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
In a forthcoming chapter for the Third International Handbook of Educational Change Thomas Hatch and Jonathan Beltran Alvarado describe how education leaders can create the conditions in schools to promote more student-centered learning, foster a wider range of abilities, and support students’ overall wellbeing.
Featured Projects
What's new, what's good, and what's effective in education around the world
In October’s Lead the Change (LtC) interview, Dr. Paul Garton and Dr. Larry Baranowski explore how universities extend their influence beyond their beyond physical boundaries and how improvement initiatives could contribute to community empowerment. Dr. Garton is an Assistant Professor …
In the final installment of this three-part interview, Roselyn Baronia shares her students鈥� reactions and her reflections after she introduced an oral defense into a coding lab in her AP Computer Science A (CSA) course. In part one, Baronia described …
With concerns that AI was undermining her students鈥� critical thinking, Roselyn Baronia didn鈥檛 ban it 鈥� she redesigned her assessment around it. In the second installment of this three-part interview, Baronia discusses the oral defense she created for a coding …
What do you do when virtually every activity you ask students to complete can be carried out almost entirely by AI? That鈥檚 the challenge Roselyn Baronia faces as she tries to help her students learn to code in AP Computer …
In September’s Lead the Change (LtC) interview, Dr. Jose Eos Trinidad argues that understanding educational change requires a broader understanding of how learning, development, and transformation occur across broader spaces. Dr. Trinidad is an Assistant Professor at the University of …