The What Works Clearinghouse is probably the most important educational research site because it identifies evidence-based interventions.

What Works Clearinghouse: This is the best educational website to identify evidence-based interventions. Recent reports: Middle School Math, Early Childhood Education, and Reducing Behavior Problems (Elementary).

Other Educational Research Sites - Links to Publication Sections

Alliance for Excellent Education produces a wide variety of reports, fact sheets, issue and policy briefs, and other materials Hit the Adolescent Literary link to find the excellent "Writing Next" and "Reading Next" reports.

American Institutes for Research (AIR) is one of the largest behavioral and social science research organizations in the world. The link will take you to the Education publications section.

Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR) conducts research on strategies who are at risk for a variety of reasons. Hit the "View All Technical Reports" link to view the reports with the latest at the beginning.

Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) unites researchers from seven leading research institutions to provide research on accountability, instruction and learning, school finance,
teacher quality and compensation, and other topics.

Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior (IVDB): This site has publication listings with abstracts and links to web sites to reduce school violence and destruction.

Mathematica Policy Research conducts research in many fields. This link goes to the education section, which an important recent study "Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the First Year of a Randomized Controlled Study.”

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. The link goes to the publications web page. Two important studies involve comparison of public schools to private schools and to charter schools. To receive emails on the latest research, hit the NewsFlash link at the top right to sign up.

National Center on Student Progress Monitoring disseminate information about progress monitoring practices proven to work in different academic content areas (Gr. K-5).

Rand Corporation is a large research institute. This link is to the Education section with studies listed in alphabetical order by year. Recent Reports: "Florida's Middle School Reading Coaches: What Do They Do? Are They Effective?" and "Implementing No Child Left Behind in Three States."

SRI International conducts research in education and other fields. The link is connected to the Center for Education and Human Services (CEHS) publications.