Research and Development Centers
The School of Education’s research and development centers play an integral and vital role in furthering the school’s mission to support and advance the quality of education and human services for the continuous development of children, youth, and adults. Recognized as national leaders in creating new research-based models of instruction, these centers are making lasting improvements in student achievement across the country and are helping to address the learning needs of the most challenged students.
Center for Summer Learning
Through its extensive research, partnership, program development, and leadership and service activities, the Center for Summer Learning contributes to the School of Education’s mission to support and advance the quality of education and human services for the continuous development of children, youths, and adults. More specifically, the center strives to create high-quality summer learning opportunities for all young people.
As the nation’s only center of research and advocacy dedicated exclusively to promoting summer learning, it is committed to expanding summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged children and youth as a strategy for closing the achievement gap. Recent center projects include:
- Training of over 2,000 summer program providers annually, impacting more thanone million children each year.
- Building awareness and public support for summer learning. An annual national Summer Learning Day and conference bring together more than 400 program providers, researchers, and policymakers from across the country.
- Influencing public policy and funding through informing policymakers and engaging stakeholders.
- Generating more than $12 million in public investment for summer programs reaching more than 16,000 children and youth.
- Conducting the nation’s first randomized, longitudinal trial of a multiyear summer program designed to prevent summer learning loss.
To learn more about the work of the Center for Summer Learning, refer to www.summerlearning.org.
Faculty
Ron Fairchild
Executive Director
410-516-6221 (phone)
rfairchild@jhu.edu (email)
Brenda McLaughlin
Deputy Director
410-516-6223 (phone)
bmclaughlin@jhu.edu (email)
Jennifer Brady
Director of Training & Management Assistance
410-516-6230 (phone)
jennifer_eden@jhu.edu (email)
Center for Research and Reform in Education
Through its extensive research, partnership, program development, and leadership and service activities, the Center for Research and Reform in Education (CRRE) contributes to the School of Education’s mission to support and advance the quality of education and human services for the continuous development of children, youths, and adults. More specifically, CRRE focuses on obtaining, analyzing and distributing the very latest educational research to bring meaningful reform to America’s under performing public schools. Recent center projects include:
- Three-year national randomized evaluation of the Success for All whole school reform programs that showed conclusive evidence of the program’s superior results in student reading performance.
- Initiation of a national, definitive, randomized evaluation comparing transitional bilingual, two-way bilingual, and English-only instruction in reading for native Spanish-speaking students.
- Three-year randomized study evaluating embedded multimedia and computer-assisted tutoring, which found improved reading outcomes for these strategies.
- Creation of the first-ever all-literature reviews of the research findings on instruction in elementary and secondary level mathematics and secondary level reading programs.
- Operation of the federally funded Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) which helps 60 high-poverty school districts in four states to make effective use of the data they collect, and to select research-proven instructional programs.
To learn more about the work of the Center for Research and Reform in Education, refer to www.education.jhu.edu/cre.
Faculty
Robert Slavin, Director and Professor
410-616-2310
rslavin@csos.jhu.edu
Margarita Calderon, Professor
915-276-1804
mecalde@aol.com
Bette Chambers, Professor
410-616-2420
mchambe9@jhu.edu
Gwen Carol Holmes, Assistant Professor
410-616-2432
gholmes4@jhu.edu
Cynthia Lake, Instructor
410-516-2300
Nancy Madden, Professor
410-616-2330
nmadden1@jhu.edu
Center for Technology in Education
The Center for Technology in Education (CTE) strives to improve the quality of life of children and youth, particularly those with special needs, through teaching, research, and leadership in the use of technology. In doing so, CTE contributes to the School of Education’s mission to support and advance the quality of education and human services for the continuous development of children, youths, and adults. Through a unique partnership, CTE combines the research and teaching resources of The Johns Hopkins University and the leadership and policy support of the Maryland State Department of Education.
Recent center projects include:
- Development of Student Compass, an easy-to-use, Web-based data collection tool for monitoring student progress to improve the learning and performance of students with disabilities in general education classes.
- Creation of more than 50 on-line professional learning communities with 10,000+ participants.
- Development of a statewide special education data system supporting data for all 24 Maryland School districts.
- Standardization and electronic formatting of the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) that must be prepared for all Maryland schoolchildren diagnosed with disabilities.
- In partnership with Maryland Public Television, reached over 50,000 Maryland educators through Thinkport, a one-stop online center for teachers and parents that provides educational resources, information, and advice.
- Creation of a series of digital learning games to enhance student learning in mathematics and reading. The Center is working with researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) to explore how scientific simulation technologies and approaches can be creatively applied to engage middle school students in project-based learning activities.
To learn more about the work of the Center for Technology in Education, refer to www.cte.jhu.edu.
Faculty
Jacqueline A. Nunn, EdD
Director, CTE/Associate Dean, School of Education
K. Lynne Harper Mainzer, EdD
Deputy Director/Assistant Professor
Ann E. (Betsy) Lowry, EdD
Associate Director/Director of Online Learning and Distance Education
John Castellani, PhD
Associate Professor