News Brief
CCSSO Takes Part in Two Winning Proposals for US ED TA Centers
By Nina de las AlasThe U.S. Department of Education recently announced the awards for the five-year Comprehensive Centers program. The Comprehensive Centers program is composed of a two-tiered approach to providing technical assistance to states. Fifteen regional comprehensive centers (RCCs) provide support to directly to their constituent states while seven national content centers specialize in building state capacity and providing technical assistance to RCCs and states. The content centers are focused on the following topics:
1) standards and assessments implementation
2) great teachers and leaders
3) school turnaround
4) enhancing early learning outcomes
5) college and career readiness and success
6) building state capacity and productivity
7) innovations in learning
CCSSO is partnering with leading organizations in two of the centers. For the center on great teachers and leaders, American Institutes for Research (AIR) is the leading organization, and CCSSO and Public Impact are partners. For the center on enhancing early learning outcomes, Rutgers' National Institute of Early Education Research is the leading organization, and CCSSO and Education Development Center are partners.
For more information about the early learning outcomes center contact Tom Schultz at thomass@ccsso.org and for information about the great teachers and leaders center contact Janice Poda at janicep@ccsso.org.