A rc h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

A major component of the Institute is the National Research and Development Center program. We currently fund three centers:

• Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk. The Center was established in 1994 as a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and Howard University. Its purpose is to build a knowledge base and carry out research, development, and dissemination of replicable strategies designed to improve the educational achievement and other important outcomes of students who are placed at risk due to inadequate institutional responses to such factors as poverty, ethnic-minority status, and non-English-speaking home background. (OERI staff contact: Ok-choon Park)
• Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence. The mission for this center is to conduct research and development to improve the academic performance of students placed at risk of educational failure due to linguistic and cultural diversity, race, poverty, and geographic isolation. Since its inception in 1996, CREDE has undertaken unique, state-of-the-art research in the areas of first- and second-language learning, and related principles of effective pedagogy. (OERI staff contact: Gil Garcia)
• National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented. This Center gives highest priority to identifying and serving high potential students who may not be identified through traditional assessment criteria, including individuals of limited English proficiency, individuals with disabilities, and individuals from economically disadvantaged groups. Since 1990, theory-based models of identification, alternative assessment, programming, evaluation, professional development, curriculum, and intelligence have been the hallmarks of their quantitative and qualitative research portfolio. (OERI staff contact: Beverly Coleman)

• Other OERI-funded Research and Development Centers