Early Literacy Skills

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Jan 22, 2026

Assessing the Impact of Grade Retention: A Cautionary Tale of Exclusion Restriction Violations

Reading improvements among flagged students result from added help rather than retention, exposing flaws in RD analyses and emphasizing careful evaluation of policy effects.
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Dec 16, 2025

How Public School–Based Pre-K Teachers Use and Combine Instructional Materials: Findings from the American Public School Pre-K Teacher Survey

Instructional materials are a crucial aspect of quality early childhood education. This report presents a national picture of how public school–based pre-kindergarten teachers used and combined instructional materials during the 2024–2025 school year.
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Nov 3, 2025

Writing Roots

RAND Europe and the University of Leeds are assessing Writing Roots, a whole-school, book-based writing programme developed by Literacy Tree.
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Apr 22, 2025

Translating Reading Science into Practice—Foundational Reading Instruction in Public Elementary Schools: Findings from the Spring 2024 American Instructional Resources Survey

In this report, the authors describe how state policies that promote the science of reading are associated with elementary teachers’ reading instructional practices. They also explore how these practices vary by grade taught and teacher experience.
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Jan 16, 2025

Does One Plus One Always Equal Two? Examining Complementarities in Educational Interventions

In an elementary school setting, I examine whether community-level interventions focusing on similar needs and providing resources to build capacity in high-need communities could improve outcomes by improving the effectiveness of individual-level interventions.
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Jul 25, 2024

Evaluation of the ‘Concept Cat’ teaching methodology

RAND Europe, along with partners at the University of York, has been commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to evaluate whether the Concept Cat programme can work under developer-led conditions.
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Jul 25, 2024

Evaluation of the ‘Lexia Reading Core5®’ Reading Intervention

RAND Europe has been commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) to evaluate the effectiveness of the Lexia reading intervention.
Project

Mar 10, 2023

Evaluating the scale-up of the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)

Two thirds of state-funded primary schools in England signed up to deliver NELI. RAND Europe was commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation to evaluate the implementation of NELI across schools.
Research

Feb 28, 2023

Child Cognitive Development and Parent Roles: A Preliminary Comparison of Moroccan Parents to United States and United Kingdom Benchmarks

This article describes and compares the views and behaviors of parents with children 0-6 years old from Casablanca, Morocco, the US, and the UK on early parental engagement.
Research

Nov 9, 2021

The Big Lift Evaluation: Research Findings Five Years In

The authors examine participation rates, kindergarten readiness, and third-grade outcomes of children eligible to participate in The Big Lift™, a preschool–third-grade initiative to designed to boost reading proficiency.
Research

Jul 27, 2021

Level 4 Group Triple P: Positive Parenting Programme

This report evaluates the Positive Parenting Program, targeted at parents of children aged 3 to 4 years for whom nursery staff and caregivers had concerns around language and communication or children's behavioural, emotional, or social development.
Research

May 5, 2020

The Nuffield Early Language Intervention: Evaluation Report

An evaluation of the Nuffield Early Language Intervention observed 1,156 students across 193 schools through a randomised control trial. The study found the intervention added three months progress in language skills compared to non-participants.

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Assessing the Impact of Grade Retention: A Cautionary Tale of Exclusion Restriction Violations

How Public School–Based Pre-K Teachers Use and Combine Instructional Materials: Findings from the American Public School Pre-K Teacher Survey

Writing Roots

Translating Reading Science into Practice—Foundational Reading Instruction in Public Elementary Schools: Findings from the Spring 2024 American Instructional Resources Survey

Does One Plus One Always Equal Two? Examining Complementarities in Educational Interventions

Evaluation of the ‘Concept Cat’ teaching methodology

Evaluation of the ‘Lexia Reading Core5®’ Reading Intervention

Evaluating the scale-up of the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)

Child Cognitive Development and Parent Roles: A Preliminary Comparison of Moroccan Parents to United States and United Kingdom Benchmarks

The Big Lift Evaluation: Research Findings Five Years In

Level 4 Group Triple P: Positive Parenting Programme

The Nuffield Early Language Intervention: Evaluation Report

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Assessing the Impact of Grade Retention: A Cautionary Tale of Exclusion Restriction Violations

How Public School–Based Pre-K Teachers Use and Combine Instructional Materials: Findings from the American Public School Pre-K Teacher Survey

Writing Roots

Translating Reading Science into Practice—Foundational Reading Instruction in Public Elementary Schools: Findings from the Spring 2024 American Instructional Resources Survey

Does One Plus One Always Equal Two? Examining Complementarities in Educational Interventions

Evaluation of the ‘Concept Cat’ teaching methodology

Evaluation of the ‘Lexia Reading Core5®’ Reading Intervention

Evaluating the scale-up of the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI)

Child Cognitive Development and Parent Roles: A Preliminary Comparison of Moroccan Parents to United States and United Kingdom Benchmarks

The Big Lift Evaluation: Research Findings Five Years In

Level 4 Group Triple P: Positive Parenting Programme

The Nuffield Early Language Intervention: Evaluation Report

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