About Our Research

      The power of insight, the promise of results

      The research conducted by the Kingsbury Center is informing today’s educational system, giving policymakers, researchers, and educators powerful new information to make critical decisions about how policies and practices affect students.  The result?  A smarter, more responsive education system for everyone.

      Standards & Accountability

      Working to inform national policy, the Center conducts ongoing research to explore how policies related to education reform efforts impact school systems, teachers and students.

      Teaching & Learning

      We are also researching the ways in which assessment can be used in a manner that improves teaching and instruction by providing information to educators that can help teachers improve their instructional practices and schools identify their most effective teachers.

      Educational Equity

      Kingsbury Center researchers are interested in using growth data to more accurately measure achievement gaps and better monitor the effectiveness of efforts to close them. 

      Use of Data

      Our research in this area is shedding light on ways to conduct educational experiments and quasi-experiments to evaluate schools and the effectiveness of educational interventions.