Regional Focus

Europe and North America

Countries of Interest

Israel, Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya

Commitment

The Johns Hopkins University Institute for Education Policy integrates the domains of research, policy, and practice to achieve educational excellence for all of America’s students. Our work focuses on ensuring that all students have access to deep and intellectually challenging curricula; highly-effective educators; and school models that meet students’ diverse needs.

Our resources and policy recommendations include:
● Knowledge Maps that show systems whether or not their English language arts and social studies curricula adequately build students’ content knowledge.
● A Teacher Survey on Materials Use that creates a full picture of what teachers know about standards, their use of curriculum materials, and their satisfaction level with those materials.
● Learned curriculum, benchmarked to comparable systems that paints an accurate picture of academic performance in the relevant contexts and subgroups.
● School Culture 360, a research-based school survey that produces an “under the hood” analysis of behaviors and beliefs that influence student success. There are two versions: one for face-to-face learning, the other for remote instruction.
● Program Evaluations of the impact of interventions on student outcomes.

In August 2020, Johns Hopkins published this paper: Don't remediate, accelerate! Effective catch-up learning strategies – evidence from the United States.