Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

Information for Decision Making

Information for Decision Making covers a wide array of human service and management issues including policy analysis, research and evaluation results, technical assistance resources, promising state and local initiatives, financial and program data and legislative and regulatory guidance. These topics are communicated to policy makers, researchers, program administrators and others interested in improving results for children, families, and communities, and in effective program management and governance.