Comprehensive Center Network
National Content Centers
Nationwide, five content centers cover a spectrum of school improvement and technical assistance areas. These content centers are responsible for providing, in each of the content areas below, in-depth knowledge, expertise, and analyses to regional centers and the states served by the regional centers. Content centers disseminate knowledge on scientifically based research on effective practice and research-based products in their areas of specialty and provide expertise that regional centers can use in delivering technical assistance to states.
Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center
http://www.aacompcenter.org
Dr. Stanley N. Rabinowitz, Director
States and districts need substantial knowledge and skills to fully implement, evaluate, and improve their assessment and accountability systems in order to reach the overarching No Child Left Behind (NCLB) goal of academic proficiency for all students. WestEd and the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) joined together to form the Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center (AACC) to help states and districts reach this goal.
The Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center is housed at WestEd in San Francisco.
Center on Innovation and Improvement
http://www.centerii.org
Dr. Sam Redding, Director
The Center on Innovation and Improvement provides technical assistance for regional comprehensive centers in conjunction with their work with state departments of education and related agencies. Current technical assistance projects include Restructuring, State Evaluation of SES Providers, SES Outreach to Parents, Statewide Systems of Support, Solution Finding, and the Institute for School Improvement and Education Options.
The Center on Innovation and Improvement is housed at the Academic Development Institute in Lincoln, Illinois.
Center on Instruction
http://www.centeroninstruction.org
Ms. Angela Penfold, Director
The Center on Instruction offers information on NCLB and best practices in reading, math, science, special education, and English language learner instruction; syntheses of recent scientific research on instruction; and opportunities for professional development. In order to build the capacity of the regional comprehensive centers to meet state and local instructional needs, improve the overall quality of teaching and learning, and promote the understanding and use of evidence-based instruction, the Center on Instruction is devoted to the primacy of instruction in school improvement.
The Center on Instruction is housed at the RMC Research Corporation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
National High School Center
http://www.betterhighschools.org
Joseph R. Harris, Ph.D., Director
Millions of high school students—particularly those with disabilities, with limited proficiency in English, or from low-income backgrounds—need additional support in order to succeed. To address this challenge, the National High School Center promotes the use of research-supported approaches that help all students learn and become adequately prepared for college, work, and life. The National High School Center identifies research-supported improvement programs and tools, offers user-friendly products, and provides technical assistance services to improve secondary education.
The National High School Center is housed at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, D.C.
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center)
http://www.nctq.org/p/
Kate Walsh, President
National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) is a national resource to which the regional comprehensive centers, states, and other education stakeholders turn for strengthening the quality of teaching—especially in high-poverty, low-performing, and hard-to-staff schools—and for finding guidance in addressing specific needs, thereby ensuring highly qualified teachers are serving students with special needs.
Regional Comprehensive Centers
Sixteen regional comprehensive centers provide frontline assistance to states to help them implement NCLB and other related federal school improvement programs.
Alaska Comprehensive Center (ACC)
http://www.alaskacc.org/
Serves the state of Alaska.
Appalachia Region Comprehensive Center (ARCC)
http://www.arcc.edvantia.org/
Serves the states of Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
California Comprehensive Center
http://www.cacompcenter.org/cs/cacc/print/htdocs/cacc/home.htm
Serves the state of California.
Florida and Islands Region Comprehensive Center
http://www.ets.org/flicc/
Serves the state of Florida, Puerto Rico, and theVirgin Islands.
Great Lakes East Region Comprehensive Center
http://www.learningpt.org/greatlakeseast/
Serves the states of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.
Great Lakes West Region Comprehensive Center
http://www.learningpt.org/greatlakeswest/
Serves the states of Illinois and Wisconsin.
Mid-Atlantic Region Comprehensive Center (MACC)
http://macc.ceee.gwu.edu/
Serves the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.
Mid-Continent Region Comprehensive Center (MC3)
http://www.mc3edsupport.org/
Serves the states of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
New England Region Comprehensive Center (NECC)
http://www.necomprehensivecenter.org/
Serves the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
New York Comprehensive Center (NYCC)
http://www.nycomprehensivecenter.org/
Serves the state of New York.
North Central Region Comprehensive Center (NCCC)
http://www.mcrel.org/
Serves the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Northwest Region Comprehensive Center (NWRCC)
http://www.nwrel.org/nwrcc/
Serves the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
Pacific Region Comprehensive Center (PC)
http://www.pacificcompcenter.org/
Serves the state of Hawaii, and American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
Southeast Region Comprehensive Center
http://secc.sedl.org/
Serves the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
Texas Comprehensive Center
http://txcc.sedl.org/index.html
Serves the state of Texas.
West/Southwest Region Comprehensive Center
http://www.swcompcenter.org/cs/swcc/print/htdocs/swcc/home.htm
Serves the states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
