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Education Issues Society
Education Issues Society
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- 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.
- 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.
- Pedagogy needs a re-think.
- Issues and articles.
- provides non-partisan research, information and communication on education to Canadian policy-makers, education partners and the public.
- 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.
- Essays about teaching and the politics of running schools.
- Collected essays presenting a libertarian perspective on the U.S. education system. Among the issues addressed are vouchers, compulsory attendance laws, and school violence.
- This site supports a national campaign for educational equity for girls in their early teens.
- Articles reporting on school issues and reform efforts in the US.
- Provides action-oriented analyses of state and federal policies affecting education beyond high school.
- Explores the best practices regarding current educational issues as presented by leading educators.
- Latest news, background information and links on U.S. elementary, secondary, and higher education issues.
- Massachusetts state colleges are a tremendous resource for the state, but the commonwealth's own Board of Higher Education seems bent on their destruction.
- 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
- Article on public school extracurricluar activity liability waivers.
- 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.
- Research-based statements covering most every controversial educational issue in US schools.
- 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 t
- NCPA's conservative positions on educational issues.
- 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.
- News coverage of education (K-12, college, and adult ed.).
- ICE is a world-wide network of freelance journalists and copy-writers who specialise in education issues.
- Focused on concern that the schools often fail students whose learning styles differ from the pattern labeled as "normal." Includes essays and an FAQ.
- 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.]
- Optimizing schools, colleges, and universities through proven techniques such as cultural change, strategic measurement, process consulting, and other methods.
- Read student postings about sociopolitical bias in college courses and orientations.
- From Edweek.
- A nation-wide educational program to teach children and parents about the dangers of child molesters. Learn special methods to avoid these dangers.
- Commentary on technological wonders as they impact education.
- National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century.
- Research articles and other essays regarding character education in the United States and Japan, by Taku Ikemoto
- 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.]
- Subject index of the think tank's policy papers on school choice, students' rights, charter schools, and other issues in U.S. education.
- 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.
- Join host Neal Conan for a discussion about intellectualism on campus. [32:31 streaming audio broadcast]
- An integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000, 2001 and 2002.
- Links to higher education policy centers (both university-based and freestanding), associations, publications, and other policy-related issues, from the American Council on Education.
- Weekly news on American education issues. Searchable archives.
- Sandra Nichols writes about bilingual education, safe schools, small schools and the importance of trust and good communication between students, parents, teachers, and administrators.
- Policies, tools, technical assistance and professional development that people everywhere can use to design and implement effective standards-based education and training systems.
- Dedicated to improving education and educational accountability.
- Articles on US education issues.
- 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 sect
- Articles and essays by journalist Ken Freed, covering issues related to literacy and educational technology.
- 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.]
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