Center on Reinventing Public Education

The Center was founded in 1993 by the University of Washington's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and focuses on examining alternatives that rethink and challenge the current system of public education.
The Center on Reinventing Public Education provides a host of free publications available for downloading in PDF format and will even send you 1 copy free of charge. The site also offers recent journal and professional publications by CRPE researchers.

The "Buried Treasure" report shows how officials can focus on a few key indicators, the seven indicators, that provide "mountains of data" to help schools make decisions about how they are doing.

The 7 indicators are: student achievement, progress and the elimination of the achievement gap, student attraction, student engagement, student retention/completion, teacher attraction/retention and funding.

By focusing on essential information, these key indicators can provide a general sense of how well the system is working and lead the schools toward effectiveness.