Waterford Institute is a non-profit research center founded in 1976 with the goal of providing high-quality educational models, programs, and software. A major part of the effort was the development of the Waterford Early Reading Program™, which offers a comprehensive reading curriculum for kindergarten through second grade, as well as the Waterford Early Math and Science™ program.
The program has been formally assessed in a variety of schools and districts of varying size, location, and socioeconomic status. The consistency of these research results, both within and between studies, has been 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.
