SERP Institute
Bridging Research, Practice, and Design in Education
The Strategic Education Research Partnership generates innovative, scalable solutions to our schools’ most pressing problems through sustained collaborations among education researchers, practitioners, and designers. We work to improve the learning and engagement of all students and to give teachers and students greater agency.
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A Snapshot of America's Schools, Tackling Student Reading Decline, The Midterm Effect
If you learned to read in school sometime in the last few decades, you probably remember this experience: sitting in class, silently counting ahead to figure out which paragraph would be yours, heart pounding as you waited for your turn to read aloud. Or maybe you remember "popcorn reading," where students randomly called on each other to continue reading, keeping everyone on edge. Perhaps you were a confident reader who found this tedious, or maybe you were a struggling reader who found this a daily source of anxiety.
Disrupting Grants, AI Cheating, Supporting English Learners
Margaret Troyer describes her experience at the TFA Summit.
When Jennifer Joynt became a principal in the South Bronx, she inherited a problem she couldn't ignore: students were arriving at her middle school reading two or more years below grade level, and the interventions available to help them weren't working.
Talking to parents about their students' reading progress can be difficult. And once students move into middle school and high school, juggling multiple teachers in a single day, communication with families can easily fall by the wayside. But it's crucially important.
Watch how the use of SERP materials has expanded throughout the nation over the last five years.
Our Funders
Abell Foundation
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Goldman Sachs Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Haan Foundation for Children
Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Dept of Education
Intel Foundation
Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Foundation
John S. and Catherine L. Reed Foundation
Koshland Foundation
Leon Lowenstein Foundation
National Academy of Sciences
National Science Foundation
Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Dept of Education
Robert Noyce Foundation
S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation
Simons Foundation
Spencer Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation