rlake@u.washington.edu

Robin Lake is Associate Director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, 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. Lake has authored numerous studies and technical assistance reports on charter schools. She is co-author, with Paul Hill, of Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education (Brookings Press) and editor of Unique School Serving Unique Students: Charter Schools and Children with Special Needs and the annual report, Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools.

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Robin's Publications

Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2011 Robin Lake, Betheny Gross

Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Joshua Furgeson, Brian Gill, Joshua Haimson, Paul Hill, Alexandra Killewald, Robin Lake, Moira McCullough, Ira Nichols-Barrer, Bing-ru Teh, Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz

Eliminating the Achievement Gap: A White Paper on How Charter Schools Can Help District Leaders Robin Lake, Alex Hernandez

Reforming Districts Through Choice, Autonomy, Equity, and Accountability: An Overview of the Voluntary Public School Choice Directors Meeting Betheny Gross, Robin Lake

Will Seniority-Based Layoffs Undermine School Improvement Efforts in Washington State? Robin Lake, Michael DeArmond, Cristina Sepe

New York City’s iZone Robin Lake, Betheny Gross

What have we learned in 15 years about getting high-quality charter schools? Lessons for Washington State Robin Lake

Paying for Scale: Results of a Symposium on CMO Finance Robin Lake, Allison Demeritt

The $500 Million Question Robin Lake, Kevin Hall

The National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness: Report on Interim Findings Robin Lake, Brianna Dusseault, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Paul Hill

Charter Management Organizations: Innovations, Opportunities, and Challenges - BRIEF Robin Lake, Brianna Dusseault, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Paul Hill

Unique Schools Serving Unique Students: Charter Schools and Children with Special Needs Robin Lake

Introduction: Unique Schools Serving Unique Students Robin Lake

Unique Schools Serving Unique Students: Charter Schools and Children with Special Needs - BRIEF Robin Lake

The Charter School Catch-22 Paul Hill, Robin Lake

Paul Hill: Reinventing Our Ideas About Public Education Robin Lake, Dominic Brewer

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

Marginal Impact 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