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- America 's Promise Evaluation
America 's Promise Alliance has selected the Center for Child and Family Policy to evaluate the first phase of its new nationwide effort to deliver five “promises” to 15 million young people between 2008 and 2012. The first phase will focus on improving high school graduation rates through a series of school dropout summits. The Alliance has planned a series of 50 state-level and 50 community-level summits as the catalyst for implementing national strategies to prevent youth from dropping out of school.
As evaluator, the Center for Child and Family Policy will assess the scope and potential impact of the school dropout summits. In addition, the evaluation team will work collaboratively with the Alliance to finalize and plan for the implementation of its National Action Strategy.
- North Carolina Education Research Data Center
Established in 2000 through a partnership with the NC Department of Public Instruction, the NC Education Research Data Center stores and manages data on North Carolina 's public schools, students and teachers dating back to the mid-1990s. Data files are available to university researchers, non-profit research institutions and government agencies
- Professional Development Initiative
This initiative aims to help the state enhance its system of professional development for preK-12 teachers
- The Spencer Predoctoral Program
The Spencer Foundation Education Policy Research Training Program began in 2001 as a joint endeavor between Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Its goals are to attract doctoral fellows to research careers that focus on contemporary problems in education policy; train faculty members to use their methods to solve complex problems in education policy; and encourage interdisciplinary study of problems in education.
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