- 4Choice- Common sense School
Choice objectives. Funding follows students, empowering parents, without
vouchers. Links to simplified model legislation.
- Advocacy
Groups, Policy Centers and Think Tanks - Boston College's extensive
list of resources. Be sure to click on their homepage too.
- Black Alliance for Education Options
- Supports empowering low income black families with school choice.
- Alliance for Separation of School
& State- Argues against any interference by government in education.
- Blum Center Pamphlets-
Very useful information.
- Center for Education Reform- Advocacy,
statistics, resources and guidance on education reform issues and action
at the school, district, state and national levels, from School Choice,
charter schools, and educational entrepreneurialism to high academic
standards, teacher professionalism and local control.
- Children's Educational
Opportunity Foundation - Lots of school choice information. Look
especially at their state by state summaries of current efforts.
- Citizens For Educational
Freedom- Promotes the primary rights of parents with regard to freedom
of choice, justice and quality in education for all regardless of wealth,
color or creed by allocating a fair share of educational tax dollars
for each child to take to the school of the parents' choice while protecting
parents and schools from undue government regulation and control.
- Cost of Education-
Cato Institute study: What Would a Voucher Buy. Documents the cost of
public and private education.
- Diligently
to Thy Children: The Case for School Choice - PDF pamphlet from
the group Toward Tradition, which advocates school choice based on Torah
and traditional Jewish principles.
- Dr. Quentin Quade's
essays on school choice- Part of Blum Center at Marquette University's
effort to collect, organize, synthesize and distribute information regarding
school choice efforts across the country.
- Ed Clark
White Paper on Education- Published by the Ed Clark for President
campaign in 1980, this white paper makes the case for educational tax
credits.
- Education Policy Institute-
Documented inside information on PTA and teacher unions. Education research
and policy analysis from a public choice and pro-market perspective,
plus expert revelations on teacher unions, collective bargaining in
education, PTA issues, and education reform matters.
- Education
Week - Why Vouchers, From a Teacher's Point of View - School Choice
unleashes forces of competition, benefitting teachers. Well-written
economics.
- Educational Issues
- National Center for Policy Analysis whitepapers on education issues,
particularly School Choice and teacher's union obstruction of Choice
reforms.
- Eliminate
Governmental Interference in Education- Alliance for Intellectual
Freedom in Education supports Choice, with emphasis on homeschooling.
- Empower America Education Project-
Encourages public policy solutions that maximize free markets and individual
responsibility.
- Excellent Education for Everyone
- Organizing grassroots movement throughout NJ where spending is $10,975
but half the students in inner-city public schools don't graduate.
- Faith
In Public Schools Fades- African-American parents with children
in Georgia public schools are more likely than white parents to think
private companies should run those facilities, a new study suggests.
- Floridians for School Choice-
A statewide, non-partisan, citizen organization dedicated to advancing
public awareness of the benefits of school choice for children, families,
schools, and the taxpayers.
- FOXNews
- Are Parents Boycotting Public Schools? - A growing movement of
leaders advising parents to take kids out of public schools is joined
by Dr. James Dobson, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Marlon Maddoux.
- Freedom Of Education
- News, information, essays, and links promoting educational liberty
and separation of school and state.
- Grandfather Education
Report - Series presents graphs, data, and analysis that show disturbing
trends in performance, cost, grade inflation, testing standards, union
power, bureaucracy.
- Institute for Transformation
of Learning - Dr. Howard Fuller's organization focuses on getting
options for black children.
- Kossor Education Newsletter
- Psychological Treatment Programs Masquerading as Education revealed
by a Certified School Psychologist who concludes that we must create
alternative schools.
- Michigan Union
Accountability Act: - Mackinac Center for Public Policy takes aim
at teacher unions as the main barrier to School Choice. See study, proposed
legislation, and other policy research.
- Micklethwait,
Brian: Brian's Education Blog - A weblog about education policy.
- Milton & Rose D.
Friedman Foundation - A foundation supported by Nobel Prize winning
economist Milton Friedman. Advocates restructuring the education system
to ensure educational service competition and free choice.
- The National Charter School Clearinghouse
- Provides resources on Charter school research topics: funding, grant
writing, fundraising tips, school accreditation, teacher certification,
special needs, grants, charter school resources, school choice, and
education reform.
- National Coalition of Alternative Community
Schools- An international coalition of schools, communities, home
schools and individuals committed to creating an egalitarian society.
- Putting Children First-
Serves as the national clearinghouse for privately funded voucher program
information. Offers and provides support services for each existing
program. Provides matching grant moneys to help develop these programs.
- Reason magazine
- Well-hyperlinked article thoroughly exploring aspects of choice. Reason's
Education archives contain dozens more articles spanning several years.
- Reason Magazine - a
dynamic libertarian perspective - NEA supporters are out of touch
with the increasingly pro-voucher black community, Rep Jackson got booed
off the stage when he spoke against school choice in Milwaukee.
- Resources
for Teachers Needing Help - The American Society for Ethics in Education
offers help to stop abuse and corruption where unions and school systems
fail techers.
- The
Right Thing; Why liberals should be pro-choice - A Brookings Institution
fellow, in The New Republic, discusses emerging political constituencies
for Choice versus the cognitive dissonance created by our current government
monopoly.
- Scholastic
Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students
- 20,760 student achievement test scores and their family demographics
make this the largest study of home education to date. In every subject
and at every grade level of the test batteries, home school students
scored significantly higher than their counterparts. Conducted by Dr.
Lawrence M. Rudner, Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment
and Evaluation.
- School Choice Act - MODEL
LEGISLATION - Model School Choice legislation follows common sense
objectives. Child-centered funding follows students, empowering parents
and teachers, without vouchers.
- School Choices- A citizen's
guide to education reform.
- School Choice Act-
Interprets the School Choice Act.
- School
Choice: Good for Teachers - A teacher explores reasons why Choice
will increase demand and salaries for good teachers.
- School Choice Programs-
What's happening in the States?
- School Choice Programs:
What's Happening in the States - This world renowned conservative
research facility publishes details and statistics on each state's School
Choice efforts, and maintains links to many other Choice sites.
- School Choice Research
- Harvard University Index - Program on Education Policy and Governance
presents research papers and executive summaries on the results of innovative
US policies, including programs in Washington, DC, Dayton, Ohio, Cleveland,
Ohio, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- School
Choice Research - Manhattan Institute Index - Comprehensive summary
of education reform policy studies published by their Center for Civic
Innovation.
- School
Choice Research - The Cato Institute: Index - Extensive library
of studies, articles and monographs based on classical values of individual
liberty, limited government, free markets.
- School Futures Research Foundation-
School Futures is committed to providing every child with a world-class
education. Working in collaboration with public school systems throughout
the United States, the not-for-profit foundation provides a competitive,
performance-oriented alternative for students who are trapped in historically
low performing schools.
- School Choice
Wars - John Merrifield, economics professor at University of Texas,
in articles and a new book, explains why K-12 schools governed by market
forces would be much more attractive to teachers than the status quo.
- School Choices: A Citizen's
Guide to Education Reform - Latest worldwide research shows competitive
schools serve families better than government run schools. Compares
public school systems to free market alternatives based on vouchers,
tax-credits, and privatization. Many essays, articles, book reviews,
and complete book chapters included.
- School Futures Research Foundation
- School Futures is committed to providing every child with a world-class
education. Working in collaboration with public school systems throughout
the United States, the not-for-profit foundation provides a competitive,
performance-oriented alternative for students who are trapped in historically
low performing schools.
- Unnatural
Monopoly in Education - Acton Institute for the Study of Religion
and Liberty. Think-tank studies focus on economics of parents exercising
their God-given rights as primary educators of children.
- Virtual
Charters: Public Schooling at Home - K12, a Virtual charter school
led by former education secretary, Bill Bennett, provides free curriculum,
computers and connections for homeschoolers.
- Who
Got It Right? Retrospective on the Department of Education - Thomas
Fordham think tank juxtaposes federal bureaucratic promises with lack
of results, concluding that in 20 years DOE has wasted billions satisfying
teachers unions, and is detrimental to education.
- Why School
Vouchers Can Help Inner-City Children- The Honorable Kurt L. Schmoke
is the Mayor of Baltimore. These remarks were delivered at a Manhattan
Institute luncheon in New York.
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