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A Measured Response: Americans Speak On Education Reform - http://www.ets.org/aboutets/americaspeaks/survey2001.html
Testing service-sponsored survey showing a majority of Americans want both increased federal funding and greater accountability in public education. |
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A Nation At Risk - http://www.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/index.html
The prominent 1983 report on American education, from the National Commission on Excellence in Education. |
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Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education - http://www.saee.ca
Non partisan research and policy analysis related to raising achievement in Canada's public schools. |
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Education Reform - The "Tough Standards" Movement - http://www.education-reform.net/
A critical examination of formal education is presented from many perspectives: political, medical, psychological, and sociological. It makes a case that the student should be in charge of his own education. |
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MDRC Education Research - http://www.mdrc.org/area_index_1.html
Education research focused on programs with the potential to improve education outcomes for large numbers of low-income students. |
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Research for Action - http://www.researchforaction.org/
A Philadelphia-based non-profit organization working in educational research and reform to insure opportunities and outcomes for all students. |
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A Nation Still At Risk - http://edreform.com/pubs/manifest.htm
A follow-up to "A Nation At Risk", from the Center for Education Reform. |
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School Funding Equity Mischief - http://home.att.net/~pcbworks/TandI.html
An essay about the root causes and the effects of wasteful spending in the public school system. |
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Franchise by Examination, Education and Intelligence - http://www.abelard.org/iqedfran/iqedfran.htm
The nature of intelligence is examined in terms of education and heredity . The author proposes radical changes to law and education to further human social advance. |
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Prisoners Of Time - http://www.ed.gov/pubs/PrisonersOfTime/index.html
Report of the U.S. National Education Commission on Time and Learning. Schools tend to structure the learning process according to time allotted, not the other way around. The Commission recommends various solutions to this problem. |
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Grandfather Education Report - http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/education.htm
A comprehensive review, in picture/graphic form, of the status and trends of education quality and its cost. |
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Student Achievement and School Design - http://www.topschools.com/TestScores.htm
Two real schools whose outstanding standardized test scores are natural outgrowths of intentional curriculum and program design. |
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Remedial Course Report in College - http://home.att.net/~mwhodges/remediation.htm
A report discussing the trends in the increasing percentage of university students requiring remedial courses, because of poor high school quality output. |
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The Delphi Technique. - http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/1998/nov98/focus.html
What is that new process being used at public forums to reach consensus? This method is used by many educators to squeeze the public out of the reform process. |
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National Issues Forum - Education - http://www.nifi.org/discussion_guides/guides.aspx?catID=10
A non-partisan site that presents summary information and opposing viewpoints on education reform issues. |