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The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk (MCPER) is dedicated to generating, disseminating, and supporting the implementation of empirically validated, evidence-based practices to significantly affect student outcomes and support educators, researchers, policymakers, families, and other stakeholders who strive to improve academic, behavioral, and social outcomes for all learners.
Created in the spring of 2008 with a major commitment from the Meadows Foundation of Dallas, MCPER is a collaboration of researchers from multiple disciplines and sites, including the Vaughn Gross Center for Reading and Language Arts in The University of Texas at Austin College of Education.
MCPER-produced materials are posted in our Library. The Library is updated continually, so visit it often to explore MCPER’s newest materials. Materials are also posted on relevant Institute and Project pages.
Research activities at MCPER are organized into eight institutes, through which institute fellows collaborate with MCPER:
MCPER translates research findings into easy-to-understand tools and resources that policymakers, administrators, and all educators can use.
In our 10 Key Series, the latest research findings are distilled into concise top 10 lists of the most important things that should be in place in every school.
Hosted on the Texas Center for Learning Disabilities site, the Education Research Matters monthly series features researchers translating important, current research into nonacademic language for practitioners in the field.
MCPER, UC Riverside receive $3.8 million to evaluate reading intervention for students with autism spectrum disorders
October 20, 2022
MCPER seeks postdoctoral scholar for new research opportunity
October 12, 2022
Paid position includes participating on research teams developing and validating intensive interventions as part of multitiered systems of support (MTSS)
Storytelling program helps at-risk children with spoken language, reading, and writing, study finds
October 4, 2022