March 10, 2025 | As a nonprofit education research and service organization, McREL has operated several of the U.S. Department of Education’s Regional Educational Laboratories and Comprehensive Centers. The federal administration’s recent decisions to cancel the RELs and CCs bring an end to our longstanding support of those worthy programs, but our mission-driven work continues.
March 6, 2025 | The U.S. Department of Education’s Comprehensive Center (CC) program provided state departments of education, public school systems, and ministries of education across the country and in Pacific region jurisdictions with evidence-based tools, processes, and technical assistance to help them build capacity to address their most pressing educational needs. On February 19, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education and federal administration abruptly cancelled the Comprehensive Centers program nationwide, effective immediately.
Feb. 20, 2025 | The Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs), established by Congress, have provided state departments of education and local schools and districts across the country with research, analysis, and evidence-based training and coaching programs on effective practices to increase student achievement, teacher effectiveness, and system efficiency. On February 13, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education cancelled all REL contracts, immediately stopping current work. The sudden halt of partnerships and projects has left many school improvement initiatives in limbo, prevented from fully achieving their intended benefits for students and educators.
February 2025 | In an opinion column in The Korean Herald, Professor Lim Woong asks his readers to join him in “reimagining education beyond old myths.” The column begins by setting the stage about paradigms that continue to endure even after new paradigms take hold.
Jan. 8, 2025 | McREL is pleased to announce a partnership with Education Walkthrough, a leader in K–12 classroom walkthrough software, to make McREL’s Power Walkthrough® framework and instructional observation tools available within Education Walkthrough’s software.
January 2025 | As part of the Pacific West Comprehensive Center outreach efforts, members of McREL’s staff visited with officials from the Public School System (PSS) of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI). The meeting involved discussions about the technical assistance supports the Comprehensive Center
December 2024 | A recent efficacy study conducted by McREL International of the Math Basecamp program developed by Legends of Learning found compelling data demonstrating the effectiveness of the ed-tech math program.
December 2024 | McREL’s Bryan Goodwin and Jess Nastasi co-authored an article on project-based learning for the December 2024/January 2025 issue of Educational Leadership magazine, which is now available online.
November 2024 | In his latest article in Educational Leadership magazine, McREL CEO Bryan Goodwin and McREL Chief Research and Evaluation Officer Matt Linick review findings about ways to help students more thoughtfully and skeptically engage with artificial intelligence (AI).
October 2024 | While the principle that high expectations can drive better student outcomes has been confirmed in multiple studies, a new study looking at how teacher expectations transmit to students offers fresh insights on effective teaching practices, McREL’s CEO Bryan Goodwin writes in his latest column in Educational Leadership magazine.
