Scholastic combines a 360-degree view of schools and families and ongoing dialogue with educators with independent, scientific, and objective research to quantify the impact of our products and services.

Grounded in a research foundation that draws on seminal work as well as contemporary research most relevant to today’s student body, our products and services are backed by evidence from rigorous research that provides the basis on which they were created, while laying the groundwork for future studies of impact.

Scholastic Research & Validation implements high-quality, well-designed, and meticulously executed research studies—utilizing treatment and control groups, large sample sizes, and diverse demographics—reflecting our commitment to serving every child. Exploring both the statistical and practical significance of our products and services, Scholastic Research & Validation is able to identify many of the factors that can influence students’ success while accounting for the challenges and supports encountered by students and communities outside of the school day. While conducting research, we take seriously the trust that schools and families place in Scholastic to not only provide answers about best practices, but also to protect their teaching and learning time during research activities.

Teachers need clarity not just on how our products and services work, but why they do. Underlying all our work is a commitment to researching best practices to prove the impact of our offerings, along with transparent, open, and meaningful dialogue with educators. Scholastic understands the challenges inherent in teaching and continuously seeks to elevate the voices of the teaching profession at large, and we care deeply about the ease of integrating our resources into a classroom’s existing routines. We are grateful for all we learn from our teacher-partners, and we use that insight to inform our research.

We listen to what keeps teachers up at night: wonderfully diverse students who overcome both social-emotional and academic challenges that affect classroom dynamics; ongoing national conversations around the role of educators; and ever-changing standards that deeply affect day-to-day instruction. Our teacher-partners expect the best from us, and with objective evaluation of our offerings, we are able to get the most effective products and services into classrooms, backed by scientific research to best meet all students’ needs, wherever and whoever they are.

Scholastic is committed to instilling confidence in every educator by providing high-quality, evidence-based research on our robust suite of products and their underlying instructional methodology. In this context, we draw upon measurable data, our belief in educators as experts, our innate passion for elevating teacher voices, and our vast collective knowledge and experience in working directly with schools.

Our longstanding partnership with educators and families enables us to evaluate our offerings in ways that are meaningful and actionable for teachers and administrators–while remaining focused on ways to help students learn, grow, and thrive. Our classroom expertise and our focus on driving improvements, not just in student achievement but also in students’ beliefs about themselves as learners, requires a commitment to rigorous, leading-edge research through every step in our product lifecycles.

We are devoted to transparency, to partnership, and most of all, to enabling and ensuring success for the schools, students, and communities we are driven to serve.