Robin Lake and Paul Hill urge the new L.A. school board to avoid repeating mistakes of the past in this Los Angeles Daily News commentary.
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Jun 1 2017
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May 27 2017
Paul Hill is quoted is this Washington Post piece on the four-day school week in Oklahoma.
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May 18 2017
Robin Lake is quoted in this Chalkbeat Colorado article on Denver Public Schools' role as both an authorizer and operator.
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May 17 2017
CRPE research director Betheny Gross is quoted in this Hechinger Report article on the challenges of studying personalized learning.
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May 17 2017
CRPE research analyst Ashley Jochim is quoted in this Chalkbeat Tennessee article on school turnaround.
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May 10 2017
Robin Lake is interviewed in this Education Next podcast on school finance.
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Apr 29 2017
Robin Lake is quoted in this Houston Chronicle article on Superintendent Richard Carranza's plan to turnaround 32 schools across Houston.
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Apr 24 2017
Paul Hill is quoted in this Education Week article on a new study by the Oklahoma Department of Education on four-day school weeks.
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Apr 17 2017
CRPE director Robin Lake is quoted on how the portfolio strategy works in this Education Week piece on 21st century school districts.
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Apr 10 2017
CRPE's district-charter collaboration convening is cited in The Seventy-Four.
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Apr 7 2017
CRPE's district-charter collaboration convening is summarized in this Education Week piece.
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Apr 4 2017
Chris Cerf, Newark Public Schools' superintendent, cites CRPE's 2015 report Measuring Up in his piece on district-charter collaboration in Newark, published in The Seventy-Four.
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Mar 31 2017
Paul Hill and Georgia Heyward's piece on the rural four-day school week is cited in this CBS MoneyWatch article.
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Mar 29 2017
CRPE director Robin Lake is quoted in The Seventy-Four on the federal administration's role in school choice.
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Mar 25 2017
CRPE director Robin Lake is quoted in this Detroit News editorial on the school board's process of choosing a superintendent.
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Mar 23 2017
CRPE director Robin Lake is quoted in this U.S. News & World Report article on how the Trump administration's school choice proposals are affecting charter school proponents.
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Mar 22 2017
CRPE founder Paul Hill is interviewed in Education Week about the rise of the rural four-day school week.
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Mar 20 2017
CRPE founder Paul Hill is interviewed in The Atlantic about the rise of the four-day school week in rural districts.
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Mar 1 2017
CRPE director Robin Lake is quoted in The New York Times on the possibility of a federal school choice program.
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Mar 1 2017
CRPE's report Bridging the District-Charter Divide is cited in this Seventy-Four piece on the politics of the LAUSD board race.
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Oct 9 2015
Changes in citywide outcomes, due to reporting error in Federal data.
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Oct 7 2015
Some bright spots, possible lessons amid flat performance and staggering inequities in 50 cities.
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May 12 2015
Report details lessons from Denver and New Orleans
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Feb 25 2015
Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim offer a solution that is brilliant for its simplicity and distinctly American sensibility: our public education system needs a constitution.
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Dec 3 2014
Survey Finds Wide Variation, Room for Improvement, and Need for More High-Quality Schools
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Jul 9 2014
New survey finds many city parents are choosing their child’s public school, but challenges remain.
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Jun 18 2014
New study provides evidence on Denver’s special education enrollment gap
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Jun 9 2014
Commissioned by Shelby County Schools, this in-depth review shows strong progress in some areas, much work needed in others
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May 28 2014
This fiscal analysis finds that early difficulties forecasting enrollment and revenue can undermine implementation of personalized-learning models that blend computer-based and teacher-led instruction.
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Apr 10 2014
CRPE has released new rankings of each portfolio school system’s progress on implementing the strategy.
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Dec 2 2016
Paul Hill's tribute to John Chubb appeared in Education Next.
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Sep 14 2016
CRPE director Robin Lake argues that school autonomy is crucial in her commentary was published in The New York Times' "Room for Debate" discussion "Is School Reform Hopeless?"
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Aug 9 2016
Ashley Jochim and Paul Hill share seven lessons learned about how reformers can best manage the politics that inevitably emerge when the portfolio strategy is implemented in this Education Next commentary.
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Jun 27 2016
Robin Lake argues that Michigan's recent public school bailout does not do enough to ensure quality district and charter schools for all children.
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May 6 2016
Paul Hill and Ashley Jochim point out the important role education reform centrists can play during times of political polarization.
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Apr 20 2016
Robin Lake was one of four national experts asked to comment on the National Association of Charter School Authorizers' 2015 annual survey.
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Apr 7 2016
In this op-ed for The Seattle Times, Robin Lake calls for Washington State education and community leaders to move past politics to help all students achieve their potential.
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Feb 29 2016
In the wake of Washington State's Supreme Court decision that charters could not receive traditional public school funding, Robin Lake's op-ed in The Seventy Four urges legislators to pass a bill that would fund charters, allowing the schools to stay open.
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Feb 12 2016
Paul Hill argues for better, targeted solutions for the unique challenges of rural schools in this guest commentary for RealClearEducation.
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Dec 25 2015
Full funding alone won't solve equity gaps in Washington schools, writes Robin Lake in an op-ed published in Tacoma's The News Tribune. The legislature must also explore how the money is allocated.