Behavior Medication
ADHD and Medication, ADHD Study: Study Points to More Targeted Use of R, Better Children through Chemistry, Connecticut Bars Schools from Suggesting Drugs for, Drugged Obedience in the School, Frontline: Medicating Kids, JS Online: Lawmakers hear stories of Ritalin overu, No More Ritalin, NYTimes.com - Schools' Backing of Behavior Dr, Over Diagnosis of ADHD, Overuse of Ritalin, and it
Bilingual Education
News and Media, Policy and Legislation, Bilingual Education (Ohio University CALL), Bilingual Education Report, Electronic Textbook: Bilingual Education, English Language Learner KnowledgeBase, History of Bilingual Education, Mercator-Education, National Council for Languages and International S, NYSBEN, NYTimes.com - Wave of Pupils Lacking English Strai, Ten Common Fallacies about Bilingual Education
Children's Opinions
Eye on Education: Students' Voices, I Really Hate School, School Daze: What Students Think About School, Students Against Testing, Students Speak Out!
Commercialism
Advertising / Commercial Ventures, BadAds.org, Branded for Life?, Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free School, Commercialism in Education Research Unit, FAIR - The Commercialization of Children's Pu, Fighting the cola wars in schools, Obligation, Inc., PTAs and Commercialism in Schools, Public Education: Commercial Activities in Schools
Creation and Evolution
Book On State History Altered After Evolution Vote, Senator Defends Boe Stance On Evolution, The Politics of Evolution
Diploma Mills
Associated Press: Online University that Gave Cat , Degree.net - Diploma Mills, Diploma Mills, Diploma Mills: Fraud in Higher Education, Fortune's Ask Annie - How to Spot a Fake Dipl, General Delivery University, How to Recognize Bogus Diploma Mill Schools, Is the Internet Becoming a Haven for Diploma Mills, Ivory Tower Ripoffs - Information about Diploma Mi, Position Paper on Diploma Mills
Education Reform
Block Scheduling, Compulsory Schooling, Curriculum Reform, Higher Education Reform, Reports and Research, Senior Year, Social Promotion, Standards and Accountability, Teacher's Issues, Urban School Reform
Equity
California State University, Long Beach: Center fo, Consortium for Equity in Standards and Testing, Cultural Knowledge Newsletter, Different Approaches: Equity in Higher Education, Ensuring Equity with Alternative Assessments, Equity and Diversity, Gender Equity in Education, Maasai Girls Education Fund, Multicultural Education Pavilion, National Association of Minority Engineering Progr
Grade Inflation
Changes in High School Grading Standards in Mathem, Fiscal Policy Effects on Grade Inflation, Grade Inflation and Corporatism, Grade Inflation: The Current Fraud, GradeInflation.com, Harvard Education Letter, Jacksonville.com: Thousands of Students Victims of, MSN: Don't Worry About Grade Inflation, NPR : Harvard Grade Inflation, NPR : Princeton Takes Steps to Fight 'Grade I
Home Schooling
Cato Institute: Homeschooling: Back to the Future?, Citizen Link - Focus on Social Issues - Education,, Goble, Home Education, Home Education Learning Magazine, Homeschool World, Kid Universe - The Curfew Police, More Information about Home School Legal Defense A, Seduction of Homeschooling Families, Speak Out
Literacy
Adult Literacy, Information Literacy, Adult Education Participation in North America: In, Applied Scholastics: Opening the Doors to Learning, Barksdale Reading Institute, Book 'Em, FIU Libraries, Laubach Literacy, Lindy Boggs National Center for Community Literacy, Literacy and Education, Literacy Information and Communication System (LIN, Literacy Online
Policy
AACTE Education Policy Clearinghouse, American Youth Policy Forum, Center on Education Policy, Comprehensive Legislative Update on Education (CLU, Education Policy Analysis, Education Policy Unit (EPU), Foreign Academics in Japan, Institute for Educational Leadership, Loving AmeriCorps to Death, National Center for Policy Analysis - Education Is
School Choice
Opposing Views, 4Choice - School Choice without Vouchers, Alliance for the Separation of School and State, Black Alliance for Education Options, Center for Education Reform, Charter Schools Development Center, Charter Schools Kiwi-style, Citizens For Educational Freedom, Class Acts, Cost of Education, Diligently to Thy Children: The Case for School Ch
School Finance
Committee for Education Funding, eSchool News, Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation, How Public-Private Partnerships Can Facilitate Pub, Redesigning School Finance: Moving the Money to t, The Folly of an Education Spending Race, U.S. Education Spending: 1999-2000 (2002 data)
Sex Education
Abstinence-Only, Does Sex Education Work?, Fight AIDS Now: Standardized Mandatory Sex Educati, Kaiser Daily Health Reports: Reproductive Health, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (NCPTP, Parents' Rights Coalition, Pregnancy Prevention, Rethinking Schools Online - Let's Talk About , Sexuality Education in the Schools: Issues and Ans, Sexuality Information and Education Council of the
Sports
College Sports by Charlie, College Sports Opinion, Did We Jump on the Wrong Bandwagon?, Men's Sports Jeopardized by Title 9, National Alliance for College Athletics Reform, NYTimes.com Magazine - Football is a Sucker's
Standardized Testing
State Testing, A Faculty Review of AQIP in Higher Education, Achieve, ACT, Inc., AFT - Hot Topics - Standards-Based Reform, An On-line, Interactive, Computer Adaptive Testing, Appropriate Use of High Stakes Testing in Our Nati, Brouhaha on National School Testing, Buros Institute, CAHRS: Index of Working Papers, Cheating Teacher Skews Schools' Test Scores
Almanac of Policy Issues: Education
Latest news, background information and links on U.S. elementary, secondary, and higher education issues.
America Counts
National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century.
Christian Science Monitor - Learning
News feed of the newspaper's weekly coverage of education topics.
CSMonitor.com - Before you cheer, sign here
Article on public school extracurricluar activity liability waivers.
CSMonitor.com - Learning
News coverage of education (K-12, college, and adult ed.).
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.
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.
Education Week on the Web
Weekly news on American education issues. Searchable archives.
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.
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.
Expect the Best from a Girl
This site supports a national campaign for educational equity for girls in their early teens.
From Inkwells to an Electronic Learning Community
Commentary on technological wonders as they impact education.
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.
Global Campaign for Education
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.
Heartland Institute - Education
Articles reporting on school issues and reform efforts in the US.
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.
In Your Right Mind
Focused on concern that the schools often fail students whose learning styles differ from the pattern labeled as "normal." Includes essays and an FAQ.
Independent Voices for Better Education
Dedicated to improving education and educational accountability.
International Correspondents in Education (ICE)
ICE is a world-wide network of freelance journalists and copy-writers who specialise in education issues.
Internet Sources for Higher Education Policy and R
Links to higher education policy centers (both university-based and freestanding), associations, publications, and other policy-related issues, from the American Council on Education.
Lessontutor.com - Educational Policy Issues
Essays about teaching and the politics of running schools.
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.
Media Visions
Articles and essays by journalist Ken Freed, covering issues related to literacy and educational technology.
Moral Issues in Education
Research articles and other essays regarding character education in the United States and Japan, by Taku Ikemoto
National Association of School Psychologists - Pos
Research-based statements covering most every controversial educational issue in US schools.
National Center for Policy Analysis
NCPA's conservative positions on educational issues.
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.
NoIndoctrination.org
Read student postings about sociopolitical bias in college courses and orientations.
NPR : Hearing Voices: High School's 'Qui
Producer Hilary Frank of the 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]
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.]
NPR Talk of the Nation : Intellectuals on Campus
Join host Neal Conan for a discussion about intellectualism on campus. [32:31 streaming audio broadcast]
NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Education Survey
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.
NYTimes.com - Sleep Is One Thing Missing in Busy T
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.]
NYTimes.com - With Cheating on the Rise, More Coll
Research shows less cheating at colleges with strong honor codes than at those without them, so some campuses are adopting codes for the first time. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.]
Organizational Development in Education
Optimizing schools, colleges, and universities through proven techniques such as cultural change, strategic measurement, process consulting, and other methods.
Our Nation's Kids: Is Something Wrong?
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.
People For the American Way - Education Issues
Issues and articles.
PEPE, Inc.
The only organization in the Philippines specifically devoted to the advancement and propagation of the theory and practice of popular education. As part of its commitment to human development, PEPE provides education services to a diverse set of sectors and groups - urban poor, peasants, lawyers, doctors, women, and indigenous peoples.
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.
Public Agenda Online
Articles on US education issues.
Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Educa
provides non-partisan research, information and communication on education to Canadian policy-makers, education partners and the public.
Teaching and Learning Celebration
Explores the best practices regarding current educational issues as presented by leading educators.
The Condition of Education (USA)
An integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000, 2001 and 2002.
The Emperor's Nakedness: Undressing Ignorance
Pedagogy needs a re-think.
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.
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher E
Provides action-oriented analyses of state and federal policies affecting education beyond high school.
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.