Our Mission
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk is dedicated to generating and disseminating empirically validated knowledge and practices to influence educators, researchers, policy-makers, families, and other stakeholders who are striving to reduce academic, behavioral, and social risk in all learners, particularly those with disabilities.
The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk (MCPER) is a collaboration of researchers from the Educational Psychology and Special Education Departments and the Vaughn Gross Center of the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin. MCPER is supported in part by grants from the Meadows Foundation and the Greater Texas Foundation.
News
Welcome
The Meadows Center welcomes Dr. Sharon Jackson to its Board of Directors. Jackson brings years of experience working in classrooms, in education service centers, at the district level in the Texas Education Agency, and with the Texas State Legislature. In addition, she has worked with professional organizations and other state entities, including the Governor’s Office. We look forward to working with her!
Celebrations
A former Graduate Research Assistant of ours, Jennifer Heckert, is the recipient of the Texas Council for Exceptional Children's 2008 Research Incentive Award. She received a financial award from TCEC to help with her dissertation research and will present on her dissertation topic at the TCEC 2009 State Conference. Jennifer will also be featured in the October/Fall 2008 issue of the TCEC newsletter.
Deborah Reed, a project manager at the Meadows Center and a doctoral student at The University of Texas at Austin, has been selected through a national competition to participate in the inaugural cohort of Doctoral Student Scholars in Special Education Research. In the Council for Exceptional Children Division for Research (CEC-DR) initiative, Reed and nine other doctoral scholars will participate in a series of online seminars aimed at showcasing their exemplary work and fostering communication among special education researchers. For more information, see the following announcement.
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As we roll out our Web site, please return frequently to learn more about the projects that comprise MCPER.
Events
Meadows Distinguished Lecture: Sean W. Mulvenon, Professor of Educational Statistics, Billingsley Chair for Educational Research and Policy Studies, and Assistant Vice Provost for Research at the University of Arkansas, will present “The Measurement, Statistical, and Policy Challenges of NCLB and School Accountability” at 10 a.m. on Friday, November 7, in the Sanchez Building, Room 324.
Meadows Distinguished Lecture: Chris Skinner, Professor of Educational Psychology and Counseling and Coordinator of School Psychology Programs in the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, will discuss “Response to Intervention” at 10 a.m. on Friday, November 14, in the Sanchez Building, Room 324.
Brown Bag: Stephanie Stillman, Assessment Coordinator for Meadows Center’s CSR and CREATE projects, will present her dissertation research on Thursday, November 20, in the Pittenger Room. Her presentation, entitled “The Making of Martyrs and Monsters: The Politics of Memory in the Aftermath of School Shootings,” will explore research she conducted in Columbine, Colorado.