North Carolina Department of Public Instruction

The Center brings together experts from four research institutions and three SEAs to study high-priority issues in the area of advanced and accelerated education.

CALDER-R&R examines policies addressing teacher shortages and their impact on teachers, student learning, and equity. Two important perspectives undergird the Center's work. First is the understanding that teacher shortages are not a single phenomenon. Instead, they exist in specific subject areas (for example, science and mathematics), among teachers from specific backgrounds (for example, teachers from historically marginalized racial and ethnic backgrounds), in specific schools (for e...

The purpose of this project is to examine the effects of the pandemic on educational outcomes in North Carolina and the impact of school extension programs on school re-engagement and academic recovery. Early evidence suggests that the pandemic had substantial negative impacts on student outcomes, with disproportionate impacts on historically marginalized groups. In North Carolina, the Office of Learning Recovery and Acceleration (OLR) is using federal funding to direct a set of school exten...

In this project, the partnership will examine the implementation, impact, and cost of all components of Career and College Promise (CCP), a set of three structured dual enrollment pathways in North Carolina (College Transfer, Career and Technical Education, and Cooperative Innovative High Schools, which includes early colleges). The partnership will build the capacity of the participating state agencies to support a cross-sector research agenda; allow for an in-depth and comprehensive respon...

Elementary grade retention is a growing policy option nationwide for ensuring that students are prepared for upper elementary school and beyond. This research project will study the causal impacts of North Carolina's Read to Achieve (RtA) Program on student reading and grade retention outcomes in grades four and five.

The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) will use the US Department of Education (USED) longitudinal data system (LDS) grant to accelerate its transition to a data-driven decision-making environment primarily to help improve student learning.