Our Research – Center for Education Policy

Our Projects
 

The Civic Thinking Project

The Civic Thinking Project seeks to strengthen the relationship between public education and a thriving democracy. By identifying essential civic skills and habits of mind, as well as the curricular resources that can support those outcomes, the CTP is working to expand our collective understanding of what it means to be prepared for citizenship.

Computer Science for All Research-Practice Partnership

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the CSforALL RPP aims to ensure that an equity-centered computer science curriculum is adopted, implemented, revised, and strengthened throughout the elementary grades in the Springfield Public Schools. In partnership with district leaders and teachers, CSforALL examines the quality and effects of approaches intended to amplify and increase the rate and depth of the diffusion equity-centered CS/CT. In particular, the project focuses on the examination of collaboration and the quality and effects of teacher-led professional learning communities.

The Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment

The Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment is a partnership of eight public school districts and their local teacher unions, joined together to create a fair and effective accountability system that offers a more dynamic picture of student learning and school quality than a single standardized test. MCIEA seeks to increase achievement for all students, close prevailing opportunity gaps among subgroups, and prepare a diversity of students for college, career, and life.

The Annual Massachusetts Educator Survey

The AMES leverages a standing panel to offer insight into the experiences and perspectives of Massachusetts teachers. The AMES is run in partnership with the UMass Poll, as well as with leading national and statewide organizations.

On the Clock: Research on Teacher Time

This project seeks to identify the ways in which time shapes and constrains the work of American teachers — in their classrooms and in their personal lives. Working with educators across both Massachusetts and the US, the faculty and students involved with this project seek to make teaching more successful, more rewarding, and more sustainable.