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Alliance for Excellent Education
Advocates for at-risk middle and high school students by promoting increased education funding and high school reform to help make every child a graduate.
http://www.all4ed.org
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Articles by Larry Phillips
Various articles on education and education reform, including the standards movement, school based management, and school councils.
http://www.clubwebcanada.ca/l-pphillips/
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Current Issues In Public Education
A Canadian site dedicated to providing information, opinion and research related to public education reform issues. Maintained by British Columbia School Trustee Katherine Wagner.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5909/
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Diana M. Fessler
As an elected member of the Ohio State Board of Education, Diana Fessler is working to promote positive reform in Ohio's schools.
http://www.fessler.com/
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Education Benchmarks
Seeks to give citizens the information they need to understand the progress of public education reform in Massachusetts. Find out about your local schools, compare the performance of different school systems, track progress over time, and learn about Massachusetts education reform efforts over the years.
http://www.edbenchmarks.org/
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EDUTRUE: Education Reform From the Top Down
Offering different perspectives on education reform issues, including original essays, quotations, relevant links, and suggestions for student-driven reform.
http://members.tripod.com/edutrue/a-files/index.html
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Equal Child Abuse
An expose of how fraudulent Supreme Court rulings have inflicted massive damage on our public education system.
http://ttokarnak.home.att.net/Educ.html
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Good Schools
Presentation of issues facing parents, taxpayers and teachers in reforming schools in the twenty-first century.
http://www.goodschools.com/
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Is It Good for the Kids?
A monthly column by ASCD Executive Director Gene R. Carter, which addresses timely educational issues.
http://www.ascd.org/educationnews/kids/kidsarchives.html
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LEARN
What citizens need to know about education reform, school to work, early childhood education, and the restructuring of America.
http://www.icehouse.net/lmstuter/
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Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
Organization advocating standards-based school improvement programs. Includes news, issues information, research findings and curriculum materials.
http://www.mcrel.org/
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MiddleWeb: Exploring Middle School Reform
Links, resources, and original reporting for middle school teachers, parents, and others interested in raising student achievement and reforming middle grades education. Weekly diaries reveal the real work of middle grades teachers.
http://www.middleweb.com
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NPR : Testing Scandal in Texas Schools
Houston schools have been implicated in a cheating scandal after test scores in some Texas school districts made suspicious leaps. An inspector general is investigating at least 23 schools. Questions arose in 2004 after The Dallas Morning News found strong evidence that educators were helping students cheat at nearly 400 schools statewide. [5:12 streaming audio broadcast]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4544036
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Partnership for Kentucky Schools
Voice of the business community in Kentucky education reform efforts.
http://www.pfks.org/
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Project Appleseed
A non-profit national campaign to improve public schools by increasing and organizing parental involvement in all 15,000 public school districts in the United States of America.
http://www.projectappleseed.org/
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Public Education Network
A citizen's gateway to the world of public school reform and local education funds.
http://www.publiceducation.org
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Public Schools Today
Original articles regarding the state of education, and resources to aid in further study of education issues.
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/public_schools_today
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Redefining Education
The world has changed in the 50+ years since the foundations of our educational system were established. Our system of education has not evolved adequately. We need to redefine society's expectations and needs so we can redesign our educational system.
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/redefining_education
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Save Our Schools, Inc.
A non-profit organization that provides educational tools to public schools so children may achieve their full potential.
http://www.soschools.org/
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Terri L. Miller, Ed.D.
Creating excellent learning environments one school at a time
http://www.terrilmiller.com
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The Campaign for Meaningful Student Involvement
Information and resources meant to encourage student/adult partnerships and action to create better schools.
http://studentinvolvement.net/
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The Lancasterian Monitorial System of Education
Joseph Lancaster (1778-1838) led a movement to establish schools that used what he called the Monitorial System, in which more advanced students taught less advanced ones.
http://www.constitution.org/lanc/monitorial.htm
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The National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform (NCCSR)
Created to improve the national dissemination of information on comprehensive school reform.
http://www.goodschools.gwu.edu/
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The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
An independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization of Kentucky parents and citizens working to improve education in the Commonwealth at all levels.
http://www.prichardcommittee.org/
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Toward a National Education Laboratory
Discussions and recommendations for the establishment of a breakthrough National Education Research and Development Laboratory
http://futuresedge.org/national_education_lab.html
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Truth, Lies, Rumors and Rumbles
Putting the "public" into Public Education for the Southern Regional School District.
http://www.cris.com/~Awolinsk/
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UEdge
Assists students and the general public in the independent analysis of higher education issues and policy choices.
http://www.bigtenu.org/
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