Paul T. Hill

Paul T. Hill is the founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education and a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Economic Studies Program. More

Paul T. Hill is the founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education and a research professor at the University of Washington Bothell. His current work focuses on re-missioning states and school districts to promote school performance, choice and innovation, and finance and productivity. He leads the Portfolio School Districts Project and has built a national network of school district officials, mayors, foundations, nonprofits, and others who are pursuing the portfolio strategy. He chairs the National Charter School Research Project and its Charter School Achievement Consensus Panel. He also chaired the National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education.

Hill's books include Learning as We Go: Why School Choice Is Worth the Wait (2010), Making School Reform Work: New Partnerships for Real Change (2004), Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education (2002), It Takes A City: Getting Serious About Urban School Reform (2000), and Fixing Urban Schools (1998). He is editor (with Julian Betts) of Taking Measure of Charter Schools: Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools (2010) and Charter Schools Against the Odds (2006). He is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Economic Studies Program. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Ohio State University and a B.A. from Seattle University, all in political science.

The Paradox of Public Education

National Apr 16 2012, 12:05 PM ET

Schools are controlled by the government, but they serve specific communities with niche needs. How can education be publicly funded but privately managed? More »