Education Reform

NCREST supports restructuring efforts by documenting successful initiatives, creating reform networks to share new research findings with practitioners, and linking policy to practice. Teachers College, Columbia University.

Offering different perspectives on education reform issues, including original essays, quotations, relevant links, and suggestions for student-driven reform.

The Case Against Block Scheduling: An Educational Fad that Hurts Academic Performance.

A phonemic writing system ensuring that children read and write all words in their oral vocabularies by the first grade, and that adults use written English as easily as speech.

A radical proposal arguing that schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have many ties to wealthy corporations, should not charge their students tuition.

Campaigning for higher standards and more parental choice in UK state education. Not affiliated with any political party and funded entirely by voluntary donations.

Research reports on year-round education by the British Columbia Teacher's Federation.