This Board established the NCEE in 1988 with Tucker as founder, CEO, and president[24][5] and based first in Rochester, New York.
[25] Major reports and publications NCEE has worked on include: A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages, Strong Performers and Successful Reformers in Education, and No Time to Lose: How to Build a World-Class Education System State by State.
[26][27] In 2010, NCEE organized a pilot program with a $1.5 million planning grant from the Gates Foundation, that helped NCEE "work with states and districts" develop their Early College High School (ECHS) programs, through which students could take a mixture of high school and college classes, and receive both a high school diploma and up to two years of college credits.
The goal was to insure that "students have mastered a set of basic requirements" and to reduce the "numbers of high school graduates who need remedial courses when they enroll in college.
[36][37][38][39] It has also worked with the Pennsylvania state education department to create a superintendent leadership program.