Education and learning
For more than 50 years, SRI Education has been a leader in helping strategic partners find out what works, for whom, how, and why. We collaborate with federal, state, foundation, nonprofit, and commercial partners to improve teaching, education policies, and student learning.
Our goal: to reduce barriers and optimize outcomes for students of all ages; abilities; and racial, cultural, linguistic, and geographic backgrounds.
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Preschool Development Grants Birth-5 Technical Assistance (PDG B-5 TA) Center
The PDG B-5 TA Center delivers technical assistance to support states in building, enhancing, and expanding birth through age 5 mixed delivery systems and high-quality early childhood programs and services.
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New Generation of Educators Initiative
This study investigates a multiyear effort to ensure that the California State University teacher preparation programs are producing the teachers California K–12 school districts will need as they complete their transition to CCSS and NGSS standards.
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Ready to Learn Initiative
The Ready To Learn Initiative is producing and distributing children’s digital media content—videos, games, apps, and hands-on activities—to improve the literacy, math, and science skills of economically disadvantaged children.
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Inclusion in California Early Learning and Care
SRI conducted an efficacy study of more than 2,500 students on the benefits of online homework support for students’ mathematics learning.
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ASSISTments Efficacy & Replication Studies
Funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, SRI Education conducted an efficacy study on the benefits of online homework support for students’ mathematics learning.
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Effectiveness Study of Tools for Getting Along: Teaching Students to Problem Solve
SRI Education is examining the effectiveness of Tools for Getting Along , an evidence-based social problem-solving curriculum.
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Nevada Ready! B-3 Alignment
In 2020, SRI engaged Nevada stakeholders in an iterative process to promote alignment across standards areas, resulting in standards revisions, adoption of new standards, and next steps for further standards development.




