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

Adult Education & Literacy Children's Mental Health District Consulting Education Evidence & Indicators Early Childhood Education Finance Education Technology Higher Education School Reform Special Education

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

Communications & Social Marketing Research & Policy Analysis Conference Services, Technical Writing & Clearinghouse/Call Center Management Technical Assistance & Training Informatics, Web Site Development & Information Management

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

State Student Testing Computer Statistical Services

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.

Equity Analysis Organizational Performance Skills Assessment Team Performance Usability Engineering

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

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The National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI)

www.nationaltechcenter.org

• NCTI, funded by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education, seeks to provide researchers, developers, and vendors with information on technology innovation to advance the learning opportunities for children with disabilities. The Center provides resources, information, and networking opportunities to assist in the development of new tools and applications through the Center Web site, publications, conferences, information briefs, online forums, and webcasts. Two recent online services include a networking service and a reading matrix. The NCTI Networking Service allows our stakeholders to easily locate like-minded researchers, developers, and manufacturers through a comprehensive database. The NCTI Reading Matrix allows people to dynamically search for technologies that assist reading instruction, reviewing almost 40 technologies according to purpose and individual features.

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Center for Implementing Technology in Education (CITEd)

www.cited.org

• CITEd, funded by the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education, seeks to establish a cohesive, coordinated system of technical assistance to support school districts nation-wide in implementing and evaluating selected evidence-based technology practices. The Center is divided into four main service areas: Knowledge Development, Implementation Support, Evaluation, and Information Dissemination. In coordination with one another these areas are selecting and evaluating evidence-based and promising practices, providing professional development and technical assistance, creating scaling-up support networks, and developing user-friendly online tools that help communicate effective implementation practices. Our goal is to ensure that these practices are effectively integrated by teachers so that children with disabilities will have access to the general education curriculum and achieve high educational standards.

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Development of the National Education Technology Plan

• The purpose of this project is to (1) manage the development and writing process of the Secretary of Education’s national educational technology plan (as mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001), (2) manage the national review, feedback, and revision process, (3) manage the publicity and dissemination of the plan, and (4) provide other resources to support development and implementation of the plan, as appropriate.

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Design of the National Experiment of the Effectiveness of Education Technology Interventions

• In collaboration with Mathematica Policy Research and EDC’s Center for Children and Technology, the purpose of this project is to design a study or studies to meet the legislative mandate in the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 for an experiment on the conditions and practices under which educational technology is effective in increasing student academic achievement. The study design report is serving to guide the implementation of the mandated evaluation of the effectiveness of educational technology interventions, currently being conducted by Mathematica Policy Research and SRI International.

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Environmental Scan of K-12 Education Technology Initiatives

• This project will conduct an ‘environmental scan’ of the K-12 educational technology environment—that is, a high-level overview of trends, major actors and initiatives, and opportunities. The scan will be comprised of three interrelated tasks: a brief overview of trends in access to and use of technology for K-12 education, an assessment of major actors and initiatives, and potential opportunities for impact. A summary report of initiatives will be developed upon completion of the project.

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Distance Education Literature Review

• This project represented revisions to an earlier report based on an extensive review of the U.S. distance education literature across K-12, post-secondary, and professional settings from 1996 to 2003. The final report focused on defining distance education both in terms of implied delivery systems and educational contexts, evaluated its prevalence, discussed how information technologies are used to deliver distance education and how it is organized and supported, assessed its impact on the broader educational field, and identified major gaps in our knowledge.

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