 by a consortium of funders in an effort to improve the balance, rigor, and application of charter school research. Ms. Lake also co-directs the Inside Charter Schools project (ICS), a three-year NCSRP initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Education. ICS focuses on examining three main charter school components: instructional methods and programmatic offerings, teacher human resource management, and leadership strategies and turnover.
Ms. Lake is editor of NCSRP’s annual report, Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools. She has authored numerous studies and provided expert technical assistance reports on charter schools. Her publications include Charter Schools and Accountability in Education (Brookings 2002); Holding Charter Authorizers Accountable: Why It Is Important and How It Might Be Done (NCSRP White Paper 2006); Identifying and Replicating the “DNA” of Successful Charter Schools: Lessons from the Private Sector (NCSRP Research Brief 2007); Seeds of Change in the Big Apple: Chartering Schools in New York City (Progressive Policy Institute, 2004); and Accelerating Success: A Design Guide for Starting a New School Incubator (CRPE, 2004). Ms. Lake holds an M.A. in Public Administration from the University of Washington.
Robin's Publications
Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2009 Robin Lake
CH 1: The Charter Landscape, 2004-2009 (HFR '09) Jon Christensen, Robin Lake, Jacqueline Meijer-Irons
CH 5: Achieving the Ripple Effect: How Can Charters Prompt District Improvement? (HFR '09) Robin Lake
Overview: Can Charter Schools Become a Crossover Hit? (HFR '09) Robin Lake
Performance Management in Portfolio School Districts Robin Lake, Paul Hill
Did Bush hurt the charter movement by trying to help it? Robin Lake
Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2008 Robin Lake
Overview: Should Charter Schools Be More Different Than Alike? (HFR '08) Robin Lake
Ch. 4: New Options for Serving Special-Needs Students (HFR '08) Robin Lake, Joanne Jacobs
Schools: Look for ways to get better results for less money Marguerite Roza, Robin Lake
The High-Wire Job of Charter School Leadership Christine Campbell, Betheny Gross, Robin Lake
In the Eye of the Beholder: Charter Schools and Innovation Robin Lake
Tough Calls: Identifying and Addressing School-Level Problems Robin Lake, Meghan Squires
Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2007 Robin Lake
Ch. 1: The National Charter School Landscape in 2007 (HFR '07) Jon Christensen, Robin Lake
Identifying and Replicating the "DNA" of Successful Charter Schools: Lessons from the Private Sector Robin Lake
Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006 Robin Lake, Paul Hill
Holding Charter Authorizers Accountable: Why It Is Important and How It Might Be Done Robin Lake
Ch. 1: The Charter Schools Landscape in 2005 (HFR '05) Mary Beth Celio, Robin Lake, Lydia Rainey, Todd Ziebarth
Ch. 3: Bringing Charters to Scale (HFR '05) Robin Lake
Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 Robin Lake, Paul Hill
Chasing the Blues Away: Charter Schools Scale Up in Chicago Robin Lake, Lydia Rainey
School Districts Choosing to Charter Robin Lake
Seeds of Change in the Big Apple: Chartering Schools in New York City Robin Lake
Charters Can Close Achievement Gap Robin Lake
Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education Paul Hill, Robin Lake
The New Schools Handbook: strategic advice for successful school start-up in partnership with school district officials, staff and community members Robin Lake, Abigail Schumwinger, Jeff Petty
A Study of Charter School Accountability Paul Hill, Robin Lake, Mary Beth Celio, Christine Campbell, Paul Herdman, Katrina Bulkley
Making Standards Stick Robin Lake, Paul Hill, Sara Taggart, Maria McCarthy
Making Standards Work: Active Voices, Focused Learning Robin Lake, Paul Hill, Lauren O'Toole, Mary Beth Celio
Toward a K-12 Education Accountability System in Washington State Paul Hill, Robin Lake
Supplying a System of Charter Schools: Observations on Early Implementation of the Massachusetts Statute Marc Dean Millot, Robin Lake
So You Want to Start a Charter School? Strategic Advice for Applicants: Recommendations from an Expert Workshop Marc Dean Millot, Robin Lake
