For decades, education researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders have advocated for a wide range of reforms to elementary school instruction. A new study of five urban school districts set out to determine how – and how well – those reforms are being implemented in the classroom.

Harvard University’s Heather Hill joins CPRE senior researcher Caroline Ebby to talk about her article “Learning Lessons From Instruction: Descriptive Results From an Observational Study of Urban Elementary Classrooms.” Hill discusses her key findings and provides some important takeaways for districts, teachers, researchers, and policymakers across the country.

Featured research: Heather C. Hill, Erica Litke and Kathleen Lynch. “Learning Lessons From Instruction: Descriptive Results From an Observational Study of Urban Elementary Classrooms.” Teachers College Record Volume 120 Number 12, 2018, p. 1-46