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Society: Issues: Education is intended for websites dealing with public issues related to education: access to education, financing of education, government control of schools, legislation, policy, news, etc. Sites specifically intended for students or teachers, or with a classroom focus, should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory of Reference: Education. Subcategories of Society:Issues:Education and cross-linked categories include Bilingual Education, Education Reform, Home Schooling, Literacy, School Choice (vouchers, etc.), Sex Education, and Church-State Relations:Public Schools. (As of 6 April 1999.)

Subcategories

• Behavior Medication
• Bilingual Education
• Charter Schools
• Children's Opinions
• Clothing and Uniforms
• Commercialism
• Corporal Punishment
• Creation and Evolution
• Development
• Diploma Mills
• Education Reform
• Equity
• Grade Inflation
• Higher Education
• Home Schooling
• Literacy
• Policy
• School Choice
• School Finance
• School Safety
• School Violence
• Screening or Banning of Reading Materials
• Sex Education
• Sports
• Standardized Testing

Resources in This Category

• Almanac of Policy Issues: Education

  http://www.policyalmanac.org/education/index.shtml
  Latest news, background information and links on U.S. elementary, secondary, and higher education issues.

• American Institutes for Research: InformED Blog

  http://educationpolicy.air.org/blog/
  Commentary about a wide range of issues in American education.

• Christian Science Monitor - Learning

  http://www.csmonitor.com/rss/learning.rss
  News feed of the newspaper's weekly coverage of education topics.

• CSMonitor.com - Before you cheer, sign here

  http://csmonitor.com/2002/0312/p11s01-lecl.html
  Article on public school extracurricular activity liability waivers.

• CSMonitor.com - USA Education

  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education
  News coverage of education (K-12, college, and adult ed.).

• Education Week

  http://www.edweek.org/
  Weekly news on American education issues. Searchable archives.

• Educational Pathways to Power

  http://gstudies.asp.radford.edu/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.

• Equity Center

  http://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.

• From Inkwells to an Electronic Learning Community

  http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JTE/v10n2/laporte.html
  Commentary on technological wonders as they impact education.

• Global Campaign for Education

  http://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.

• Independent Voices for Better Education

  http://www.ivbe.org/
  Dedicated to improving education and educational accountability.

• International Correspondents in Education (ICE)

  http://www.ice-online.net/
  ICE is a world-wide network of freelance journalists and copy-writers who specialise in education issues.

• Joannejacobs.com

  http://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.

• Lessontutor.com - Educational Policy Issues

  http://www.lessontutor.com/policyissues.html
  Essays about teaching and the politics of running schools.

• Media Visions

  http://www.media-visions.com/education.html
  Articles and essays by journalist Ken Freed, covering issues related to literacy and educational technology.

• Moral Issues in Education

  http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/taku77/
  Research articles and other essays regarding character education in the United States and Japan, by Taku Ikemoto

• National Center on Education and the Economy

  http://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.

• NPR : Hearing Voices: High School's 'Quiet Kids'

  http://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]

• NPR Talk of the Nation : Intellectuals on Campus

  http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1182223
  Join host Neal Conan for a discussion about intellectualism on campus. [32:31 streaming audio broadcast]

• NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Education Survey

  http://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.

• NYTimes.com - Sleep Is One Thing Missing in Busy Teenage Lives

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/05/health/children/05SLEE.html
  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.]

• Organizational Development in Education

  http://www.toolpack.info/articles/education.html
  Optimizing schools, colleges, and universities through proven techniques such as cultural change, strategic measurement, process consulting, and other methods.

• The Condition of Education (USA)

  http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/
  An integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000, 2001 and 2002.

• The Kid-Safe Network

  http://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.

• The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education

  http://www.highereducation.org/
  Provides action-oriented analyses of state and federal policies affecting education beyond high school.

• The Right to Education Project

  http://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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