Provides services and technical assistance for students so they benefit from research-based curricula taught in safe environments.

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.

• Setting standards for quality of educational research
• Tailoring standards to the state of the field and client needs
• Linking standards to national accountability requirements for scientifically based research
• Synthesizing findings from the best (or best available) research using qualitative and meta-analysis strategies
• Producing reports tailored for the audience
• Producing technical reports that push the state-of-the art in standards setting and research syntheses
• Producing non-technical reports that summarize the research and its implications
• Identifying data sources that meet the needs of decision makers and ensuring that data are comprehensive and comparable across sources
• Creating databases and reports that allow users to easily access the data they need, including software that allow users to create specific reports they need