By sharing its findings with policy makers, the consortium helps shape education policies that will contribute to classroom learning. The project team conducts research on teaching and learning in this context and develops curriculum materials, teaching practices and interactive computer programs that are used throughout the nation. Researchers develop and evaluate the quality of emerging classroom and large-scale assessment practices and disseminate their findings to teachers, administrators, other educators and policy makers. These reports are disseminated to policy makers, educators, business and professional leaders, and executive and legislative staff.
PACE analyzes and disseminates papers on educational policy issues and their contexts.
A research and practice program that develops, implements, and evaluates teaching approaches to promote equal learning opportunities in classrooms where students vary significantly in terms of achievement, language proficiency, and social status. It is disseminated through the California State University's teacher education program. The Center promotes interdisciplinary research related to adolescents. The Center's aims are to delineate the needs of high-risk adolescent groups, to promote research that recognizes the strengths of community youth organizations and adolescent advocates, to affiliate with and assist organizations that are providing direct services to adolescents, and to help shape public policies affecting adolescents. This national education research center, supported by the National Science Foundation and other private foundation grants, studies how teaching and learning in elementary and secondary schools are shaped by their organizational, institutional, and socio-cultural contexts.