A r c h i v e d I n f o r m a t i o n
Other Research & Development Centers
The National Institute on Educational Governance, Finance, Policy-Making, and Management has also supported a number of other centers. The funding of these centers ended in 1996. These include the following:
The Finance Center's work focuses on three goals: (1) to understand more completely how the education finance system works in order to foster finance aid program policy coherence that will lead to increased student outcomes; (2) to study how finance policies can respond to the diverse needs of students, schools, postsecondary institutions, districts, and states; and (3) to focus education finance research on outcomes, program quality and productivity by studying effective management strategies in schools and postsecondary academic departments - the production units in
the system. (Staff contact: Duc-Le To)
For further information, contact:
Dr. Allan Odden
Director
CPRE Finance Center
Wisconsin Center for Education Research
1025 West Johnson Street, 7th Floor
Madison, WI 53706-1796
(608) 263-4260
Fax: (608) 263-6448
The Policy Center conducts and disseminates research focused on policies that promote the improvement of student learning. The Center focuses on: (1) policies that increase learning of students; (2) the coherence of state and local policies; and (3) the responsiveness of state and local policies to the needs of all students, schools, communities and states.
(Staff contact: Jim Fox)
For further information, contact:
Dr. Susan Fuhrman
Director
Consortium for Policy Research in Education
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania
3440 Market Street, Suite 560
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3325
(215) 573-0700
FAX: (215) 573-7914
The Center's mission is to study how organizational features of schools impact the intellectual and social competence of students. The Center focuses on changes that affect experiences of students in school; the professional life of teachers; the governance, management, and leadership of schools; and the coordination of community resources to better serve educationally disadvantaged students.
(Staff contact: Ron Anson)
For further information, contact:
Dr. Fred Newmann
Director
Center on Organization and
Restructuring of Schools
University of Wisconsin
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 263-7575
Fax: (608) 263-6448
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