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The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk (MCPER) is dedicated to generating, disseminating, and supporting the implementation of empirically validated practices to influence educators, researchers, policymakers, families, and other stakeholders who strive to improve academic, behavioral, and social outcomes for all learners.
Created in the spring of 2008 with a major commitment from the Meadows Foundation of Dallas, MCPER is a collaboration of researchers from multiple disciplines and sites, including the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts in The University of Texas at Austin College of Education.
MCPER-produced materials are posted in our Library. The Library is updated continually, so visit it often to explore MCPER’s newest materials. Materials are also posted on relevant Institute and Project pages.
Research activities at MCPER are organized into seven institutes, through which institute fellows collaborate with MCPER:
The Projects page details the research, technical assistance, evaluation, and professional development projects under way at MCPER, including the following featured projects:
Eight schools selected to receive targeted support through Middle School Matters Institute
May 7, 2013
Seven Texas schools and one Pennsylvania school will receive expert guidance at the first annual MSMI Summer Conference.
MCPER researchers attend dedication of George W. Bush Presidential Center
May 1, 2013
Sarojani Mohammed, Christy Murray, and Sharon Vaughn of the Middle School Matters Institute congratulate the George W. Bush Institute on the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
University of Virginia professor Vivian Wong to present on experimental, quasi-experimental designs
April 24, 2013
Wong will present from 1 to 3:30 p.m. on May 9 in the Dean's Lounge (SZB 238).
MCPER’s Jacob Williams completes doctoral degree
April 19, 2013
Jacob Williams becomes MCPER's newest doctor.