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COLLEGE PARK, Md - The University of Maryland offers reporters a number of resources for researching education-related stories ranging from early childhood to higher education. Along with its experts, the College of Education and School of Public Health have a number of centers and institutes (listed below) that can serve as great starting points.

The College of Education also operates the Center for Young Children which not only provides early childhood education, but a facility for training, research and observation.

If you have questions, please contact Jenniffer Manning-Scherhaufer, assistant director, External Relations at the College of Education at 301-405-0476. You can also contact Dave Ottalini in University Communications at 301-405-4076.

The Center (Department of Human Development) works to create joint research projects to study the social, cognitive, and emotional development of children. It coordinates a weekly colloquium and seminar series and hosts visiting scholars from around the world .

The Department of Measurement, Statistics and Evaluation oversees three research centers - including the Maryland Assessment Research Center for Education Success (MARCES), the Principled Assessment Design for Inquiry in Science (PADI) and the Center for Integrated Latent Variable Research (CILVR)

The center - a division of the Maryland Institute of Minority Achievement and Urban Education (MIMAUE) works to help make the expertise and research work of the College of Education more relevant to the needs of participating school systems - specifically the Prince George's County and Anne Arundel County Public School Systems.

The Maryland Institute for Minority Achievement and Urban Education is an academic association, an action-oriented collaborative, and an educational center. Its central goals are the improvement of minority achievement, the elimination of the achievement gap, and the improvement and reform of urban education. Projects range from the Bladensburg Project to Spanish classes for educators.

A collaborative effort by mathematics and mathematics education faculty at the University of Maryland, the University of Delaware, and The Pennsylvania State University. The Center currently supports studies and research of 45 doctoral and post-doctoral fellows. Funding is provided by the National Science Foundation.

The center's reseach looks at literacy from many angles. Literacy is studied as a process, to see how it develops and is learned. Research includes looking at ways to improve the teaching of literacy in the classroom as well as how best to assess and test students. The center works to improve teacher education in literacy and studies literacy learning and instruction for minority students.

This information and web site links to the six research centers within the Department of Special Education.