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NAEd Issues Responses to U.S. Department of Education Regarding Redesigning IES and Promoting Patriotic Education
This week, the National Academy of Education (NAEd) submitted formal responses to two U.S. Department of Education Requests for Information (RFI)—addressing the modernization of the Institute of...
Remembering David Berliner
It is with deep sadness that we write to inform you of the passing of our esteemed colleague and fellow Academy member, Dr. David Berliner, who passed away on September 26, 2025. A towering figure...
2025 NCTE Leadership Awards
Congratulations to the exceptional educators honored with the 2025 NCTE Leadership Awards! These scholars are advancing literacy education and making transformative impacts on students and educators...
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Use of Generative AI in Assessment
Guided by the goals of creating and supporting assessments that can enhance learning for all students, this project aims to engage a broad spectrum of stakeholders in a community-wide effort to design a structured, collaborative roadmap report that will guide the ethically responsible and effective use of generative AI in learning assessments.
Implications for Education of an Integrative Synthesis of Research on Human Learning and Development
This project aims to foster a deeper understanding of the complex, dynamic processes of human learning and development. It seeks to synthesize cross-disciplinary research, create an interdisciplinary community of practice, and develop multimedia tools to engage diverse audiences. Through these efforts, this initiative highlights the embeddedness of learning and development in the ecologies of the lives of children, youth, their families and communities.
Educator Support Initiative: Evidence-Based Research for Equitable Learning Environments
The goal of this initiative is to provide evidence-based guidance to educators and policy leaders for delivering effective learning experiences that fully engage the cognitive, social-emotional, and cultural strengths and resources of all students. EAC-South and NAEd work to advise, assist, and serve public schools and districts in developing and implementing research-informed, equitable education policies and practices that ensure all students have access to high-quality, inclusive learning environments.
Evaluating and Improving Teacher Preparation Programs
Through this NAEd project, an interdisciplinary committee highlights the critical context surrounding teacher education and provides research-informed recommendations for evaluating and improving both teacher preparation programs and the larger educational and policy contexts in which these programs are situated.
Educating for Civic Reasoning and Discourse
Understanding the critical importance of equipping students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions as future problem-solvers, this NAEd initiative aims to improve students’ learning in civic reasoning and discourse by ensuring that the pedagogy, curriculum, and learning environments that they experience are informed by the best available evidence. Based on a 2021 NAEd report, the NAEd, with important practitioner partners in the field, is developing discipline-specific teacher resources to help schools and districts undertake the recommendations and insights from the NAEd report and related efforts to enhance students’ civic capacities.
Reimagining Balanced Assessment Systems
The NAEd recently released a volume reimagining balanced assessments and providing guidance to state and local educational agencies, as well as schools and teachers, regarding how to: (1) foster and maintain a culture of productive assessment use to improve ambitious and equitable teaching and learning at the classroom level; (2) design policy, professional learning, and other local systems necessary to implement balanced assessment systems; and (3) implement processes to use aggregate data to continually improve the assessment system itself to better serve all students, especially those most disenfranchised. This work was funded by Smarter Balanced/University of California Santa Cruz.
Addressing Educational Inequities in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Academy received a two-year grant from the William T. Grant Foundation to sustain and advance the NAEd’s work and commitment to addressing the educational inequities resulting from and exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Guided by an interdisciplinary committee of NAEd scholars and policy leaders, this project will provide promising intervention strategies for improving student well-being and learning outcomes for disproportionately affected historically marginalized populations.
This builds on the successful NAEd project, COVID-19 and Educational Inequities, which began in May 2020 and provided needed research-based evidence on a specific set of policy and practice challenges in areas including student well-being, reading, mathematics, assessment, and institutional change.