Ashley Jochim is a Research Analyst at the Center on Reinventing Public Education. Her research expertise includes performance management, state education agencies, district governance, and the politics of education policy. She is currently considering how state education agencies are organized, manage resources, and support district and school improvement, the political challenges associated with implementing the Common Core State Standards Initiative, as well as how central offices can be re-missioned to better manage school performance. Dr. Jochim has published reports on performance management practices and mayoral control in education and her work can be found in the Policy Studies Journal and Political Research Quarterly, as well as numerous edited volumes including the Handbook of School Choice and the Oxford Handbook of American Bureaucracy. In 2012, she was selected as one of a dozen Emerging Education Policy Scholars interested in narrowing the gap between research and policy. She is a regular contributor to national political science and public policy conferences. Prior to working at CRPE, she was a Graduate Fellow at the Center for American Politics and Public Policy at the University of Washington as well as a Research Analyst at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights. Dr. Jochim holds a B.A. in Political Science and Psychology and a PhD in Political Science, all from the University of Washington.