Who We Are
NCREST works with educators, policymakers, community groups and other organizations to improve schools and transform education systems. Founded in 1990 by Linda Darling-Hammond and Ann Lieberman, Director leads NCREST’s current efforts help all those engaged in education to reimagine, create, and sustain more powerful and equitable learning environments. NCREST is affiliated with the Department of Curriculum and Teaching, 糖心视频.
What We Do
NCREST carries out research and development projects that address the fundamental changes in learning, teaching, curriculum, assessment, parent and community engagement, and administration that comprehensive school improvement demands. As part of the work, NCREST produces a wide range of publications and images of practice that can be used to fuel educational reform efforts and support professional learning. NCREST also shares news and research on educational change around the world via International Education News.
Featured Publication
“Instead of trying to add more skills and competencies into the curriculum or Spursuing gargantuan efforts to replace one curriculum with another, there’s a better approach—and that’s to condense the curriculum.”
Read more in Thomas Hatch’s recent article: in the December 2025 issue of Educational Leadership.
Featured Projects
What's new, what's good, and what's effective in education around the world
What are the benefits and drawbacks in using different AI-powered tools for assessment? In part three of this four-part series, Philip Seyfried, Suet Cheah, Alok Sharma, and Dana Bassynbekova highlight the differences in the key features and level of teacher …
Can new developments in assessment support more student-centered learning? In the second part of this three-part series, Adelaida Kim summarizes how AI and other technologies already offer educators new ways to generate, administer, and analyze assessments, including more student-centered and …
What effect will AI and other new technologies have on testing and assessment? In the first part of this four-part series, Adelaida Kim and Thomas Hatch provide an overview of how both large-scale tests and classroom-based assessments are changing as …
In the fourth part of this month鈥檚 Lead the Change (LtC) interview,聽Daisy Salazar-Garza discusses her firsthand experience of the inequities in the public education system and the impact this has on students, families, and communities. Salazar-Garza is a Ph.D. student …
What does it take to create more sustainable school facilities? In the third part to this series, Carter Hyde and Hannah Nguyen discuss some of the new developments in facilities and facilities management that schools across the country have implemented …