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Mid-Atlantic
Mid-Atlantic: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C.

Regional Needs

In order to identify regional priorities, REL Mid-Atlantic conducts ongoing needs assessment with its Research Alliance and Governing Board members, state and district leaders, and education stakeholder affinity groups (associations of superintendents, principals, and supervisors, education associations, resource centers, training programs and more). The process also includes reviews of extant documents, research literature, and education data from a variety of sources.

As Race to the Top grantees, the highest priorities for the five states in the mid-Atlantic region include issues of teacher and principal effectiveness, core standards and assessments, student longitudinal data systems, and early childhood education.

The following major areas of need also emerged after gathering, reviewing and discussing the needs assessment data: improving school completion and engagement, improving retention and graduation rates at HBCUs, and increasing rural student college readiness.

For more information about REL Mid-Atlantic's work in these areas, please visit https://www.relmidatlantic.org/research-alliances and https://www.relmidatlantic.org/our-work.