Project Zero is an educational research group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Project Zero's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as humanistic and scientific disciplines, at the individual and institutional levels.

The Annenberg/CPB Channel focuses on teacher professional development. It is a free satellite/Web service broadcasting 24 hours per day, 7 days per week to provide educational programming for schools, colleges, and communities. It currently reaches approximately 66,000 schools and more than 41 million households.

The Science Education Department (SED) of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics develops curricula and materials to address the needs of science teachers and students in elementary, secondary, and college science, with an emphasis on grades K-12.

The Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab aims to re-invent learning and education in a digital society by developing new technologies that expand the range of what people design and create—and what they learn in the process.

The System Blocks Project of the LLK group at the MIT Media Lab focuses on developing computationally enhanced blocks to teach systems-thinking. The System Blocks are a new physical, interactive system that makes it easier for kids to explore dynamic systems and can assist K-12 educators in the teaching of complex concepts of system dynamics and causalities.