Center for Public Research and Leadership

CPRL's mission is to revitalize public education while reinventing professional education. We envision a world with expanded access to high-quality education for all students — particularly those of color and from low-income households.

Learn more about our work and how you can partner with us. Reach out at cprl@law.columbia.edu.

We partner with entities across the education sector to solve their most pressing equity-focused challenges by transforming how systems work – how they make decisions; define success; motivate action; support and scale high-quality services; solve problems; and define, generate, capture, share, and spread knowledge. Powered by a new operating logic and research-based practices for leading change, our teams co-produce with those inside systems policies and practices that work for students, families, educators, and communities.

We provide high-quality and affordable research, policy, and legal expertise to state departments of education, school districts, charter school organizations, philanthropies, school support organizations, non-profit organizations in public education, and other social sectors -- we've partnered with more than 250 entities to date.

We also train the next generation of leaders through our graduate program to enact this new operating logic for remaking our public institutions, starting with public education, over the long-term.

We strive to effect change not only through our direct work with systems, but by sharing our learning with leaders across the education sector.

Learn more about our work and how you can partner with us. Reach out at cprl@law.columbia.edu.