Alliance for Excellent Education
- http://www.all4ed.org
- 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.
Edaction
- http://www.edaction.org/
- PAC which works to ensure future Americans receive a broad liberal arts education. Opposes control of education by state and federal governments.
Education Benchmarks
- http://www.edbenchmarks.org/
- 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.
Good Schools
- http://www.goodschools.com/
- 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.
LEARN
- http://www.icehouse.net/lmstuter/
- What citizens need to know about education reform, school to work, early childhood education, and the restructuring of America.
MiddleWeb: Exploring Middle School Reform
- http://www.middleweb.com
- 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.
NPR : Testing Scandal in Texas Schools
- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4544036
- 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]
Organization for Quality Education
- http://www.oqe.org
- 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.
Project Appleseed
- http://www.projectappleseed.org/
- 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.
Redefining Education
- http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/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.
The LEAD Center
- http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~lead/
- 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.
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
- http://www.edexcellence.net/
- Supports research, publications, and action projects of national significance in elementary/secondary education reform, as well as significant education reform projects in Dayton, Ohio and vicinity.
