This study confirms that longitudinal changes in students’ self-reported SEL skills reflect meaningful growth that predicts future academic and behavioral outcomes, rather than mere measurement noise.
This brief describes NCRERN’s national replication network, which tests whether personalized attendance messaging—shown to reduce absenteeism in rural pilot districts—can effectively scale across rural schools nationwide.
This brief outlines NCRERN’s New York and Ohio Rural Research Network, highlighting how rural districts collaborate through a structured continuous improvement process to pilot, evaluate, and scale evidence-based interventions in attendance and
This brief explains NCRERN’s five-step continuous improvement cycle, which helps rural districts use data and rigorous testing to pilot, evaluate, and scale effective interventions collaboratively.
NCRERN is a research-practice network that partners with rural districts to test, evaluate, and scale evidence-based strategies—using a continuous improvement model—to improve student outcomes and expand research on rural education.
Learn about the logic model behind an innovative collaboration aiming to bring career opportunities to rural high schoolers.
This study shows that sustained implementation of the MORE program across grades significantly improves students’ reading comprehension by deepening and connecting their content knowledge.
This study shows that sustaining a content literacy intervention from first to second grade improves reading comprehension by building knowledge schemas that enable students to transfer learning to new, content-rich texts.
This paper outlines how classroom video can transform teacher feedback, collaboration, and professional growth, offering leaders a practical playbook for implementation.
