Recommended Links
(updated 3/3/08)
Schools Reform Organizations
Alliance for Childhood
"The Alliance for Childhood promotes policies and practices that support children’s healthy development, love of learning, and joy in living. Our public education campaigns bring to light both the promise and the vulnerability of childhood. We act for the sake of the children themselves and for a more just, democratic, and ecologically responsible future."
Center for Collaborative Education
"The mission of the CCE is to transform schools to ensure that all students succeed. We believe that schools should prepare every student to achieve academically and make a positive contribution to a democratic society. CCE partners with public schools and districts to create and sustain effective and equitable schools."
Coalition for Essential Schools
"CES strives to create and sustain a network of personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools."
The Educator Roundtable
"The purpose of The Educator Roundtable is to improve education-related legislation by amplifying the informed perspectives of professional educators; local, state, and national board associations; univeristy policy and education departments; local PTA's, and other organizations committed to high quality public schools."
FairTest
"The National Center for Fair & Open Testing works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial."
The Forum for Education and Democracy
"The Forum for Education and Democracy is devoted to supporting educational policies and practices that prepare the young for a life of active and engaged citizenship."
In Defense of Childhood
"A campaign to restore creative play and hands-on learning to preschools and kindergartens.
A project of New York Voices of Childhood and the Alliance for Childhood"
On the Earth Productions
"On the Earth Productions is a media production company that is dedicated to informing the public about important ethical, environmental and political issues that affect our every-day lives."
Schools I Like (that have websites)
Landmark High School
New York, NY
June Jordan School for Equity (High School)
San Francisco, CA
Mission Hill School (K-8)
Boston, MA
New City School (K-8)
Longbeach, CA
New Day Academy (6th-12th)
New York, NY
Sherman Oaks Community Charter School (K-6)
San Jose, CA
Urban Acaademy (High School)
New York, NY
Vanguard High School
New York, NY
Other Sites
Book Smarts
BOOK SMARTS offers brief but informed discussion of books on critical issues in education.
Mike Klonsky of the Small Schools Workshop
Blog: "Sharing some ideas about public education reform, small schools, and ed-politics in general"
Nicholas Meier
Professor of Education
Commentary, education books bibliography and links on progressive and bilingual/multicultural education and politics
Mike Rose Blog
Nationally recognized American education scholar. noted for his significant contribution to the study of literacy and for his insights into the struggles of working-class America.
TeacherKen -Blog
from a public HS teacher (Gov't, Religion, Soc. Issues), who is eclectic (Dem-leaning) politically and Quaker (& open) on everything else. Hope you enjoy what you find here.
Teaching & Learning EdBlog
"Your connectin to professinal develoment from New York public television"
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