Curriculum and Teaching

Highlights findings of the ACT National Curriculum Survey 2016 that are particularly relevant to current education policy issues.

This report shows shows how best practice teacher professional learning and quality curriculum can be mutually reinforcing and help drive improvements in teaching and learning.

This report provides an analysis of the instructional materials used by the 30 largest school districts in the country.

A summary of policy issues raised in a research paper by Johns Hopkins’ entitled “Why Curriculum Choices Matter.”

Provides new insight on how curricula are selected in every state across the country and examines the costs of those curricula.

Describes a new vision for teaching, teachers’ roles, and the conditions needed to enable deeper learning for all students.

Study by the National Council on Teacher Quality documents and highlights problems with textbooks that are required reading in teacher preparation programs.

Summarizes new psychological and behavioral research around building motivation and shows how teachers can increase motivation by encouraging positive behaviors, improving their academic mindsets, and enhancing their sense of connectedness.

Addresses the role that teacher agency plays in creating successful professional learning opportunities.

This CCSSO and New America report spotlights examples of new and different approaches for promoting and sustaining open, relevant, and high-quality instructional materials.

Builds on several previous Babson Survey Research Group efforts exploring the role of open educational resources (OER) in higher education.

Covers the types and amounts of professional development teachers and administrators received, the textbooks they used, the online resources they found most helpful, and the alignment between Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and teacher evaluations.

Mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.

Nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

National Reports on the Development of Education submitted by countries since 1933.

Only ongoing assessment of what U.S. students know and can do in different subjects.

The Annual Reports and Information group within the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) produces several reports each year that draw from over 25 surveys by NCES and other government agencies.

Nation's largest professional employee organization committed to advancing the cause of public education.

A nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis. Research includes K-12 assessment and accountability, school reform, teachers and teaching, higher education, military education and training, worker training, and substance-abuse prevention in schools.

Agency of the federal government that establishes policy for, administers, and coordinates most federal assistance to education.

Responsible for coordinating international cooperation in education, science, culture and communication.

Works nationally to improve learning and enrichment for disadvantaged children and foster the vitality of the arts for everyone.