Proving Ground worked with partner districts to examine the impact of a low-cost, teacher-focused behavioral intervention on student-level usage of educational software in K-8, detailed in this CEPR Working Paper.
This study shows that a SMART-designed, adaptive K–2 literacy intervention can improve reading outcomes—especially for nonresponders—when personalized print texts and apps are paired with targeted parent text-message supports.
This large-scale study finds that schools play a measurable yet modest role in shaping students’ social-emotional learning gains, emphasizing the importance of both school practices and external factors in SEL development.
This study shows that using topic-connected, rigorous texts and pairing digital gamification with family text reminders can enhance young students’ summer reading engagement and achievement.
