Educational Resource Collections

The Directory is intended to help you identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics.

RELs work in partnership with school districts, state departments of education, and others to use data and research to improve academic outcomes for students. Fundamentally, the mission of the RELs is to provide support for a more evidence-reliant education system.

Mission is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.

P21 serves as a catalyst to position 21st century readiness at the center of US K12 education by building collaborative partnerships among education, business, community and government leaders.

McREL International is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan education research and development corporation founded to turn knowledge about what works in education into practical guidance for educators.

The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd is dedicated to strengthening teacher development policy and practice and features recent information on teacher development including research, state and national policy and legislative initiatives, and models for effective practice.

The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.

PACE is an independent, non-partisan research center based at Stanford University, the University of California – Berkeley, and the University of Southern California PACE seeks to define and sustain a long-term strategy for comprehensive policy reform and continuous improvement in performance at all levels of California’s education system, from early childhood to post-secondary education and training.

To support California schools in creating safe and caring school environments and delivering effective instruction and services for students’ health and safety.

The California Dream Network is a statewide network of existing and emerging college campus organizations who actively address undocumented student issues and who work to create broader social change around immigration reform and access to higher education.