Mission
The mission of the Education Research & Opportunity Center at the University of Tennessee Knoxville is to produce high-quality research, conduct high-impact outreach, and promote effective policies and practices that increase educational success and opportunity.
Vision
Our research informs our outreach; our outreach informs our research. Our research and outreach inform–and is informed by–our strategic partnerships with policymakers, education systems and advocates. Together, we help schools and students succeed by improving policies and practices across the classroom-to-career pipeline.
Our Vision
Research
Our research, technical assistance and evaluation expertise span the classroom to career pipeline, from early childhood to adult education. Learn more about our work, our nationally recognized faculty and our commitment to producing timely, solutions-oriented research.
Outreach
We are home to five thriving, U.S. Department of Education TRiO outreach and student services programs, each designed to increase college access and success for first-generation, low-income students in the East Tennessee and surrounding rural areas.
Recent News
Want “Career-Ready” Students? Start in Middle School February is Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month, a time when we see a greater focus on the “career” side of college and career readiness conversations. Naturally, these conversations tend to revolve around what high schools can do to prepare students for meaningful careers and the postsecondary pathways that […]
As part of Career and Technical Education (CTE) Month, one of our research affiliates, Thomas Torre Gibney who is a Senior Research Associate at WestEd , at ERO recently contributed to an important new study on career development. Their team at WestEd conducted a landscape analysis of middle school CTE for the Nebraska Department of […]
MSUB is pleased to highlight past participant Samuel Leighton Hoster. In addition to being an exceptional MSUB participant while in high school, he was also awarded and successfully completed our summer Bridge Scholarship program, which prepares students for their first year in college. He has since begun his time as a Freshman at UTK and […]