Our Centers & Initiatives

• Center for Education in Small Urban Communities serves as the liaison for school-university partnerships.
• Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation & Assessment brings scholars and practitioners together around issues of cultural context in evaluation and assessment.
• The Early Childhood Collective provides research and resources for educating and raising young children.
• Education Justice Project expands higher education within American prison populations.
• Forum on the Future of Public Education disseminates credible information on key questions facing P-20 education.
• Illinois New Teacher Collaborative provides statewide leadership for promoting new teacher induction and mentoring programs.
• The National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment surveys the national landscape of higher education learning outcomes.
• Office of Community College Research & Leadership studies policies, programs, and practices designed to enhance outcomes for diverse youths and adults who seek to transition to and through college to employment.
• Office for Mathematics, Science & Technology Education enhances student achievement and teaching performance in math, science, and technology.
• University Primary School is a pre-K through fifth-grade Reggio Emilia-inspired lab school.