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CIES 2019 San Francisco Partner Organizations

SUSTAINING PARTNERS

Arizona State University (ASU)

DAI

  • Twitter: @DAIGlobal
  • Email: dai-education@dai.com
  • Contact: Sakil Malik
  • Website: www.dai.com
  • Description:

    DAI works to strengthen the provision of high-quality, inclusive education for children and youth around the world. We collaborate hand-in-hand with educators, communities, and stakeholders to implement local solutions from across sectors, and to understand and respond to education system. needs as a whole.

Higher School of Economics (HSE), National Research University

  • Twitter: @HSE_eng
  • Email: hse@hse.ru
  • Website: www.hse.ru/en
  • Description:

    HSE is one of the leading universities in Russia. Started in 1992 from economic program it became strong comprehensive university. Its innovative teaching, research programs supported by unique data collected through two decades of empirical studies.

Lemann Foundation

  • Twitter: @fundacaolemann
  • Website: fundacaolemann.org.br/en
  • Description:

    The Lemann Foundation is a family-run, non-profit organization that collaborates and works for quality public education for all and supports individuals and organizations that dedicate their lives to solving Brazil's key social challenges.

UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE)

  • Twitter: @IBE_UNESCO
  • Email: s.popa@unesco.org
  • Contact: Simona Popa
  • Website: www.ibe.unesco.org/en
  • Description:

    IBE-UNESCO is the global centre of excellence in curriculum and related matters. As a leading UNESCO Institute we are recognized and valued for the specialist knowledge and expertise that we bring to Member States promoting new shared global understanding of curriculum issues.

ADDITIONAL PARTNERS

AIR

  • Twitter: @AIRInforms
  • Email: dmiller@air.org
  • Contact: David Miller
  • Website: www.air.org
  • Description:

    AIR’s mission is to conduct and apply the best behavioral and social science research and evaluation towards improving people's lives, with a special emphasis on the disadvantaged.

All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development

  • Twitter: @ReadingGCD
  • Email: moetman@worldvision.org
  • Contact: Michelle Oetman
  • Website: allchildrenreading.org
  • Description:

    All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development is a series of competitions that leverages science and technology to source, test, and disseminate scalable solutions to improve literacy skills of early grade learners in developing countries.

The Asia Foundation

Basic Education Coalition (BEC)

  • Twitter: @BasicEdtweets
  • Website: basiced.org
  • Description:

    The Basic Education Coalition (BEC) is a group of leading US-based organizations and academic institutions working together to promote global peace and prosperity through education. By leveraging our collective technical expertise and combining advocacy efforts, BEC members raise a unified voice to ensure US policy makers support and strengthen education for the developing world.

Bloomsbury Academic

Brill | Sense

  • Twitter: @brill_education
  • Email: Bennett@brill.com
  • Contact: Brill
  • Website: www.brill.com
  • Description:

    Brill | Sense is the new imprint of Sense Publishers and is one of the fastest growing publishers of books in Educational Research and related fields, with a current backlist of over 1,500 titles and more than 100 new titles published annually.

BurdaEducation

  • Twitter: @BurdaEducation
  • Email: mail@burdaeducation.com
  • Contact: Penelope Bender
  • Website: burdaeducation.com
  • Description:

    BurdaEducation is dedicated to improving access to education through the timely provision of high quality textbooks as well as teaching and learning materials (TLM). We provide solutions for every stage of the textbook and TLM supply chain.

Cambridge Education

  • Twitter: @Camb_Ed
  • Email: hayley.niad@mottmac.com
  • Website: www.camb-ed.com
  • Description:

    Cambridge Education has delivered expert consultancy and training services in education and international development for more than 30 years. We are active in Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, the UK, and the USA.

CARE

  • Twitter: @CARE
  • Email: anna.luna@care.org
  • Contact: AnnaCarolina Luna
  • Website: www.care.org
  • Description:

    CARE is a global leader within a worldwide movement dedicated to ending poverty. CARE works around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice.

Catholic Relief Services

Chemonics

  • Twitter: @Chemonics
  • Email: EducationandYouthteam@chemonics.com
  • Contact: Jordene Hale
  • Website: www.chemonics.com
  • Description:

    At Chemonics, our education projects focus on sustainability and reaching the most marginalized — from those with disabilities to those in conflict environments. By equipping children with the materials and skills they need, we lay the foundation for them

Comparative Education Research Centre

  • Email: cerc@hku.hk
  • Website: www.cerc.edu.hku.hk
  • Description:

    Established in 1994, in the Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong, CERC builds on the Faculty’s expertise in comparative and global studies in education.

Consortium for Pre-Primary Data and Measurement in Africa (CPDMA)

  • Website: ecdmeasure.org/consortium
  • Description:

    CPDMA is new initiative funded by USAID to promote movement towards data-driven early childhood systems in sub-Saharan Africa.

Creative Associates International

  • Twitter: @1977Creative
  • Email: MartaM@creativeDC.com
  • Contact: Marta Maldanado
  • Website: www.creativeassociatesinternational.com
  • Description:

    Creative Associates is dedicated to supporting people around the world to realize the positive change they seek through building inclusive educational systems, transitioning communities from conflict to peace, and developing sustainable economic growth.

DevTech Systems, Inc.

  • Twitter: @DevTechSys
  • Email: devtech@devtechsys.com
  • Contact: Andrea Cristancho
  • Website: devtechsys.com
  • Description:

    DevTech Systems, Inc. is an international consulting firm dedicated to data-driven, innovative solutions for development. DevTech brings expert capabilities in education, economics, data analytics, and monitoring and evaluation methodologies.

Dexis Consulting Group

ECCN

  • Twitter: @EdCCnetwork
  • Email: tcordner@edc.org
  • Contact: Tracy Cordner
  • Website: eccnetwork.net
  • Description:

    The USAID Education in Crisis and Conflict Network (ECCN) is a global community of practice comprised of USAID staff and implementing partners all working together to increase equitable access to education for children and youth in crisis and conflict-affected environments.

ECD Measure

  • Twitter: @ECDMeasure
  • Website: ecdmeasure.org
  • Description:

    We help build data-driven systems for early childhood education. ECD Measure provides the tools, resources and community that empower governments, non-profit organizations and researchers to build feasible, efficient and reliable early childhood development measurement systems.

Echidna Giving

Education Development Center

  • Twitter: @edctweets
  • Email: contact@edc.org
  • Contact: Sonya Tung
  • Website: edc.org
  • Description:

    EDC designs, implements, and evaluates programs to improve education, health, and economic opportunity worldwide.

Education Equity Research Initiative

  • Twitter: @Equity2030
  • Email: educationequity@fhi360.org
  • Contact: Jane Sullivan
  • Website: educationequity2030.org
  • Description:

    The Education Equity Research Initiative is a collaborative partnership that connects organizations and individuals committed to building stronger evidence and knowledge for improving solutions for equity in and through education.

Education Sciences

Espirálica Research & Strategic Consulting

  • Email: valenzuela@espiralica.com
  • Contact: Cesar Valenzuela
  • Website: www.espiralica.com
  • Description:

    Social Research firm specialized in cuantitative and qualitative data collection for projects and impact evaluation in Latin America and the U.S.

FHI 360

  • Twitter: @fhi360
  • Email: kkelleher@fhi360.org
  • Contact: Kerriann Kelleher
  • Website: fhi360.org
  • Description:

    FHI 360 is an international nonprofit working to improve the health and well-being of people in the United States and around the world.

Florida International University, Office of Global Learning Initiatives

  • Twitter: @GoGlobalFIU
  • Email: sdoscher@fiu.edu
  • Contact: Stephanie Doscher
  • Website: www.goglobal.fiu.edu
  • Description:

    The Office of Global Learning Initiatives coordinates all aspects of FIU's university-wide undergraduate curricular and co-curricular initiative, Global Learning for Global Citizenship.

George Mason University

  • Twitter: @MasonCEHD
  • Website: cehd.gmu.edu
  • Description:

    The College of Education and Human Development (CEHD) inspires undergraduate and graduate students to promote learning and development across the life span. Innovative, inclusive, and cutting-edge, the college and its two schools prepare professionals who improve lives and make a difference for our community and for the world.

George Washington University

  • Twitter: @gwGSEHD
  • Website: gsehd.gwu.edu
  • Description:

    George Washington University's Graduate School of Education and Human Development

Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

  • Twitter: @giescr
  • Email: sarah@gi-escr.org
  • Contact: Sarah French
  • Website: www.gi-escr.org
  • Description:

    Gl-ESCR is a non-governmental organisation that believes transformative change to end endemic problems of social and economic injustice is possible only through a human rights lens.

Global Partnership for Education

  • Twitter: @GPforEducation
  • Email: skivilcim@globalpartnership.org
  • Contact: Serenat Kivilcim-Wilkins
  • Website: www.globalpartnership.org
  • Description:

    Global Partnership for Education (GPE) is a multi-stakeholder partnership and funding platform that aims to strengthen education systems in developing countries in order to dramatically increase the number of children who are in school and learning.

Global Reading Network

IIEP-UNESCO

  • Twitter: @IIEP_UNESCO
  • Email: a.waldhorn@iiep.unesco.org
  • Contact: WALDHORN Alexandra
  • Website: www.iiep.unesco.org
  • Description:

    The UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning supports countries in planning and managing their education systems. At CIES, learn about our work on open school data, teachers of refugees, use of learning assessment data, and more!

Impact Initiative for International Development Research

  • Twitter: @The_Impact_Init
  • Email: info@theimpactinitiative.net
  • Contact: Elizabeth Tofaris
  • Website: www.theimpactinitiative.net
  • Description:

    The Impact Initiative aims to increase the uptake and impact of research from two major research programmes jointly funded by ESRC and DFID: the Joint Fund for Poverty Alleviation Research and the Raising Learning Outcomes in Education Systems Programme.

IMPAQ International

  • Twitter: @impaqint
  • Email: info@impaqint.com
  • Contact: Jonathan Simonetta
  • Website: www.impaqint.com
  • Description:

    IMPAQ helps governments, businesses, non-profits, and universities evaluate and enhance their programs and policy through research studies, program evaluations, implementation assistance, data collection, technical solutions & communication strategies.

Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies

  • Twitter: @INEEtweets
  • Website: www.ineesite.org/en
  • Description:

    The Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) promotes access to quality, safe, and relevant education for all persons affected by crisis.

International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement

  • Twitter: @iea_education
  • Email: m.govaerts@iea.nl
  • Contact: Mirjam Govaerts
  • Website: www.iea.nl
  • Description:

    IEA works to research, understand and improve education worldwide. Our studies (TIMSS, PIRLS, ICCS, ICILS), open access data, workshops, publications and services are rich resources for educational practitioners, researchers and policymakers.

IREX

  • Twitter: @IREXintl
  • Email: communications@irex.org
  • Website: www.irex.org
  • Description:

    IREX is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to building a more just, prosperous, and inclusive world by empowering youth, cultivating leaders, strengthening institutions, and extending access to quality education and information.

Journal on Education in Emergencies (JEiE)

  • Twitter: @JournalonEiE
  • Website: www.ineesite.org/en/journal
  • Description:

    JEiE publishes groundbreaking and outstanding scholarly and practitioner work on education in emergencies (EiE), defined broadly as quality learning opportunities for all ages in situations of crisis, including early childhood development, primary, secondary, non-formal, technical, vocation, higher and adult education.

Juárez and Associates

  • Email: njuarez@juarezassociates.com
  • Contact: Nick Juárez
  • Website: juarezassociates.com
  • Description:

    Juárez & Associates is a research and consulting firm — a small business which provides targeted services to governmental agencies, institutions, community organizations, business and private sector clients.

Language and Learning Foundation

  • Twitter: @LLF_edu
  • Website: languageandlearningfoundation.org
  • Description:

    The Language and Learning Foundation (LLF) was formed in 2015 with the aim of developing and implementing a variety of professional development opportunities for teachers, teacher educators and other stakeholders in the area of early grade student learning with a specific focus on language and literacy.

Lemann Center, Stanford University

  • Twitter: @LemannCenter
  • Email: lemanncenter@stanford.edu
  • Contact: Cristina Antunes
  • Website: lemanncenter.stanford.edu
  • Description:

    Since 2009 the Stanford University Graduate School of Education has received support from the Lemann Foundation to train Brazilian students and visiting scholars. In 2011, the Foundation helped the GSE create the Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazil.

Loyola University Chicago

Nal'ibali

  • Twitter: @NalibaliSA
  • Email: sally@nalibali.org
  • Contact: Sally
  • Website: www.nalibali.org
  • Description:

    Nal’ibali (isiXhosa for “here’s the story”) is South Africa’s reading-for-enjoyment campaign. It makes use of reading and storytelling in home languages as well as English to support children’s literacy learning and school success.

National Education Support Trust (NEST) USA

  • Email: mary@nestusa.org
  • Contact: Mary McKenna
  • Website: www.nestusa.org
  • Description:

    NEST USA provides WordScientists.org(WS): an e- platform providing a fully developed, free curriculum with all the resources ( student books, teacher lesson-guides and video-tutorials) to teach English to students in Prek- to Age 8/9.

National Research University Higher School of Economics

  • Twitter: @HSE_eng
  • Email: hse@hse.ru
  • Contact: NRU Higher School of Economics
  • Website: www.hse.ru/en
  • Description:

    HSE is one of the leading universities in Russia. Started in 1992 from economic program it became strong comprehensive university. Its innovative teaching, research programs supported by unique data collected through two decades of empirical studies

NORRAG

  • Twitter: @norrag
  • Website: www.norrag.org
  • Description:

    NORRAG is a global membership-based network of international policies and cooperation in education, established in 1986.

Open Society Foundations

Palgrave Macmillan

  • Twitter: @PalgraveEducate
  • Email: milana.vernikova@palgrave-usa.com
  • Contact: Milana Vernikova
  • Website: www.palgrave.com
  • Description:

    Palgrave Macmillan is an international academic and trade publisher focused on publishing original and cutting-edge scholarly content. Its vast program includes textbooks, monographs, edited collections, handbooks, and reference works in print and online.

Penn State University

  • Twitter: @psu_collegeofed
  • Website: ed.psu.edu/eps/cied
  • Description:

    The Penn State Comparative and International Education program trains scholars who advance our basic knowledge about schooling and education around the globe. The CIED program is designed to create opportunities for a range of people—administrators and policy makers in social welfare, health education, and development; school leaders; and scholars of education.

Plan International

  • Twitter: @PlanUSA
  • Email: Rose.Fishman@planusa.org
  • Contact: Rose Fishman
  • Website: www.planusa.org
  • Description:

    Plan International USA is a member of a global federation which operates in more than 70 countries and focuses on children's rights and equality for girls.

Planet Aid Inc.

  • Twitter: @planetaid
  • Email: pind@planetaid.org
  • Website: www.planetaid.org
  • Description:

    Planet Aid’s mission is to inform, mobilize, and inspire individuals and communities to work together to bring about worldwide environmental and social progress. Through development projects, we empower and train people to create lasting positive change.

Room to Read

RTI International

  • Twitter: @RTI_INTL_DEV
  • Email: kdesrosiers@rti.org
  • Website: www.rti.org/
  • Description:

    RTI is an independent, nonprofit institute that provides research, development, and technical services to government and commercial clients worldwide. Our mission is to improve the human condition by turning knowledge into practice.

Save the Children

Scholars at Risk

  • Twitter: @ScholarsAtRisk
  • Email: cb4287@nyu.edu
  • Contact: Chelsea Blackburn Cohen
  • Website: www.scholarsatrisk.org
  • Description:

    Scholars at Risk is an international network of institutions and individuals whose mission it is to protect scholars and promote academic freedom.

School-to-School International

Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research

SIL LEAD, Inc.

Springer

  • Twitter: @SpringerEdu
  • Email: claudia.acuna@springer.com
  • Contact: Claudia Acuna
  • Website: www.springer.com
  • Description:

    Springer is a leading global scientific, technical and medical portfolio, providing researchers in academia, scientific institutions and corporate R&D departments with quality content through innovative information, products and services.

Stanford ICE

  • Twitter: @StanfordEd
  • Website: ed.stanford.edu/ice
  • Description:

    The International Comparative Education (ICE) oncentration at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education is a multidisciplinary, international, cross-cultural program of training that places educational problems into an international and comparative framework.

Stanford University Press

  • Twitter: @stanfordpress
  • Email: information@www.sup.org
  • Website: www.sup.org
  • Description:

    Stanford University Press publishes 130 books a year across the humanities, social sciences, law, and business. At the leading edge of both print and digital dissemination of innovative research, SUP is a publisher of ideas that matter, books that endure.

SUMMA: Education Research and Innovation Laboratory for Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Twitter: @summa_edu
  • Email: comunicaciones@summaedu.org
  • Contact: Patricia Armingol
  • Website: www.summaedu.org
  • Description:

    The mission of SUMMA is to contribute to and increase the quality, equity and inclusion of the educational systems in the region, through the improvement of the decision-making process regarding educational policies and practices.

Teachers College, Columbia University

Teachers College Press

  • Twitter: @TCPress
  • Email: tcpress@tc.edu
  • Website: www.tcpress.com
  • Description:

    Publisher of books, DVDs, and other materials in professional development and all areas of education from pre-K through higher education.

U-Tena Youth Organization

  • Twitter: @UnganoTena
  • Email: info@u-tena.org
  • Contact: Peter Mokaya
  • Website: www.u-tena.org
  • Description:

    U-Tena works in the informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya, and partners with stakeholders in the education sector (primary and secondary) to achieve better education outcomes. We provide mentorship programs, provide scholarships and policy engagement.

University of Chicago Press

  • Twitter: @ChicagoJournals
  • Email: grudy@uchicago.edu
  • Contact: Gordon Rudy
  • Website: www.journals.uchicago.edu
  • Description:

    We are honored to publish Comparative Education Review, the official journal of CIES. Chicago is a mission-driven publisher of more than 80 journals, including titles in education, development, sociology, and economics

The University of Hong Kong

  • Twitter: @hku_education
  • Email: sarah616@connect.hku.hk
  • Website: www.hku.hk
  • Description:

    The University of Hong Kong, Asia’s Global University, delivers impact through internationalisation, innovation and interdisciplinarity. It makes a positive social contribution through global presence, regional significance and engagement with the rest of China.

University of Maryland

  • Twitter: @UMDCollegeofEd
  • Website: education.umd.edu
  • Description:

    The College of Education at the University of Maryland provides research– and practice–oriented programs across a wide spectrum of education issues. Through its departments of Counseling, Higher Education and Special Education; Human Development and Quantitative Methodology; and Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership, the College's highly–regarded faculty, staff, students and alumni are committed to equity and social justice.

University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education

  • Twitter: @PennGSE
  • Email: sclauren@upenn.edu
  • Contact: Lauren Scicluna
  • Website: iedp.gse.upenn.edu
  • Description:

    A leading research university offering graduate programs in comparative education, international higher education and international education policy and evaluation

University of Pittsburgh, Institute for International Studies is Education

  • Twitter: @Pitt_IISE
  • Website: iise.pitt.edu
  • Description:

    IISE provides the University of Pittsburgh with one of the most dynamic and productive, internationally-oriented schools of education in the world. Our mission is to serve as the premier university research and training institute in comparative, international, and development education.

World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES)

World Education, Inc.

  • Twitter: @WorldEd
  • Email: kayla_caldwell@worlded.org
  • Contact: Kayla Caldwell
  • Website: www.worlded.org
  • Description:

    World Education, Inc. is dedicated to improving the lives of the poor through education and social and economic development programs.

World Institute for Social Education Development

  • Twitter: @wiseed1
  • Email: m.brant@wise-ed.org
  • Contact: Michael Brant
  • Website: www.wise-ed.org
  • Description:

    Our mission: to apply EQ/ Global Citizenship Education to real life needs internationally; joining our Community Centers and Curricula for K-university, teachers, parents, business and government, to service opportunities in impoverished/imperiled areas.

World Learning Inc.

  • Twitter: @WorldLearning
  • Email: development@worldlearning.org
  • Website: www.worldlearninginc.org
  • Description:

    As both an accredited academic institution (SIT Study Abroad and Graduate Institute) and an international global development NGO (World Learning), World Learning Inc. offers the best of theory and practice to individuals and institutions in 162 countries.

World Vision

  • Twitter: @worldvisionUSA
  • Email: ProgramNews@worldvision.org
  • Website: www.worldvision.org
  • Description:

    World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.