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Throughout its history, WCER has maintained a commitment to improving American education by studying varied learning environments and interventions and their effects on students. Of primary concern to this mission has been the question of how educational processes and social policy can best meet the needs of students from different cultural and ...
University Alliance; Regional research consortia: Eastern ARC (Eastern Academic Research Consortium – research consortium in eastern England) GW4 (research consortium in southwest England and Wales) Midlands Innovation (research consortium in the English Midlands) N8 Research Partnership (research consortium in northern England)
Under LaShawn's leadership, the organization began to focus increasingly on two levers for further improving education outcomes for vulnerable children: leadership development, and learning partnerships in instruction. In 2008-9, they developed new approaches and offered increased service to partners in these areas: Leading for Equity and ...
The National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) is a professional organization for college and high school partnerships offering college courses in American high schools. NACEP was established in 1999 in response to the dramatic increase in concurrent enrollment courses throughout the country.
For partnership grants, applying partnerships must consist of "one or more local educational agencies and one or more degree-granting institutions of higher education and not less than two other community organizations or other entities such as businesses, professional organizations, or state agencies" to be eligible.
In the book Bridging Literacy and Equity: The Essential Guide to Social Equity Teaching, Althier Lazar, Patricia Edwards, and Gwendolyn McMillon challenge teachers and schools to abandon deficit ways of thinking and instead embrace culturally responsive practices and social equity teaching by recognizing the diverse resources their students ...
The independent, not-for-profit organisation invests any surplus funds directly back into its programme of research to address key questions in education. Originally founded in 1946 as the Centre for Educational Research and Development in England and Wales, NFER's head office is located in Slough, with a separate regional office located in York.
Since 2005, the Extension system has collaborated in developing eXtension.org (pronounced "e-extension"). eXtension is an Internet-based learning platform where Extension professionals and citizens nationwide and beyond have 24/7 access to unbiased, research-based, peer-reviewed information from land-grant universities on a wide range of topics.