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- A Citizen's Guide to Education
Reform- Offers research on the effectiveness of vouchers.
- AFT Voucher Home Page-
The must see site for informed decision makers.
- Almanac
of Policy Issues: Education - Latest news, background information
and links on U.S. elementary, secondary, and higher education issues.
- America Counts -
National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st
Century.
- The Condition of Education
(USA) - An integrated collection of the indicators and analyses
published in The Condition of Education 2000, 2001 and 2002.
- Daily News Headlines -
From Edweek.
- Edexhell - Success through
Disqualification - Campaigning for investigation into the UK examination
board Edexcel, after a series of errors in papers, marking and information.
Petition, timeline and other campaign details.
- Education
Matters - Essays on Public Education - Sandra Nichols writes about
bilingual education, safe schools, small schools and the importance
of trust and good communication between students, parents, teachers,
and administrators.
- Education Week on the Web - Weekly
news on American education issues. Searchable archives.
- Educational
Pathways to Power - An address by Hilary Lips - recipient of the
New Zealand Federation of University Women's Distinguished American
Scholar Award - and distributed by Radford University's Center for Gender
Studies.
- The Emperor's
Nakedness: Undressing Ignorance in the Classroom - Pedagogy needs
a re-think.
- Equity Center - Committed
to helping public school personnel embrace the key concepts of equity
and eliminate bias and discrimination in the context of their day-to-day
activities.
- Expect the Best from a Girl
- This site supports a national campaign for educational equity for
girls in their early teens.
- From
Inkwells to an Electronic Learning Community - Commentary on technological
wonders as they impact education.
- Future of Freedom
Foundation: Education - Collected essays presenting a libertarian
perspective on the U.S. education system. Among the issues addressed
are vouchers, compulsory attendance laws, and school violence.
- Heartland
Institute - Education - Articles reporting on school issues and
reform efforts in the US.
- Heritage Foundation
Research: Education - Subject index of the think tank's policy papers
on school choice, students' rights, charter schools, and other issues
in U.S. education.
- Independent Voices for Better Education
- Dedicated to improving education and educational accountability.
- International Correspondents
in Education (ICE) - ICE is a world-wide network of freelance journalists
and copy-writers who specialise in education issues.
- Internet
Sources for Higher Education Policy and Research - Links to higher
education policy centers (both university-based and freestanding), associations,
publications, and other policy-related issues, from the American Council
on Education.
- The Kid-Safe Network
- A nation-wide educational program to teach children and parents about
the dangers of child molesters. Learn special methods to avoid these
dangers.
- Lessontutor.com
- Educational Policy Issues - Essays about teaching and the politics
of running schools.
- Massachusetts
State Colleges Under Attack - Massachusetts state colleges are a
tremendous resource for the state, but the commonwealth's own Board
of Higher Education seems bent on their destruction.
- Media Visions
- Articles and essays by journalist Ken Freed, covering issues related
to literacy and educational technology.
- Moral Issues in Education
- Research articles and other essays regarding character education in
the United States and Japan, by Taku Ikemoto
- National Center for
Policy Analysis - NCPA's conservative positions on educational issues.
- The National Center for
Public Policy and Higher Education - Provides action-oriented analyses
of state and federal policies affecting education beyond high school.
- National Center on Education and the
Economy - Policies, tools, technical assistance and professional
development that people everywhere can use to design and implement effective
standards-based education and training systems.
- NoIndoctrination.org
- Read student postings about sociopolitical bias in college courses
and orientations.
- NPR
: Homework: How Much is Too Much? - NPR presents a multi-part series
on homework -- how educators are balancing mandates to improve test
scores against a chronic lack of resources and the need for children
to have enough time to be children. [Four segments, each in Realaudio
format.]
- NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy
School Education Survey - Public approves of higher taxes for schools,
but wants fairness in funding; support weak for vouchers and unclear
for charter schools. Read or take the poll.
- Organizational Development
in Education - Optimizing schools, colleges, and universities through
proven techniques such as cultural change, strategic measurement, process
consulting, and other methods.
- Our
Nation's Kids: Is Something Wrong? - A report on people's thinking
in national issues forums. This report describes what happened as people
deliberated about issues related to our nation's kids: the values they
drew on, the considerations they took into account, the costs and consequences
they weighed as they talked, listened to others, and had time to reflect
on the issue.
- People
For the American Way - Education Issues - Issues and articles.
- PEPE, Inc. - The only organization
in the Philippines specifically devoted to the advancement and propagation
of the theory and practice of popular education. As part of its commitment
to human development, PEPE provides education services to a diverse
set of sectors and groups - urban poor, peasants, lawyers, doctors,
women, and indigenous peoples.
- Popular EducationTool Kit
- Popular Education is a tool to raise people's critical awareness about
the world around them, based on their personal experience. This site
includes resources and exercises using Popular Education techniques.
- Society for the Advancement of Excellence
in Education - provides non-partisan research, information and communication
on education to Canadian policy-makers, education partners and the public.
- Teaching and Learning
Celebration - Explores the best practices regarding current educational
issues as presented by leading educators.
- The Right to Education
Project - A resource on the status of the right to education as
outlined by the United Nations, supporting the work of the UN Special
Rapporteur on education. Includes links to allied organizations.
- The
right-wing politics behind school vouchers- Wisconsin court permits
aid to religious schools.
- What Would a
School Voucher Buy?- The real costs of private schools.
- Why School
Vouchers Can Help Inner-City Children - The Manhattan Institute
feature article by The Honorable Kurt L. Schmoke, Mayor of Baltimore
"The City That Reads.
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