Advanced Education Research And Development Fund (Aerdf)

The Advanced Education Research & Development Fund (AERDF, pronounced like air-diff) is a national nonprofit R&D organization launched in 2021 that discovers breakthrough scientific inventions in PreK-12 education that transform the learning trajectory for Black and Latino students and students experiencing poverty across the nation. Our ambitious three to five year programs address major teaching and learning challenges that build on existing community-driven evidence and expertise as well as learning science to translate fundamental insights into usable knowledge, useful practices, equitable approaches and transformative tools for education practitioners and students. We are pioneering Inclusive R&D in Education while building learning solutions for the quality education students deserve—and because our teams know the science behind why these solutions work, we are confident that they can work for students nationwide. Our current Inclusive R&D programs are focused on math, formative assessment, and reading.