Technical Assistance Network: Research Centers and Non-Profit Foundations

The BUENO Center for Multicultural Education
BUENO Center for Multicultural Education
UCB 247, School of Education
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0249
Email: Sharon.wendling@colorado.edu
Through a comprehensive range of research, training, and service projects, the BUENO Center promotes quality education with an emphasis on cultural pluralism. The Center is deeply committed to facilitating equal educational opportunities for cultural and language minority students.

Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
4646 40th Street NW
Washington DC 20016-1859
Email: info@cal.org
CAL carries out a wide range of activities to accomplish its mission of improving communication through better understanding of language and culture, which includes promoting and improving the teaching and learning of languages, identifying and solving problems related to language and culture, and serving as a resource for information and conducting research.

Center for Equity and Excellence in Education (CEEE)
The George Washington University
1555 Wilson Blvd., Suite 515
Arlington, Virginia 22209-2004
Email: ceeeinfo@ceee.gwu.edu
GW-CEEE provides evidence-based technical assistance and professional development and conducts research and evaluation studies for state education agencies, local education agencies, and various offices of the U.S. Department of Education to facilitate education reform and school improvement initiatives.

 

Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence (CREDE)
Graduate School of Education
University of California
1640 Tolman Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
Email: crede@berkeley.edu
CREDE is focused on improving the education of students whose ability to reach their potential is challenged by language or cultural barriers, race, geographic location, or practices in the classroom.

¡Colorín Colorado!
WETA
Colorín Colorado
3939 Campbell Ave
Arlington, VA 22206
Email: Contact Colorín Colorado
Colorín Colorado  is a free web-based service, funded by the American Federation of Teachers, with additional support from federal education sources, and private foundations that provides information, activities and advice for educators and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners (ELLs).

Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA)
5815 Callaghan Road
Suite 101
San Antonio, TX 78228
Email: contact@idra.org
IDRAis an independent, private non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening public schools to work for all children.

 

Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career (PARCC)  
Florida Department of Education
Turlington Building, Suite 1514
325 West Gaines Street
Email:  Holly.Edenfield@fldoe.org    

 

Rethinking Schools
1001 E. Keefe Avenue, Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53212
Email: office@rethinkingschools.org
Rethinking Schools addresses equity issues in public schools, assisting teachers, administrators and parents in reformation efforts.

Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium (SBAC)
Old Capitol Building
PO Box 47200
600 Washington St. S.E.
Olympia, WA 98504-7200
Email: chris.barron@k12.wa.us
SBAC is a collection of 31 states that have been working collaboratively since December 2009 to develop a student assessment system aligned to a common core of academic content standards to apply for a Race-to-the-Top Assessment grant.

 

Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC)
1628 16th Street, NW
3rd Floor
Washington, DC 20009-3099
Email: searac@searac.org   

 

World Class Instruction and Design Assessment (WIDA) Project
Wisconsin Center for Educational Research (WCER)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1025 W. Johnson Street, MD #23
Email: info@wida.us