Welcome
About Us
The Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) is an organized research unit in the College of Education at the University of Hawai‘i.
Since 1966, CRDG has served the educational community locally, nationally, and internationally by
- conducting research and creating, evaluating, disseminating, and supporting educational programs that serve students, teachers, parents, and other educators in grades preK–12; and
- contributing to the body of professional knowledge and practice in teaching and learning, curriculum development, program dissemination and implementation, evaluation and assessment, and school improvement.
The CRDG uses the diverse Kindergarten through 12th grade student body of the University Laboratory School during the initiation, development, testing, and evaluation phases of new curricula to ensure that they are suitable for a wide range of students.
Teams in the sciences, mathematics, learning technology and evaluation have ongoing projects in various /crdgs of development. Other teams focus on evaluating educational efforts and supporting at-risk students.
- the American Educational Research
Association.
- the American Historical
Association.
- the National Science
Foundation.
- the National Science Teachers
Association.
- the American Association for State and
Local History.
- the U.S. Department of Education in "Educational Programs That Work" and "Promising Practices in Mathematics and Science Education."
Our Roots
2001
ULS became a charter school and is renamed the Education Laboratory: A Hawaiʻi New Century Public Charter School. CRDG administered the school as a laboratory for curriculum R & D.
2000
CRDG merged with the College of Education. ULS applied for charter school status.
1996
CRDG, along with other research units, reorganizes under the UH Office of the Senior Vice President for Research.
1969
The Hawaii Curriculum Center is phased out and ULS comes under a new College of Education unit known as the Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG).
1966
ULS becomes part of a new entity, the Hawaii Curriculum Center. This is a joint operation of the Hawaiʻi Department of Education and the University of Hawaiʻi to develop curriculum programs and materials for schools.
1959
Teachers College becomes the College of Education, and Hawaiʻi becomes the fiftieth state.
1948
University High School Building 2 is constructed adjacent to Building 1. The University Laboratory School (ULS) now offers a complete K-12 curriculum. Hubert Everly (later dean of the College of Education) becomes the principal.
1943
University High School Building 1 on the Metcalf Street side of Teachers College is completed.
1941-45
Punahou School, displaced by the military occupying its campus, moves into Castle Memorial Hall and other buildings, but Teachers College continues to operate.
1939-41
An elementary school (University Elementary School) is built on Metcalf Street as part of Teachers College. Construction begins on Castle Memorial Hall, a training center for kindergarten and nursery school teachers. 1895 A teacher training department is formed at Honolulu High School, located in Princess Ruth's former mansion (now Central Intermediate School).
1931
The legislature transfers the Territorial Normal and Training School to the School of Education. The School of Education is renamed Teachers College.
1930
The school moves to a new 15-acre site (once a pig farm) adjoining the University of Hawaiʻi at MÄnoa. The University's Department of Secondary Education becomes the School of Education.
1921
Benjamin Wist becomes the principal of the school.
1905
After annexation, Hawaiʻi becomes a U.S. territory. Honolulu Normal and Training School is renamed Territorial Normal and Training School, and moves to Lunalilo and Quarry streets.
1896
The teacher training department moves to Victoria and Young Streets and is renamed Honolulu Normal and Training School.