About the National High School Center
About Our Subcontractors
Learning Point Associates (LPA)
LPA is a nonprofit education organization with more than 20 years of direct experience empowering educators to transform student learning. LPA was chartered to perform and deliver research, evaluation, policy, development, and technical assistance to meet and address critical education issues. Today LPA's expert professional staff continues to meet the needs of education stakeholders by: delivering professional development and technical assistance services focused on results, evaluating educational programs and practices, building and implementing educational solutions using and applying the power of data and technology.
MDRC
MDRC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research organization dedicated to learning what works to improve programs and policies that affect low income families and individuals and to communicating these findings to policymakers and practitioners. For more than 30 years, MDRC has produced definitive reports on the implementation, operations, impacts, benefits, and costs of new approaches to the problems confronting public education; low-income children, families, and communities; and low-wage workers.
National Center for Educational Accountability
The National Center for Educational Accountability (NCEA) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit
organization whose founding organizations include Just for the Kids, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Education Commission of the States. The Center's mission is to promote higher student achievement by:
- Improving state data collection to improve decision making;
- Using data to improve schools by creating the Just for the Kids' School Reports to focus communities on the potential of every school;
- Conducting research on school improvement issues; and
- Identifying the practices that distinguish consistently high-performing schools from other schools.
WestEd
WestEd is a nearly 40-year-old not-for-profit national research, development, and service agency that works with education and other communities to promote excellence, achieve equity, and improve learning for children, youth and adults. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with 16 offices throughout the country, WestEd staff include some of the preeminent leaders in the field of education and human development, and its work stretches to more than 400 projects at the national, state, district, school and individual levels.
