Research Centers

Campbell Collaboration has been created to prepare, maintain, and make accessible systematic reviews of studies of the effectiveness of programs in crime and justice, education, social work and social welfare, and other social and behavioral areas.

Center for Collaborative Research and Practice in Teacher Education brings together colleagues from the Graduate School of Education, across the University of Pennsylvania, and the educational community in the School District of Philadelphia whose research and practice address teacher education. A goal of the Center is to bring together people and resources to address central challenges in the preparation and support of teachers, with a focus on classrooms and issues in urban public schools.

Center for Research and Evaluation in Social Policy (CRESP) examines the severity of social and educational problems and the effectiveness of ameliorative programs.

Center for Urban Ethnography (CUE) undertakes a series of funded research projects and convenes the Ethnography in Education Forum, the largest annual meeting of qualitative researchers in education.

Center on Health, Achievement, Neighborhood Growth and Ethnic Studies (CHANGES) conducts longitudinal studies of extremely impoverished, southern, inner-city, and mostly male adolescents and economically disadvantaged Philadelphia high school students who have displayed above-average academic performance.

Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), a joint effort of the graduate schools of education at Penn, Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, focuses on school reform, governance, policy, and finance.

NCAL / ILI provides a comprehensive, intergenerational approach to the problems of literacy and houses the National Center on Adult Literacy, the National Technology Laboratory for Literacy and Adult Education, and the International Literacy Institute.

National Center on Fathers and Families (NCOFF) aims to improve the lives of children and families by helping fathers become more effectively involved in family life. The center sponsors roundtables and manages a national research database.

W. E. B. DuBois Collective, an interdisciplinary research project involving all 12 schools at Penn, revisits the mental health issues relevant to people of color that were originally raised in W.E.B. DuBois' landmark study "The Philadelphia Negro."