Resource round-up: Spotlight on the Southern Regional Education Board

The Southern Regional Education Board is a non-profit, nonpartisan, interstate organization of 16 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia) working to improve education in the region.

Representatives from each state include the governor and four gubernatorial appointees, which must include one state legislator and one educator. Here is a sampling of SREB's programs and goals:

• institutional diversity
• online learning and educational technology
• distance and adult learning
• higher learning (including programs providing in-state tuition for out-of-state degrees)
  
• free resources for teachers
• K-20 school improvement initiatives

The organization also takes legislative action and produces educational data and reports. In addition to their own information-packed website, SREB also runs The Teacher Center, a portal for helping educators meet their career goals.