"A March report from Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research found little 'evidence of differences in achievement growth for schools using different elementary math textbooks and curricula.'"... Read more about Textbook Adoption Was Once About ‘Going to the Right Dinner’ With Publishers. Now EdReports is Disrupting the $8 Billion Industry by Putting Teachers in Charge

Some studies have found that schools can get substantial gains in achievement by changing textbooks. But a new analysis by the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard finds little evidence of differences in achievement gains for schools using different math textbooks.... Read more about The Education Exchange: Do Students Learn More with Better Math Textbooks?

CEPR's new research report on textbook efficacy, Learning by the Book, is featured in the following Chalkbeat news article.... Read more about The Gates Foundation is hoping better curriculum will boost student learning. A new study says, not so fast

Harvard publishes first multi-state study of textbook efficacy in the Common Core era... Read more about Study finds that curriculum alone does not improve student outcomes

CEPR-Affiliated Researcher Morgan Polikoff co-authored the following EdNext article, which investigates the impact of textbooks in California. Polikoff will continue his evaluation of textbooks through the CEPR project, National Evaluation of Curriculum Effectiveness.... Read more about Big Bang for Just a Few Bucks: The Impact of Math Textbooks in California

CEPR Faculty Director Thomas J. Kane proposes  an evaluation of textbooks and other instructional materials in the following Brookings Institution report.... Read more about Never judge a book by its cover—use student achievement instead