The National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) is an American not-for-profit, policy analysis and development organization based in Washington, DC that first opened in 1988 in Rochester, New York. Its precursor, the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy, was established by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1985. The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards was established in response to a 1986 report by Marc Tucker, "A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century." This Board established the NCEE in 1988 with Tucker as founder, CEO, and president. The NCEE's stated mission is,"To analyze the implications of changes in the international economy for American education, formulate an agenda for American education based on that analysis and seek wherever possible to accomplish that agenda through policy change and development of the resources educators would need to carry it out."