Frameworks for Literacy Education Reform

whitePaper | September 16, 2022

Spoken language* underpins literacy development and vocabulary acquisition. It is central to learning across the curriculum, including in maths.

whitePaper | September 21, 2022

Before teachers can leverage the benefits of engagement, they need to know what it is, where it comes from, and why it’s so hard to maintain as students age. Here we review the evidence, present McREL’s definition of student engagement, and provide strategies to assess and improve students’ engagement with academics and the entire school community.

whitePaper | October 6, 2022

Making education come alive and sparking curiosity is what interactive displays are all about. Today’s students engage with the world largely through screens. Dynamic, vibrant displays are intuitive to young people—they can’t help but want to touch them, explore with them, see what they have to offer. Interactive displays enable you to connect with students in their native digital language across a variety of learning environment

whitePaper | November 22, 2019

From within formal classrooms to educational games after school, technology is widely used in teaching and learning around the world. When used appropriately, technology has the power to support teachers and engage students, providing tools to create and evaluate tasks previously considered out of reach. At the Center for Universal Education (CUE) at the Brookings Institution, we are studying innovations that can rapidly improve education progress, including innovations that use education technology.

whitePaper | June 23, 2022

The way students are now taking courses has changed from before the pandemic for most who responded. Before the pandemic, more than half of respondents took courses fully in person, while only fewer than one in five students took courses fully online. Currently, only 3 percent of respondents report having courses fully in-person, whereas nearly two-thirds state that they are taking classes fully online. One third are taking a mix of online and in-person courses currently

whitePaper | June 23, 2021

Effective principals have a positive influence on student learning outcomes, as McREL’s analysis has previously found. In this new paper, we review these connections and describe updates to our Balanced Leadership for Student Learning™ professional learning program that help principals have even more impact on student success.