This website is dedicated to providing you— superintendents, principals, school contacts, and teachers— with up-to-date information on the What Makes Schools Work research project. We invite you to visit as the project unfolds. From here, you can track its progress and access excerpts of the latest reports.
What Makes Schools Work will examine practices and policies that promote success in schools, classrooms, and students. During the first two years of the study, researchers surveyed principals and teachers in about 500 schools, collecting data about what they are doing to help students learn. In Spring 2009, researchers will use a new survey, asking teachers about what they teach and how they teach it. This survey offers the added benefit of sending you user-friendly reports that compare your results to state standards and assessments.
What Makes Schools Work is a project of Vanderbilt University's National Center on School Choice, in association with the Northwest Evaluation Association and Mountain Measurement. The project is sponsored by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
