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Peabody College, the number three ranked graduate school of education in the nation, provides an optimal setting for the conduct of education research that aims to have a practical and meaningful impact on teaching and learning. NCPI benefits from the high level of expertise so prevalent throughout the college’s faculty members, as well as their commitment to high quality, rigorous research with important implications for educational practice.

The Learning Sciences Institute (LSI) is a university-wide center promoting innovative, interdisciplinary research and development in the learning sciences. Over 100 faculty investigators from five colleges and 18 departments contribute to LSI’s growing community of scholarship across the areas of learning, teaching, curriculum, and policy. LSI initiatives include a vigorous visiting scholars program, a colloquium series, support for external contracts and grants, as well as doctoral and postdoctoral programs to recruit outstanding scholars in the learning sciences.

The Peabody Center for Education Policy (PCEP) was established in 1994 at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College and strives to improve education by promoting policy, practices, and professional and public understanding of educational challenges prevalent throughout the nation. Through organized national forums and research conferences, PCEP garners the expertise of policy makers, researchers, and practitioners to advance education reform efforts in the United States.

The Peabody Professional Institutes (PPI) provide a unique opportunity for professional learning at Peabody College targeting educators and administrators from across the nation and around the world. These rigorous educational experiences are designed to provide interested education, business, and citizen leaders with an opportunity to directly interface with Peabody faculty and staff for multi-day, intensive workshops around crucial educational research findings and topics.

The Nashville Alliance for Public Education (NAPE) was established in 2002 by a group of corporate and civic leaders dedicated to improving public education in Nashville, Tennessee through broader and deeper community engagement. Working in partnership with the Metropolitan Nashville Public School Board and the Director of Schools, the Alliance identifies areas of need and impact, channeling private community resources toward programs that accelerate progress in the district’s schools.

The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit research organization providing objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world. RAND offers six decades of experience and insight from a wide range of disciplines, including statistics, psychology, economics, and other fields relevant to state and local education policy analysis. With a long history of research sponsored by government agencies, foundations, and private-sector organizations, RAND has conducted studies on a variety of pressing issues in education, including analyses of K-12 assessment and accountability, school reform, and teachers and teaching.

The University of Missouri-Columbia is the largest and oldest college in the state of Missouri and offers The Economic & Policy Analysis Research Center, housed within the Department of Economics. The research center’s primary focus is to provide expert economic analyses on a wide variety of topics, and it maintains an extensive economic, demographic, and financial database. The center’s staff and fellows have written extensively on applied microeconomic issues - including public finance, public policy and education - in order to inform a wide variety of topics for the business community, as well as local, state, and federal government agencies. The university’s Department of Economics also offers a faculty with extensive expertise, serving in editorial capacities for academic journals, and consulting for businesses and governments.

The Corporation for Public School Education K16 (cpse-K16) is a private, educational consulting firm incorporated in the state of Texas. Its mission is to improve public schools, universities and colleges through program evaluation, educational policy research, and best practice studies. In conducting its work, cpse-K16 utilizes various strategies, including experimental and quasi-experimental designs as well as quantitative and qualitative methods.