Related Projects

The Access Center
The mission of the Access Center is to provide technical assistance that strengthens State and local capacity to help students with disabilities effectively learn in the general education curriculum.

Assessment and Accountability Comprehensive Center (AACC)
The AACC is part of a federal technical assistance system that includes four other Content Comprehensive Centers, the Regional Education Laboratories, and research and technical assistance centers focusing on the needs of English language learners and students with disabilities.

Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
CCSSO is a nonpartisan, nationwide, nonprofit organization of public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the states, the District of Columbia, the Department of Defense Education Activity, and five U.S. extra-state jurisdictions. CCSSO provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues.

Education Policy Reform Research Institute (EPRRI)
EPRRI is a federally funded program that is dedicated to increasing our knowledge and understanding of ways that students with disabilities can be fully included in educational accountability measures.

National Alternate Assessment Center (NAAC)
NAAC is a five year project funded under the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). NAAC's objectives are:

• Bring together and build on high quality, technically sound alternate assessments.
• Demonstrate through our selected partner states high quality design and administration of all types of alternate assessments.
• Provide technical assistance through high quality dissemination practices.

National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE)
NASDSE is a not-for-profit organization established to promote and support education programs and related services for children and youth with disabilities in the United States and outlying areas. NASDSE accomplishes its goals by establishing and maintaining relations between those responsible for the development of statewide and federal special education programs and those responsible for general curriculum planning at the local, state and national levels.

National Association of State Title I Directors (NASTID)
NASTID is dedicated to improving and implementing the Title I program so that more children reach their academic potential. NASTID provides state-based educational leaders with the opportunity to work together to share ideas on effective and innovative programs, identify problems and solutions, and represent the needs of Title I families.

National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD)
The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities (NDPC-SD) supports the national implementation of provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to provide successful school outcomes for students with disabilities. NDPC-SD supports states in assisting local education agencies to increase school completion rates and decrease dropout rates among students with disabilities.

Partnership for Accessible Reading Assessment (PARA)
The Partnership for Accessible Reading Assessment is a research and development project funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) to make reading assessments more accessible for students with disabilities that affect reading.

Regional Resource and Federal Centers (RRFC)
The Federal Resource Center (RRFC), a national network of technical assistance projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)  The beneficiaries of the RRFC's services are children, youth, toddlers, and infants with disabilities, and the families and professionals who are associated with them. 

Listed below are links to each of the six Regional Resources Centers.  Each RRC participates in the NCEO hosted Inclusive Assessment and Accountability Community of Practice, and together we co-host teleconferences, seminars, and training activities each year.

Northeast Regional Resource Center (NERRC)
Mid-South Regional Resource Center (MSRRC)
Southeast Regional Resource Center (SERRC)
North Central Regional Resource Center (NCRRC)
Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center (MPRRC)
Western Regional Resource Center (WRRC)

Technology Assisted Reading Assessment (TARA)
The Technology Assisted Reading Assessment (TARA) project focuses on a program of research and development to improve reading assessments for students with visual impairments or blindness. The project examines the properties of existing assessments for these students and develops an assessment of reading with a particular focus on independent technology assisted reading.

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