2019

With proven impact in K-12 policy and practice, SDP awarded planning grant to support college degree completion and more Cambridge, MA (July 31, 2019)—The Strategic Data Project (SDP), an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at...

The National Center for Rural Education Research Networks will collaborate with 50 rural districts to address chronic absenteeism, college readiness, and more Cambridge, MA (July 22, 2019)—Today the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard...

Some New York rural schools are about to get an assist from Harvard University. Harvard’s new National Center for Rural Education Research Networks (NCRERN) is looking to work with 30 rural school districts in New York state, as well as another 30 in Ohio...

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...

Proving Ground Director, Bi Vuong, was interviewed on Sundial on WLRN about Proving Ground's work with Palm Beach County School District. Harvard University has been working with eight school districts across the country, one of them Palm Beach County...

The South Florida Sun Sentinel highlights the School District of Palm Beach County’s work with one of CEPR's research-practitioner partnership, Proving Ground to reduce chronic absenteeism with a multimodal messaging campaign. Palm Beach County schools...

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...

The National Center for Rural Education Research Networks will help rural schools use data for continuous improvement Cambridge, MA (February 6, 2019)—The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University has been awarded a $10 million...

Findings from the Boston Charter Research Collaborative about the impact of mindfulness in the classroom are featured in the following HGSE Usable Knowledge blog post. Not knowing the answer to a question, when you’re called on in front of the entire...