40 sites in Education Reform
Edaction
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PAC which works to ensure future Americans receive a broad liberal arts education. Opposes control of education by state and federal governments.
http://www.edaction.org/
Education Benchmarks
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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/
Good Schools
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Presentation of issues facing parents, taxpayers and teachers in reforming schools in the twenty-first century. Content heavily discusses Darwinism being taught in US public schools.
http://www.goodschools.com/
Grownup Training - Forbes.com
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Essay advocating that students should spend two years after high school getting some 'training' on how to behave and think like a grown up before going to college. This would enable them to know why they want to go to college, how lucky they are to be in college, and what they want to be 'when they grow up.'
http://www.forbes.com/2006/04/15/coll...
NPR : Testing Scandal in Texas Schools
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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/st...
Organization for Quality Education
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A group of Canadian parents, teachers, trustees, ratepayers and business people who are dedicated to reforming elementary and secondary education in the Province of Ontario. Also a good example of how a reform group should be formed.
http://www.oqe.org
The LEAD Center
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LEAD (Learning through Evaluation, Assessment, and Dissemination) provides evaluation services and other assistance to educational reform projects around the country,including downloadable information on a variety of past projects.
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~lead/
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