The National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education is an information resource supporting equity and educational excellence for all students. The NCBE is operated by The George Washington University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Institute for Education Policy Studies, Center for the Study of Language and Education. UEweb - UEweb offers manuals, brief articles, annotated bibliographies, reviews and summaries of outstanding publications, and conference announcements in urban education. Its mission is to link the knowledge from research with the wisdom from practice to improve teaching and learning. AEL works closely with schools, school districts, and states to develop, test, and refine practical products and processes that address needs expressed by local educators.
Resources thus developed are then available to others working on similar problems.
This directory was developed with the idea of helping those individuals and organizations across the country to make contact with each other, share resources, and form networks of support for Latino students wherever they reside. It was developed with funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement. This directory reflects the growing realization that the care and nurture of rural schools requires the involvement of a much broader community than the usual suspects. Efforts to strengthen the role of rural schools in the overall renewal of rural communities depends on expertise and insights from a variety of perspectives. Mindful of these and other issues impacting rural schools, the directory includes a variety of national associations, research and training centers, health organizations, publishers, federal programs, colleges and universities.