Collective Capacity

Alliance member organizations are national leaders in education. They have the essential capabilities to transform educational practices and tools. They conduct research, develop quality education tools, and provide vital technical assistance and professional development services. Alliance members have extensive dissemination activities efforts directed at educators and policy makers. Many of the members also conduct experimental/quasi-experimental research, and provide policy analysis services.

Alliance members conduct work in nearly 50 topical areas spanning the education spectrum from early childhood to post-secondary education. The area in which most of the members conduct work is school reform and in areas emphasized by No Child Left Behind – teacher quality, accountability, educational standards, data-based decision making, and reading. Among the other topical areas in which members work are after-school, charter schools, curriculum, English language learners, gifted and talented, math/science, leadership, rural education, school safety, and technology.

Revenue for Alliance members totaled nearly $500 million in 2003. Collectively, they employ more than 3,100 of the nation’s best researchers, trainers, and analysts.

The reach of Alliance members extends to every school in each of the nation’s 15,000 school districts.

In recent years,  Alliance members have also provided services to over 100 foreign nations including Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Senegal, Tanzania, Thailand, Yemen, and Zambia.

Alliance members continually refine and build new capacities to help meet the needs of educators and policy makers. Among the capacity areas most frequently cited for development are experimental/quasi-experimental research and evaluation; professional development; consultative services/technical assistance; policy analysis and assessment; and evaluation.