To address nationally significant problems and issues in education, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement, through its five National Institutes, supports university-based national educational research and development centers. The centers address specific topics such as early childhood development and learning, student learning and achievement , cultural and linguistic diversity and second language learning, postsecondary improvement, adult learning, and education policy. In addition, each center has collaborating partners, and many work with elementary and secondary schools as well as postsecondary institutions. Centers may be contacted directly for a catalog of their publications and services.
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Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence (CREDE) |
University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
(831) 459-3500
Fax: (831) 459-3502
Director: Roland Tharp
Web sites:
http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/ and
http://www.cal.org/crede/
OERI Contact: Gilbert N. Garcia (202) 219-2144,
National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students
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Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At-Risk (CRESPAR) |
Johns Hopkins University
Center for Social Organization of Schools (CSOS)
3003 North Charles Street, Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 516-8800
Fax: (410) 516-8890
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Howard University
2900 Van Ness Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 806-8484
Fax: (202) 806-8498
Co-directors: Robert Slavin (Johns Hopkins) and A. Wade Boykin (Howard)
Web sites:
http://scov.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/CReSPaR.html and
http://crespar.law.howard.edu/
OERI Contact: OK-Choon Park (202) 208-3951,
National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students
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Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) |
University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
301 GSE & IS Building, Box 951522
300 Charles E. Young Drive North
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1522
(310) 206-1532
Fax: (310) 825-3883
Co-directors: Eva L. Baker and Robert L. Linn
Web site:
http://cresst96.cse.ucla.edu
OERI Contact: David Sweet (202) 219-1748,
National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment
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Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) |
University of Michigan
School of Education
610 E. University Avenue, Rm 1600 SEB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1259
(734) 647-6940
Fax: (734) 763-1229
Director: Karen Wixson
Web site:
http://www.ciera.org/
OERI Contact: Anne P. Sweet (202) 219-2043
National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment
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Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (CTP) |
University of Washington
College of Education, Box 353600
203C Miller Hall
Seattle, Washington 98195
(206) 221-4114
Fax: (206) 616-6762
Director: Michael Knapp
Web site:
http://depts.washington.edu/ctpmail
OERI Contact: Barbara Lieb (202) 219-2191
National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policy-Making, and Management
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National Center for Early Development and Learning (NCEDL) |
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
CB #8185
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-8185
(919) 966-4250
Fax: (919) 966-7532
Director: Don Bailey
Web site:
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncedl/
OERI Contact: Naomi Karp (202) 219-1586,
National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education
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National Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science (NCISLA) |
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 265-6240
Fax: (608) 263-3406
Director: Thomas P. Carpenter
Web Site:
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/NCISLA/
OERI Contacts: Wanda Chambers (202) 219-2035; Ram Singh (202) 219-2025,
National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment
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National Center for Postsecondary Improvement (NCPI) |
Stanford University
School of Education, 508 CERAS
520 Galvez Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-3084
(650) 723-7724
Fax: (650) 725-3936
Director: Patricia J. Gumport
Web site:
http://ncpi.stanford.edu
OERI Contact: Gregory Henschel (202) 219-2082,
National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning
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National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL) |
Harvard Graduate School of Education
101 Nichols House, Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
(617) 495-4843
Fax: (617) 495-4811
Director: John P. Comings
Web Site:
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall
OERI Contact: Shirley Steele (202) 219-1568
National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning.
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National Center on Increasing the Effectiveness of State and Local Education Reform Efforts |
Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
3440 Market Street, Suite 560
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3325
(215) 573-0700
Fax: (215) 573-7914
Director: Susan Fuhrman
Web site:
http://www.cpre.org/index_js.htm
OERI Contact: Betty Demarest (202) 219-2217
National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policy-Making, and
Management
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National Research & Development Center on English Learning & Achievement (CELA) |
University of Albany, State University of New York
School of Education
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 442-5026
Fax: (518) 442-5933
Co-directors: Judith Langer, Arthur Applebee, and Martin Nystrand
Web site:
http://cela/albany.edu
OERI Contact: Rita Foy (202) 219-2027; Anne Sweet (202) 219-2043
National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment
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National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented (NRC/GT) |
University of Connecticut
362 Fairfield Road U-7
Storrs, CT 06269-2007
(860)486-4676
Fax: (860)486-2900
Director: Joseph S. Renzulli
Web site:
http://www.gifted.uconn.edu/nrcgt.html
OERI Contact: Beverly Coleman (202) 219-2280,
National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students