Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center
Service Providers
Comprehensive Centers
The Comprehensive Centers listed on this page replace the former Comprehensive Regional Assistance Centers, the Regional Technology in Education Consortia, the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education, and the Regional Mathematics and Science Education Consortia.
Regional Centers | Content Centers
Regional Centers
The purpose of the Regional Centers are to provide frontline assistance to States to help them implement NCLB and other related Federal school improvement programs and help increase State capacity to assist districts and schools meet their student achievement goals.
Alaska Comprehensive Center
Southeast Regional Resource Center
The Alaska Comprehensive Center (ACC) serves the state of Alaska.
Appalachia Region Comprehensive Center
Appalachian Educational Laboratory at Edvantia
The Appalachia Region Comprehensive Center (ARCC) serves the states of Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
California Comprehensive Center
WestEd
The California Comprehensive Center serves the state of California.
Florida and the Islands Region Comprehensive Center
Educational Testing Service
The Florida and Islands Region Comprehensive Center serves the state of Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.
Great Lakes East Region Comprehensive Center
Learning Point Associates
The Great Lakes East Regional Comprehensive Center serves the states of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio.
Great Lakes West Region Comprehensive Center
Learning Point Associates
The Great Lakes West Regional Comprehensive Center serves the states of Illinois and Wisconsin.
Mid-Atlantic Region Comprehensive Center
The George Washington University
The Mid-Atlantic Region Comprehensive Center (MACC) serves the states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia.
Mid-Continent Region Comprehensive Center
The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
The Mid-Continent Region Comprehensive Center (MC3) serves the states of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
New England Region Comprehensive Center
RMC Research Corporation
The New England Region Comprehensive Center (NECC) serves the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
New York Comprehensive Center
RMC Research Corporation
The New York Comprehensive Center serves the state of New York.
North Central Region Comprehensive Center
Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
The North Central Region Comprehensive Center serves the states of Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Ms. Kit Peixotto, Director
The Northwest Regional Comprehensive Center (NWRCC) serves the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming.
Pacific Region Comprehensive Center
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
The Pacific Region Comprehensive Center (PC) serves the state of Hawaii, and American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap), Guam, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.
Southeast Region Comprehensive Center
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
The Southeast Region Comprehensive Center serves the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina.
Southwest Region Comprehensive Center
WestEd
The Southwest Region Comprehensive Center serves the states of Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah.
Texas Comprehensive Center
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
The Texas Comprehensive Center serves the state of Texas.
Content Centers
The content centers are responsible for providing, in each of the content areas described, in-depth knowledge, expertise, and analyses to regional centers and the States served by the regional centers. Content centers disseminate knowledge on scientifically based research on effective practice and research-based products in their area of specialty and provide experts that regional centers can use in delivering technical assistance to States.
Assessment and Accountability Content Center
WestEd
The Assessment and Accountability Content Center is housed at WestEd in San Francisco, California.
National High School Center
American Institutes for Research
The National High School Center is housed at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, DC.
Innovation and Improvement Content Center
Academic Development Institute
The Innovation and Improvement Content Center is housed at the Academic Development Institute in Lincoln, Illinois.
National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (NCCTQ)
Learning Point Associates
The Teacher Quality Content Center is housed at Learning Points Associates (LPA) in Naperville, Illinois.
Center on Instruction
RMC Research Corporation
The Instruction Content Center is housed at the RMC Research Corporation in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.