On November 14, 2013, the Washington Education Innovation Forum featured Summit Public School's Jen Davis Wickens, Chief Regional Officer, Sarah Satinover, Director of Growth, and Diego Arambula, Chief Growth Officer.
Robin Lake
Director
Research:
Twitter: @RbnLake
Amazon Author Page: Robin Lake, Author
Robin Lake is director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) a non-partisan research and policy analysis organization developing transformative, evidence-based solutions for K–12 public education. Her research focuses on U.S. public school system reforms, including public school choice and charter schools; innovation and scale; portfolio management; and effective state and local public oversight practices.
Lake has authored numerous studies and provided expert testimony and technical assistance on charter schools, district-charter collaborations, and urban school reform. She is the editor of Unique Schools Serving Unique Students: Charter Schools and Children with Special Needs and editor of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools. She co-authored, with Paul Hill, Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education. She has provided invited testimonies to the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee as well as various state legislatures.
She presents regularly at conferences and summits around the United States, and has advised on charter school implementation in South Africa and the United Kingdom. Lake serves as a board member or advisor to various organizations, including the Journal of School Choice, the National Center on Special Education in Charter Schools, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, and Education Next. She was named to the summer 2016 class of the Pahara-Aspen Education Fellows Program, designed to support exceptional leaders reimagining U.S. public schools.
Lake holds a BA in International Studies and an MPA in Education and Urban Policy from the University of Washington. She currently serves as Affiliate Faculty, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, at the University of Washington Bothell.
11/2018
To Serve Every Student Well, Design for the Tails, Not the Mean
This essay explores how an education system built to meet the needs of “square pegs” could benefit all students.
11/2018
Rethinking the Traditional High School-College-Career Continuum
This essay explores the systemic changes needed to ensure student access to meaningful pathways to college prep and career training.
02/2018
Passing Notes: Learning from Efforts to Share Instructional Practices Across District-Charter Lines
This report examines recent efforts of districts and charter schools to share key instructional practices and offers recommendations for education leaders to move forward.
01/2018
The Slowdown in Bay Area Charter School Growth: Causes and Solutions
This report examines why charter school growth in the San Francisco Bay Area has slowed dramatically and offers solutions for cities nationwide to encourage the development of new high-quality schools.
11/2017
Stepping Up: How Are American Cities Delivering on the Promise of Public School Choice?
This analysis examines 18 cities offering public school choice to determine whether 1) their education systems are continuously improving, 2) all their students have equitable access to high-quality schools, and 3) their strategies...
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Date: Oct 22 2013
Where: UW Medicine South Lake Union
The Forum featured former MN State Senator Ember Reichgott Junge, author of the nation's first charter school law, and Shannon Blankenship, tfounder of Hiawatha Academies, a high-performing Minneapolis charter school.
Date: Jul 25 2013
Where: Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Washington, DC
Robin Lake joins several leading education reformers and thinkers for a lively discussion of the accountability opt-out.
Date: Jun 13 2013
Where: Invite Only
This Forum will feature leaders of New York City’s key innovation initiatives. Steven Hodas, Executive Director of Innovate NYC Schools, and Andrea Coleman, Director of iZone, will discuss the role school districts can play in promoting innovation and creating schools of the future.
Date: Apr 28 2013
Where: San Francisco, CA
Several CRPE researchers are presenting at the 2013 annual conference of the American Educational Research Association in San Francisco.
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Aug 8 2019
Robin Lake is quoted in Chalkbeat on the benefits and downsides of charter management organizations for charter schools.
Jul 10 2019
Robin Lake is quoted in The Wall Street Journal about the failing public school district in Providence.
Jul 8 2019
Drawing from our 25th Anniversary essay collection, The 74 highlights eight of the biggest ideas and proposals CRPE presented about the next era of public education.
Jul 3 2019
Paul Hill and Robin Lake are quoted in this PolitiFact article on the history of busing.
Jun 28 2019
Robin Lake is quoted in The Boston Globe about impending reforms to the Providence school district.
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Sep 4 2019
Let districts be districts, when they work. But when they don’t, Robin Lake argues, try something else.
Jul 23 2019
As a new CRPE research brief shows, homeschoolers are becoming more diverse, and so are their motivations.
Jul 3 2019
Paul Hill discusses the history of school integration and offers lessons learned about ways our school systems can better educate an increasingly diverse population.
Jun 13 2019
Journalists must take the lead in separating fact from fiction in the debate on charter schools' fiscal impacts on districts.
May 17 2019
Three new briefs from CRPE shed light on the debate.
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