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A new $1.2 million research center based at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research is beginning the work of coordinating the research on issues relating to reading and behavior problems in students in grades kindergarten through 3. All children, including children at risk for social, emotional, and behavior dysfunction, will be the focus of the interventions.

The Coordination, Consultation, and Evaluation Center (CCE Center) is directed by UW-Madison professors Thomas R. Kratochwill and Stephen N. Elliott.

The six research centers are located at the universities of Kansas in Lawrence, Nebraska in Lincoln, North Carolina in Charlotte, Oregon in Eugene (two), and Texas in Austin.

Kratochwill and Elliott and their staff will provide technical assistance and consultation to these research centers and will ultimately evaluate them in terms of the acceptability, integrity, effectiveness, cost, and generalizability of their work.

Announcing the funding of these new projects, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige said, "President Bush and I are committed to making sure our education system offers America's students with disabilities the opportunity to learn through methods and programs that are proven to work. We hope to see model programs that will advance our efforts to understand how we can best help children with special needs."

The six reading and behavior center will demonstrate school-based models of programs and practices to serve children in grades K-3 who are identified as having marked difficulty learning to read or who exhibit serious behaviors that lead to discipline problems as they get older. Elementary schools will be selected by each of the six reading and behavior centers for implementing the model programs.

The US Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services funds this project.

For more information contact Thomas R. Kratochwill, tomkat@education.wisc.edu, 608-262-5912; or Stephen N. Elliott, snelliot@facstaff.wisc.edu, 608-263-4252.