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
Can new developments in busing and transportation help schools to cut costs and become more sustainable? That’s the question that Carter Hyde and Hannah Nguyen tackle in the second part of this three-part review of recent news and research related …
Educators and education programs around the world are both developing new ways to make schooling more sustainable and creating new educational opportunities for students to learn about the world around them. To help take stock of these developments, in the …
The current narrative of education stagnancy or decline is misleading. That鈥檚 the key argument in this excerpt from a recent paper from Micheal Kirst and Victor Eliot Hau Hong Chan. To make that argument, Kirst and Chan draw on a …
In the third part of this month鈥檚 Lead the Change (LtC) interview,聽Celina German discusses her experiences researching the intersection of community-based youth leadership, after-school club affinity programming, and student activism history. German is a Ph.D. student in the Learning, Literacies, …
In the first part of this month鈥檚 Lead the Change (LtC) interview,聽Dr. Paul Campbell discusses his experiences researching educational change, leadership, and policy. Campbell is an Assistant Professor of Educational Administration and Leadership at The University of Hong Kong and …