Richard Woods

Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc. provide parent education and support programs for parents to teach their children in the early years before kindergarten. The organization develops curricula, trains early childhood professionals, and certifies parent educators. It trains parents to recognize developmental delays, prevent child abuse, and get kids ready for school. The organization was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in St. Louis, MO.

The National Dropout Prevention Center is a non-profit organization which operates as a clearinghouse on issues related to dropout prevention and offers strategies designed to increase the graduation rate in America’s schools. It offers customized events, seminars, and presentations, program assessment and review (PAR) and program evaluation services, professional learning events, technical assistance, and basic core strategies. The organization was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Anderson, SC.

The Financial Literacy Board manufactures financial literacy board games. The company is based in Canberra, Australia. The Australian company is a subsidiary ultimately controlled by the Government of Australia.

The Educational Communications Board is a state agency that provides K-12 educational media, public safety, and public broadcasting services to the residents of Wisconsin. The non-profit company is based in Madison, WI. The company partner with the University of Wisconsin-Madison to deliver non-commercial programming. Additionally, they offer public safety, broadcast engineering, and transmission services.

The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future provides educational services. The firm engages education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to teaching in schools. The company was founded by Linda Darling-Hammond and James Baxter Hunt, Jr. in 1994 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.