Robin Lake
Director
Robin Lake's 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.
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What’s happening with distance learning?
In March 2020, the Center on Reinventing Public Education began tracking U.S. districts’ plans for navigating school closures and distance learning. The database, which is available on CRPE’s website (www.crpe.org), draws on publicly available plans from the 30 largest districts in the country, members of the Council of the Great […] -
Preparing educators for school closings and a new learning environment
In this uncertain time and with new school system closings being announced daily, Learning Forward is bringing together experts from practice, research, and policy to discuss the impact on educators and students and to offer potential resources, insights, and ideas for continuing the strong teaching and learning that our members […]
