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Northeast & Islands: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New York, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Vermont, & Virgin Islands

Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC), the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and WestEd are pleased to serve as the new Northeast and the Islands Regional Educational Laboratory (REL Northeast and Islands), under a five-year contract from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) beginning in March, 2006. The REL Northeast and Islands region includes the six New England States (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont), New York State, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands.

The core theme underlying the work of REL Northeast and Islands is evidence-based education. The overarching goal of our work is to help preK-16 educators, at the state, district, and school levels, increase their use of scientifically-based evidence to improve student achievement and reduce performance gaps among student groups.

By providing an independent source of scientific evidence, and by promoting and enabling its use to inform decisions about education policies and programs, REL Northeast and Islands will also "further the transformation of education into an evidence-based field, and thereby enable the nation to educate all of its students effectively."

Lab Director:
Jill E. Weber
Governing Board