LPO Research and Outreach
Forum for Entrepreneurship Education
The Forum for Entrepreneurship Education aims to nurture a new generation of entrepreneurial thinkers by creating a learning environment which fosters entrepreneurial activities and thinking. The Forum for Entrepreneurship Education's learning environment is designed to teach students how to live and work outside of bureaucracy, explore new ideas and ventures, and see entrepreneurship as reality.
Leadership Development Center
In conjunction with the Gates Foundation Challenge Grant for Leadership Development, the Leadership Development Center runs the Principals' Leadership Academy of Nashville (PLAN) and the Institute for School Leaders (ISL). PLAN is based on the foundational belief that principals make a profound difference in the quality and culture of a school and is intended to support metro schools' new superintendent's transformation of Nashville community schools.
National Center on Performance Initiatives
Established in 2006 through a major research and development grant from the Institute of Education Sciences, the National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI) conducts scientific, comprehensive research on the effects of performance incentives in education.
National Center on School Choice
The Center on School Choice aims at conducting scientific, comprehensive, and timely investigation on individual and systemic effects of school choice and competition. The center assumes national intellectual leadership with regard to coordinating efforts of multiple disciplines, methodologies, and substantive issues that are associated with the design, implementation, and effects of school choice. The center is funded by the United States Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.
Peabody Center for Education Policy
The Peabody Center for Education Policy (PCEP) serves the nation through constituencies that hold important stakes in the future of American education.
Peabody Journal of Education
The Peabody Journal of Education (PJE), is America's second longest existing publication devoted to educational research, practice, and policy. PJE is committed to providing information and reasoned opinion that will enhance understanding and practice among institutions and individuals, in the United States and throughout the world, concerned with human learning and development.
