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Almanac of Policy Issues: Education: Latest news, background information and links on U.S. elementary, secondary, and higher education issues.- www.policyalmanac.org/education/index.shtml |
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America Counts: National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century.- ed.gov/americacounts/glenn/ |
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Daily News Headlines: From Edweek.- www.edweek.org/clips/ |
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ed.gov- www.ed.gov/inits/Math/glenn/index.html |
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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.- www.geocities.com/edexhell |
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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.- www.tellingthetruth.com/education_matters/ |
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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.- www.runet.edu/~gstudies/sources/nz/keyaddr.htm |
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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.- www.nwrel.org/cnorse/ |
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From Inkwells to an Electronic Learning Community: Commentary on technological wonders as they impact education.- scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v10n2/laporte.html |
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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.- www.fff.org/issues/education.asp |
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Heartland Institute - Education: Articles reporting on school issues and reform efforts in the US.- www.heartland.org/IssueSuites.cfm?issId=3 |
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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.- www.heritage.org/Research/Education/ |
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International Correspondents in Education (ICE): ICE is a world-wide network of freelance journalists and copy-writers who specialise in education issues.- www.ice-online.net/ |
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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.- www.acenet.edu/resources/policy-research/ |
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inyourrightmind.com- www.inyourrightmind.com/ |
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Lessontutor.com - Educational Policy Issues: Essays about teaching and the politics of running schools.- www.lessontutor.com/policyissues.html |
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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.- webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/msca.htm |
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Media Visions: Articles and essays by journalist Ken Freed, covering issues related to literacy and educational technology.- www.media-visions.com/education.html |
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Moral Issues: Research articles and other essays regarding character education in the United States and Japan. Information about topics such as teenage pregnancy and school crime.- www.hi-ho.ne.jp/taku77/ |
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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.- www.ncee.org/ |
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NoIndoctrination.org: Read student postings about sociopolitical bias in college courses and orientations.- www.noindoctrination.org/ |
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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.]- www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2003/mar/homework/index.html |
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NYTimes.com - Sleep Is One Thing Missing in Busy Teenage Lives: Many teenagers live in a state of chronic sleep deficit that can affect mood, behavior, schoolwork and reaction time. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.]- www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/health/children/05SLEE.html |
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Organizational Development in Education: Optimizing schools, colleges, and universities through proven techniques such as cultural change, strategic measurement, process consulting, and other methods.- www.toolpack.com/education.html |
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People For the American Way - Education Issues: Issues and articles.- www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=12 |
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pepe.org- www.pepe.org/ |
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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.- www.flora.org/mike/ |
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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.- www.saee.bc.ca/ |
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Teaching and Learning Celebration: Explores the best practices regarding current educational issues as presented by leading educators.- www.teachlearncelebrate.com/ |
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The Emperor's Nakedness: Undressing Ignorance in the Classroom: Pedagogy needs a re-think.- www.specmind.com/vixen/undressing.htm |
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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.- www.kidsafenetwork.com/ |
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The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education: Provides action-oriented analyses of state and federal policies affecting education beyond high school.- www.highereducation.org/ |
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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.- www.right-to-education.org/ |
