The Center is interdisciplinary and provides research, evaluation, facilitation, and management consultation to state, national, and international agencies. The Center consults with seven state special education agencies in the Great Lakes area, Head Start sites in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, and provides technical assistance to Ohio's Quality First Preschool Initiative. The Central Ohio Center for Economic Education is a unique partnership between the College of Education, area schools and the business community. The partnership provides teachers and districts with instructional materials, curriculum design and professional development aimed at improving students' understanding of the working world. Most districts are working with the Center to improve student test performance on the Citizenship portion of the state's Proficiency Tests.
Hours are limited.
The goal is to provide civics education in all schools in Poland, to contribute to the national dialogue among Polish educators on the meaning of democratic citizenship and civics education, and to build strong linkages between American and Polish civic educators. It helps teachers learn how to use these resources, and provides hundreds of links to Internet sites for math and science education. As the nation's center for cataloguing and review of materials regarding adult, career and vocational education, the Clearinghouse helps educators, government employees, journalists and others locate research and development documents in these areas. This ERIC Clearinghouse, one of 16 in the United States, is the nation's center for science, mathematics, and environmental education at all levels. The center collects materials for teachers' use in classrooms.