National Evaluation of Curriculum Effectiveness

"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.'" In early 2011, when Maryland and other states were...

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...

CEPR's new research report on textbook efficacy, Learning by the Book, is featured in the following Chalkbeat news article. Better curriculum was supposed to be one of the next big things in education. In 2017, Bill Gates announced his influential...

Harvard publishes first multi-state study of textbook efficacy in the Common Core era Cambridge, MA (Friday, March 1, 2019)—In recent years, education leaders have hailed curriculum choice as a low-cost way to improve student success. But in the first...

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...

CEPR Faculty Director Thomas J. Kane proposes an evaluation of textbooks and other instructional materials in the following Brookings Institution report. They say never judge a book by its cover. We need to start judging textbooks and other instructional...