Proven Results

Proven Results

Waterford Early Learning™ programs are continually evaluated through the efforts of the Waterford Institute, a non-profit research center founded in 1976 with the goal of providing high-quality educational models, programs, and software.

Across dozens of studies, performed by university scholars, school administrators, research associations, and Waterford Institute, the programs have been formally assessed in a variety of schools and districts of varying size, location, and socioeconomic status. The research results, both within and between studies, have been both impressively consistent and consistently impressive. In each of the studies, classrooms where Waterford programs were used outperformed comparison-group classes in most, if not all, the examined assessment measures—often by dramatically wide margins.

See how UPSTART let to measurable gains among children in reading comprehension and vocabulary.