Student360 amplifies peer-reviewed education research, advocates for evidence-based policy, and ensures every student's experience is centered in decisions that shape their future.
Curated, peer-reviewed research surfacing what works — and the systemic gaps preventing it from reaching every classroom.
Dr. Brian Donovan spent nearly a decade building a rigorous, classroom-tested curriculum showing that teaching students the true complexity of human genetic variation — how genes and environment interact, and why biological race is not supported by science — measurably reduces susceptibility to racial prejudice. His randomized controlled trials, conducted in middle and high schools across America, produced results strong enough to be published in Science in February 2024. Then, on a single day in April 2025, both of his NSF grants were terminated as part of a mass cancellation of science education awards. He and his team lost their salaries and positions at the University of Colorado. He is now preparing to apply to nursing school.
"His studies were stunningly impressive. This guy is a generational talent." — Jon Shemwell, University of Alabama
TNTP's landmark national study followed 4,000 students across five districts and found the majority of class time is spent on work below grade-level expectations. Four resources — strong assignments, strong instruction, deep engagement, and high expectations — transform outcomes when adopted together.
Integrating the science of reading, learning, and instruction into a coherent, evidence-based approach. The EAC calls for all children to be taught to read using this validated framework — not ideology-driven alternatives.
TNTP identifies five factors shaping social and economic mobility in adulthood — and shows how current schooling patterns systematically undercut opportunity for students from low-income backgrounds.
AERA is coordinating with the scientific community to resist efforts to dismantle NCES and IES — the nation's primary sources of nonpartisan education data used by researchers, policymakers, and families.
The foundational study that exposed how school systems routinely ignore variation in teacher effectiveness — and the cascade of student harm that results. Still driving state policy reform today.
Six areas where research is most needed — and most ignored — in decisions affecting students every day.
Decades of cognitive science show phonics-based instruction outperforms meaning-first approaches — yet most children are still not taught to read using this evidence.
Research consistently shows structural barriers — not aptitude — explain underrepresentation of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous students in advanced STEM coursework.
Trauma-informed care research shows 40–60% reductions in disciplinary incidents and improved academic outcomes in schools with evidence-based mental health protocols.
A highly effective teacher can add a full year of additional learning growth. Research shows teacher effectiveness varies dramatically — and current systems fail to account for it.
Behavioral economics research shows low-cost interventions — simplified FAFSA, near-peer coaching — can dramatically close college enrollment gaps for first-generation students.
Dual-language programs show cognitive and academic benefits over English-only models, yet funding and policy remain disconnected from this robust evidence base.
The path from a research finding to a student's classroom experience has five critical stages — each one a point where evidence can break through or break down.
Federal agencies collecting nonpartisan education data face proposed elimination. Without IES and NCES, researchers and policymakers lose the foundational data systems underpinning decades of education evidence.
Proposed federal changes to the System for Award Management (SAM) would impose new certification requirements threatening education research conducted through universities and nonprofits.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is the only nationally comparable measure of student achievement. Proposed cuts would eliminate the only data source tracking post-pandemic learning recovery.
Legislation to reauthorize the Institute of Education Sciences with strengthened independence provisions, ensuring federal education data remain nonpartisan and methodologically rigorous.
Advocacy for evidence-based literacy curriculum laws in the remaining states without phonics mandates. Coalition of research organizations submitting amicus briefs in support of science-aligned legislation.
Following TNTP's Widget Effect, advocacy campaigns successfully moved states to differentiate evaluation outcomes — acknowledging that teacher effectiveness varies and that variation matters for students.
Science of Reading advocacy, led by a coalition including AERA and EAC, succeeded in moving 44 states to adopt phonics-based, evidence-grounded literacy requirements since 2019.
The evidence only matters if it improves the actual experiences of real students. These voices reflect what research data show across millions of classrooms.
In 9th grade, I was still guessing at words. No one had taught me how letters actually work. I wasn't struggling — I was never taught the right way.
My AP class only had 4 students who looked like me. The research says Black students are just as capable — so why doesn't our school schedule reflect that?
After my school trained teachers on trauma-informed practices, I finally felt like a person, not a problem. My grades went up. My attendance went up. I stayed.
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