Welcome to the WWW homepage for The Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast and Islands. This page is currently in development and therefore contains some incomplete information. Your comments, suggestions, and questions are most appreciated. Please direct all feedback to the email address net-questions@neirl.org.

Table of Contents

• Who We Are
• About Our Region
  • Laboratory Projects
• Laboratory Materials and Publications
• Access the Laboratory's Gopher Server
• Information from Other Regional Laboratories
• Other Sources of Information for Educators. Includes links to Pathways and a variety of other servers of interest to the educational community.
• Other Electronic Collections

Who We Are

The Regional Laboratory for Educational Improvement of the Northeast and Islands is one of the 10 regional educational laboratories authorized by Congress and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI). Under the direction of a 41-member, regionally representative governing board, the Laboratory does development work and provides assistance to educators and policymakers throughout its service area.

• Click here to learn more about the Laboratory and its projects.

In addition to this WWW server, the Laboratory also maintains a gopher server. While containing many of the same documents found on the web server, our gopher also has available a number of longer documents and files of interest to educators around the Northeast and Islands region.

Our Region

The Laboratory serves a region which includes New England, New York, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Select a name from the list below for more information about that jurisdiction.

• Connecticut
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• New York
• Rhode Island
• Puerto Rico
• Vermont
• The U.S. Virgin Islands

As a region, we contain two of the three largest school districts in the nation (New York City and Puerto Rico) as well as some of the most rural.

• Click here for information on Laboratory projects of a regional nature.

• Click here for links to newsletters, articles, policy briefs, and other materials. On this page you will find Laboratory analyses of Goals 2000 legislation as well as a pointer to our Opportunity-to-Learn Standards document.

• Click here for information on funding opportunities for educators.

• Click here for calendar-based information on conferences, workshops, and other dated events for educators in the Northeast and Islands region.
• Click here for activities for educators, parents, and community members. These are selections from the Laboratory's publication Creating New Visions for Schools.