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Open Directory: Society: Issues: Education
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 | Almanac of Policy Issues: Education www.policyalmanac.org/education/index.shtml
Latest news, background information and links on U.S. elementary, secondary, and higher education issues. |
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| America Counts ed.gov/americacounts/glenn
National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century. |
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| The Condition of Education (USA) nces.ed.gov/programs/coe
An integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000, 2001 and 2002. |
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| Edexhell - Success through Disqualification www.geocities.com/edexhell
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. |
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| Education Matters - Essays on Public Education www.tellingthetruth.com/education_matters
Sandra Nichols writes about bilingual education, safe schools, small schools and the importance of trust and good communication between students, parents, teachers, and administrators. |
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| Education Week www.edweek.org
Weekly news on American education issues. Searchable archives. |
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| Educational Pathways to Power www.runet.edu/~gstudies/sources/nz/keyaddr.htm
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. |
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| Equity Center www.nwrel.org/cnorse
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. |
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| Future of Freedom Foundation: Education www.fff.org/issues/education.asp
Collected essays presenting a libertarian perspective on the U.S. education system. Among the issues addressed are vouchers, compulsory attendance laws, and school violence. |
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| Global Campaign for Education www.campaignforeducation.org
Promotes education as a basic human right, and mobilizes public pressure on governments and the international community to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people. Includes news, resources, and action plans. |
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| Heritage Foundation Research: Education www.heritage.org/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. |
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| Joannejacobs.com www.joannejacobs.com
Weblog of the freelance writer and former San Jose Mercury News columnist. Most entries are about education issues, both college and precollege. |
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| The Kid-Safe Network www.kidsafenetwork.com
A nation-wide educational program to teach children and parents about the dangers of child molesters. Learn special methods to avoid these dangers. |
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| Media Visions www.media-visions.com/education.html
Articles and essays by journalist Ken Freed, covering issues related to literacy and educational technology. |
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| Moral Issues in Education www.hi-ho.ne.jp/taku77
Research articles and other essays regarding character education in the United States and Japan, by Taku Ikemoto |
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| National Center on Education and the Economy www.ncee.org
Policies, tools, technical assistance and professional development that people everywhere can use to design and implement effective standards-based education and training systems. |
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| NPR : Homework: How Much is Too Much? www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2003/mar/homework/index.html
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.] |
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| NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Education Survey www.npr.org/programs/specials/poll/education/education.front.html
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. |
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| Our Nation's Kids: Is Something Wrong? www.nifi.org/reports/detail_issues.aspx?itemID=301&catID=17
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. |
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| Popular EducationTool Kit www.flora.org/mike
Popular Education is a tool to raise people's critical awareness about the world around them, based on their personal experience. Resources and exercises using Popular Education techniques. |
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| The Quick and the Ed www.quickanded.com
Commentary about a wide range of issues in American education. |
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| The Right to Education Project www.right-to-education.org
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. |
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| NPR : Hearing Voices: High School's 'Quiet Kids' www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4557214
Producer Hilary Frank of the Hearing Voices radio project presents the voices of some quiet kids, teenagers, who feel isolated from the cultural life of their high schools. The story originally aired on member station WBEZ's Chicago Matters. [4:07 streaming audio broadcast] (March, 2005) |
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