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Projects

Projects and Research

The School of Education's Center for Research and Reform in Education focuses on obtaining, analyzing and distributing the very latest educational research to bring meaningful reform to America's underperforming public schools. Recent activities of the CRRE include:

  • Completion of a three-year national randomized evaluation of the Success for All whole school reform program that showed conclusive evidence of the program's superior results in student reading performance.
  • Initiation of a national, definitive, randomized evaluation comparing transitional bilingual, two-way bilingual, and English-only instruction in reading for native Spanish-speaking students.
  • A published review of research on language of reading instruction for English language learners, and another review on effective programs for English language learners.
  • Completion of a three-year randomized study evaluating embedded multimedia (using video clips during teacher presentations) and computer-assisted tutoring, which found improved reading outcomes for these strategies.
  • Operation of the federally-funded Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) that is working with 34 high-poverty school districts in four states to help them make effective use of the data they collect, and to select research-proven instructional programs. The center's reading and math benchmark assessments, which help schools and districts plan and assess their progress, are now online and in use in more than 300 Pennsylvania school districts.
  • Development, in conjunction with Success for All, of projects in middle school reading, elementary expository reading, elementary writing, and after-school programs.
  • Creation of the first-ever all-literature review of research findings in elementary mathematics instruction.
  • Working in project Ex-CELL (Excellence and Challenge: Expectations for Language Learners) at New York City middle and high school grades to create a common set of standards that can inform language curriculum, assessment, teacher preparation, and professional development. The two-year project is funded by the Carnegie Foundation.