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OERI BULLETIN - Spring 1996

OERI'S NEW NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTERS

To address nationally significant problems and issues in education, the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) supports university-based national educational research and development centers. The Office recently funded seven new centers following a nationwide grant competition. The centers were funded for fiscal years 1996 through 2000. Each center has callaborating partners. (For a listing of the partners, contact each center directly.) The new centers, plus three existing ones funded prior to 1996 are:

National Research and Development Center on English Learning and Achievement (CELA)

The Research Foundation of State University of New York
University of Albany, SUNY
Office for Research-AD 216
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
(518) 442-3510
Contact: Judith Langer
OERI Monitor: Rita Foy (202) 219-2027,
National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment

National Research and Development Center on Achievement in School Mathematics and Science

Wisconsin Center for Education Research, School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-3605
Contact: Thomas A. Romberg
OERI Monitor: Carole Lacampagne (202) 219-2064,
National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment

Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)

University of California, Los Angeles
Graduate School of Education
1339 Moore Hall
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 206-1530
Contacts: Eva L. Baker and Robert Linn
OERI Monitor: David Sweet (202) 219-1748,
National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment

National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning

The Regents of the University of California
The University of California
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
(408) 459-4114
Contact: Karen F. Reinero
OERI Monitor: Rene' Gonzalez (202) 219-2220,
National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students

National Center to Enhance Early Development and Learning

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
CB #4100
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-4100
(919) 966-4250
Contact: Don Bailey
OERI Monitor: Naomi Karp (202) 219-1586,
National Institute on Early Childhood Development and Education

National Research and Development 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, ext. 224
Contact: Susan Fuhrman
OERI Monitor: James Fox (202) 219-2234,
National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policymaking, and Management

National Center for Postsecondary Improvement

Stanford Institute for Higher Education Research
Stanford University
508 Ceras Building
Stanford, CA 94305-4125
(415) 723-7727
Contact: Patricia J. Gumport
OERI Monitor: Gregory Henschel (202) 219-2082,
National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning

National Center on Literacy

The award for this center has not yet been announced. For information, contact Carol Lacampagne (202) 219-2064, National Institute on Postsecondary Education, Libraries, and Lifelong Learning.

Already existing centers:

National Reading Research Center

University of Georgia
318 Aderhold
Athens, GA 30602-7125
(706) 542-3678
Contact: Donna Alvermann
OERI Monitor: Anne Sweet (202) 219-2079, National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum, and Assessment

Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR)

Johns Hopkins University, CSOS
3505 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 516-8800
and
Howard University
Department of Psychology
Washington, DC 20059
(202) 806-8484

Contacts: Beverly Cole-Henderson (Howard) or
John H. Hollifield (Johns Hopkins)
OERI Co-monitors: Rene' Gonzalez (202) 219-2220 and
Debra Hollinger (202) 219-2024,
National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students

National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented

University of Connecticut
362 Fairfield Road U-7
Storrs, CT 06269-2007
(203) 486-2900
Contact: Joseph S. Renzulli
OERI Monitor: Beverly E. Coleman (202) 219-2280,
National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students
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