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Center for Educator Compensation Reform
An organization that raises national awareness about alternative and effective strategies for educator compensation reform; provides technical assistance to Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grantees; and through its website, serves as an online repository for information, tools, and resources to help policymakers, state officials, and district professionals, as well as TIF grantees, design and implement educator compensation reform policies and programs.
Center for Improving Teacher Quality (CTQ)
A technical assistance center that provides support to states to improve the alignment of personnel-preparation systems within states.
Center on Personnel Studies in Special Education (COPSSE)
A research center devoted to studying issues affecting teacher quality in special education.
The IRIS Center for Faculty Enhancement
A dissemination center that provides evidence-based teaching modules to college faculty working in preservice preparation programs in an effort to ensure that general education teachers, school administrators, school nurses, and school counselors are well prepared to work with students who have disabilities and their families.
The National Center on Performance Incentives
The National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI) is a research and development center housed at the Learning Sciences Institute at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College. Through funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education the center conducts scientific research on the effects of performance incentives in education. NCPI provides a variety of publications on the topic, which provides implications for education research, policy, and practice.
The National Center on Performance Incentives
National Conference
On February 28-29, 2008, NCPI will host a conference at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College. The conference will bring together the leading researchers on performance incentives to debate the strengths and challenges of merit pay reform.
National Center for Special Education Personnel and Related Service Providers—The Personnel Center
A technical assistance center that builds state capacity to recruit, prepare, and retain highly qualified, diverse personnel for early intervention and special education programs.
The National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)
A dissemination center that offers a variety of information and resources about children and youth with disabilities through funding by the Office of Special Education Programs of the U.S. Department of Education.
U.S. Department of Education
No Child Left Behind: A Toolkit for Teachers
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Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative
Teacher Incentive Fund
Data Quality Campaign
The Data Quality Campaign encourages and supports state policymakers to improve the collection, availability, and use of data as well as to implement state longitudinal data systems.
