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CORE collaborates with its Simmons College Access colleagues to study the outcomes of programs like Upward Bound and McNair.

CORE provides comprehensive early learning assessment, reporting, and evaluation services to Child Care Associates, located in Fort Worth, Texas. Child Care Associates provides high-quality early learning experiences to young children, delivers child care financial assistance and other vital resources to parents, and offers professional development opportunities to educators.

CORE serves as a data partner to multiple early childhood organizations utilizing the CLASS™ tool to improve classroom instruction. CORE trains observers on the CLASS™ observation system, maintains secure data, and develops formative reports and presentations for the district, feeder patterns, individual schools and individual teachers as well as non-profit partners and funders.

CORE is partnering with Big Thought, Dallas Afterschool and Dallas ISD to provide the Expanded Learning Information System (ELIS), a shared data system that streamlines and supports data collection and data usage for after and summer school sites across the city of Dallas.

CORE serves a critical operations and support role for the West Dallas STEM School project. The STEM school is a collaboration between Simmons School of Education and Human Development, DallasISD, and the Toyota Foundation to plan, implement and support a PreK-8 STEM School in West Dallas.

CORE is a long-term research, evaluation and thought partner for Teach For America. Teach For America works to advance educational excellence and equity in the US through a network of diverse leaders working to expand access and opportunity to all children.