Who We Are
NCREST works with educators, policymakers, community groups and other organizations to improve schools and transform education systems. Founded in 1990 by Linda Darling-Hammond and Ann Lieberman, Director Thomas Hatch leads NCREST’s current efforts help all those engaged in education to reimagine, create, and sustain more powerful and equitable learning environments. NCREST is affiliated with the Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University.
What We Do
NCREST carries out research and development projects that address the fundamental changes in learning, teaching, curriculum, assessment, parent and community engagement, and administration that comprehensive school improvement demands. As part of the work, NCREST produces a wide range of publications and images of practice that can be used to fuel educational reform efforts and support professional learning. NCREST also shares news and research on educational change around the world via International Education News.
Featured Publication
“New possibilities for schooling are most likely to take off when their goals, capacity demands, and values fit the common needs, existing capabilities, and prevailing conditions in the schools and communities where they’re supposed to work” — Thomas Hatch
Read more in “ We will now resume our regular programming” from the Journal of Educational Change and The Education We Need for a Future We Can’t Predict.
Featured Projects
The Latest from International Education News
What's new, what's good, and what's effective in education around the world
Teacher Professional Development in the Post-COVID Landscape: Scanning the News for Innovations in Teachers’ Professional Learning (Part 1)
What are the possibilities for innovation in professional learning post-COVID? The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated many of the long-standing challenges within the teaching profession but simultaneously created opportunities for improvement by accelerating the use of education technology (EdTech) and encouraging stakeholders … Continue reading
Aligning research with action and reflection: The Lead the Change Interview with Jackie Pedota
In this month’s Lead the Change (LtC) interview, Jackie Pelota discusses the role of research in remdying education inequality. Pelota is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Educational Leadership and policy department at the University of Texas at Austin. The LtC … Continue reading
Lead the Change Interview with Patricia Virella, Tayeon Kim, Lauren Bailes, and Elizabeth Zumpe
This month’s Lead the Change (LtC) interview features the new leaders of the Educational Change Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association, Patricia Virella, Tayeon Kim, Lauren Bailes, and Elizabeth Zumpe. This week IEN shares excerpts from those … Continue reading
Scanning the headlines for creativity around the world: PISA Creative Thinking Assessment 2022
Can students think outside the box? That’s the question that OECD’s PISA test on creative thinking attempts to answer. This week, IEN shares a scan that pulls together the headlines from those countries where we found reports on the test … Continue reading
Schools Don’t Change, but They’re Always Changing: A Conversation with Yong Zhao on the Evolution of the Chinese Education System (Part 2)
What’s changing in the China’s education system? What might change in the future? Those are some of the questions that Thomas Hatch asked Yong Zhao about in preparation for a visit to China last month. Zhao was born in China … Continue reading