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Co-directed by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and Howard University in Washington, DC, this Center focuses on how schools, families, and community agencies can work together to ensure that students placed at risk of educational failure achieve their full potential throughout their schooling and beyond. Three themes underlie the work of the Center: ensuring success at key points in children's development and schooling; building on personal and cultural assets; and scaling up successful programs.
Telephone: Johns Hopkins University, 410-516-8808, and Howard University, 202-806-8484
Fax: Johns Hopkins University, 410-516-8890, and Howard University, 202-806-8498
WWW sites: http://scov.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/crespar.html and http://crespar.law.howard.edu/
This Center, located at the University of California at Santa Cruz, conducts research to assist the nation's population of diverse students to achieve high standards. The work is divided into five central programs: language learning; integrated reform; professional development; family, peers, school, and community; and instruction in the context of the experiences, knowledge, and values of students, families, and communities.
Telephone: 408-459-3500; Fax: 408-459-3502
WWW site: http://www.cal.org/crede/
This Center, located at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, is a collaborative effort among five universities. Work is focused on identification and programming issues for students who may not be identified as gifted and talented through traditional assessment methods. A major goal of the Center's research is focused on developing high levels of performance for all students and applying gifted education research strategies to impact total schoolwide improvement.
Telephone: 860-486-5401; Fax: 860-486-2900
WWW site:
http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~wwwgt/nrcgt.html
This grant program awards multiyear discretionary grants for research to improve the education of students placed at risk of educational failure. Grant topics are generated by investigators and must support the Institute's mission. A total of 21 grants have been awarded by this Institute since 1996. A new competition is planned for 1999.
WWW site: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/FIS/
These two-phase contracts fund research to stimulate technological innovation in the private sector, strengthen the role of small business in meeting federal research and development needs, and increase the commercial application of research results. To date, this Institute has made 11 Phase I awards for studying the feasibility of developing or adapting innovative technologies to enhance the learning and development of students placed at risk of educational failure, and 1 Phase II award for expanding on the results of and further pursuing the development of such technology.
WWW site: http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/SBIR/
The Consortium of High Performance Learning Communities focuses on strategies and procedures to initiate, support, and sustain high achievement for all students, especially those students in high-poverty schools. In partnership with schools, the contractor is developing and piloting a set of principles and self-assessment instruments, and formulating and replicating core characteristics of High Performance Learning Communities. The goal is to grow a critical mass of High Performance Learning Community schools and use their examples, models, and strategies to leverage change throughout larger communities.
Telephone: 510-450-2550
rppWWW site: http://www.rppintl.com/hplc/welcomeframe.htm
The National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students, along with the Office of Educational Research and Improvement's other research institutes and the Office of Reform Assistance and Dissemination, is co-sponsoring the Partnership for Excellence and Accountability in Teaching. This Partnership brings together crucial education stakeholders to coordinate their efforts to improve teaching effectiveness. The Partnership conducts research and dissemination activities to ensure that teachers have the capabilities, motivation, and opportunity to help all students, especially those placed at risk of educational failure, achieve challenging academic standards.
Telephone: 202-478-4597
WWW site: http://www.npeat.org
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This page was last updated December 13, 2001 (jca)