Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
Description
The Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) is a collaboration of five of the nation's top research universities (UW-Madison, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, University of Michigan, Stanford University) in an effort to improve student learning through research on education reform, policy and finance. CPRE's School Finance Research Program and Teacher Compensation Project research at UW-Madison is led by Allan Odden, CPRE Co-director. The Finance Project has undertaken a research agenda that will shed some light on the costs of school improvement and the financial capacity of schools to implement improvement strategies, and the purpose of the Teacher Compensation Project is to identify alternative salary approaches that provide strong incentives for enhancing the individual teaching capacity to teach students to high academic standards, and that reward groups of teachers for success.
Outcomes
Another example of CPRE research is a 2006 study involving Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS). The purpose of the study is to investigate principal reactions to a standards-based principal performance evaluation system, assess its effectiveness in guiding principal development and holding principals accountable for the performances the district values, and to explore the relationship between evaluation ratings and indicators of school performance.
Counties
- Dane
- Milwaukee
Partners
- Carnegie Corporation
- U.S. Department of Education- Office of Educational Research and Improvement
- National Institute on Educational Governance
- Finance
- Policymaking and Management
Web site
Leader
Allan Odden, Co-director, Professor of Educational Administration