POWERING THE FUTURE OF LEARNING
Tackling teaching and learning challenges that disproportionately affect Black, Latino, and students of all races experiencing poverty.
FEATURED ANNOUNCEMENTS
AERDF welcomes Auditi Chakravarty as new CEO
A former educator and longtime builder of equity-driven K-12 programs, Chakravarty is excited to extend AERDF’s momentum in our next phase.
EF+Math is pleased to release its Insights Report
Strengthening Executive Function Skills to Improve Mathematics Learning: Evidence of Promise from EF+Math’s Inclusive R&D Approach.
Join the AERDF Community “Garden” Newsletter for inclusive R&D
OUR INCLUSIVE R&D PROGRAMS
Assessment for Good
We seek to dramatically improve conditions for the social and emotional health and positive academic outcomes of learners aged 8-13, with a special focus on Black and Latinx learners.
Program Overview
We aim to double the number of Black and Latinx students and students experiencing poverty in grades 3-8 who are proficient in math, by building innovative math learning systems that strengthen executive function skills.
Reading Reimagined
We aim to unlock the greater reader in every child. Specifically, our program will focus on increasing reading fluency and comprehension for all students, particularly Black, Latino, and Native American students and those experiencing poverty.
Grow New Programs
At AERDF, we’re recruiting passionate individuals to help us grow new programs. Various opportunities exist to get involved. We invite you to explore a pathway to support our work in solving education’s most daunting challenges.
Emerging Ecosystem Map of Education R&D
We at AERDF teamed up with over 80 organizations to co-create one of the first maps of who’s innovating in education research and development right now. Are you and your organization on the map? We invite you to join.
Read more about Our Emerging Ecosystem Map on Education R&D and collaborate here.
LATEST UPDATES
Equitable Foundational Literacy Research (EFLR)
Meet Reading Reimagined’s Equitable Foundational Literacy Research Awardees
New RFP Alert
Assessment for Good (AFG), an inclusive R&D program part of the Advanced Education Research and Development Fund (AERDF), is calling all changemakers interested co-designing and co-developing formative assessment solutions that actively engage with learners, educators, and their caregivers to redefine practices that center the strengths of Black and Latinx learners.
Introducing Reading Reimagined
The Advanced Education Research & Development Fund (AERDF) announced today the launch of Reading Reimagined, the third program in its effort to accelerate progress against intractable teaching and learning challenges that disproportionately impact Black and Latino students, and PreK-12 students of all races experiencing poverty. Reading Reimagined joins Assessment for Good and EF+Math in AERDF’s Inclusive Research and Development (R&D) effort.
Are you heading to the @AERA_EdResearch Annual Meeting in Chicago? Join us on April 14 for an Inclusive Education R&D Happy Hour! Learn about our model, network with colleagues interested in ed R&D, and enjoy snacks and refreshments. RSVP 👇
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/aerdf-inclusive-education-rd-happy-hour-tickets-590474684677
Welcome to our new CEO! Auditi Chakravarty, a former educator & longtime builder of equity-driven K12 programs, will start April 3. She joins amid rising nat’l momentum for education R&D as our ed systems seek new solutions following the Covid-19 pandemic https://vimeo.com/809893687