Education Matters, Inc., a not-for-profit, tax-exempt firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was incorporated in October 1984. For the past twenty-one years, members of the firm have conducted qualitative evaluations and applied research studies pertinent to issues of school reform, teaching, learning, and learning to teach. Members of the firm are particularly interested in pursuing studies that help improve schooling for students who are not well-served in our public schools.

Education Matters designs and implements evaluations that can be used to strengthen teaching and learning and other aspects of educational practice and school reform. To this end, our evaluations include close attention to instructional and leadership capacity-building and involve educators who work at all levels of the schools and school systems. We strive to be responsive to our funders' need for information, while keeping in mind that the primary audience for our written reports and other forms of feedback is the set of educational practitioners who are trying to improve teaching, learning, and administrative practice.

NEW from Education Matters: 

• Our final report on high school renewal in the Boston public schools is now available;
• The Harvard Education Press book "A Decade of Urban School Reform" is now available, featuring a chapter on instructional improvement in the Boston public schools by President/Senior Research Associate Barbara Neufeld;
• The new book "The State of Education Policy Research" also contains a chapter by Barbara Neufeld, concerning how Education Matters does its work and how its findings have been used by educators.