The idea of this page is to list organizations and individuals serving and influencing education. For now I’m making it the dumping ground of education links that have recently caught my eye. I’ve not embedded links into text yet, so it ain’t pretty. Sorry.

Council of Chief State School Officers resources on NCLB
http://www.ccsso.org/federal_programs/NCLB/index.cfm

US Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/

Achievement for All; Solving Crucial Problems Through Education Research, a RAND project
http://www.rand.org/multi/achievementforall/

Education Next: A journal of opinion and research, published by Hoover Institution
http://www.educationnext.org/

Education Pilicy Analysis Archives, a peer reviewed journal published at Arizona State through its Ed Policy Studies Lab
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/

Education Week newspaper, online edition
http://www.edweek.org/

ERIC (aka Education Resources Information Center) is coming back!
http://eric.ed.gov/

Reforming the Reformers: E.D. Hirsch’s The Schools We Need, a fascinating piece on Core Knowledge and Hirsch’s views, by Huntington Lyman(?)
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~hl5s/hirsch.html

Moving Ideas is an issues-oriented exploration published by The American Prospect, a progressive/liberal magazine. The January 2004 topic was Educating America.
http://www.movingideas.org/issuesindepth/education.html

Active Learning Practices for Schools (ALPS), a Harvard Project Zero Resource, is community space for reflecting and improving one’s thoughts on education and teaching
http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/

Education World ought to be my dream come true; somehow it’s not. But it is very useful.
http://www.educationworld.com/

Funderstanding’s concise and thoughtful collection of resources for Engaging Kids
http://www.funderstanding.com/engaging_kids.cfm

ABCs of LD and ADHD by LDOnLine is straightforward
http://www.ldonline.org/abcs_info/articles-info.html

I grew up with notion of community schools being fundamental and good. Here’s 2004 version of a Community Schools network
http://www.communityschools.org/

http://www.eduwonk.com/

http://www.joannejacobs.com/

Brian's Education Blog
http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/education/

Nobody Knows Anything web journal
http://www.nobody-knows-anything.com/

Washington post column, Class Struggle (requires free registration)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/columns/classstruggles/

Kimberley Swygert's Number 2 Pencil is a personal blog focused on education, testing, and reform. Author is a
psychometrician.
http://www.kimberlyswygert.com/

Educational Bloggers Network
http://www.ebn.weblogger.com/

Coalition of Essential Schools
http://www.essentialschools.org/

FairTest: The National Center for Fair & Open Testing
http://www.fairtest.org/

I took a few classes through University of San Diego Continuing Ed. Now they offer online courses.
http://www.usd-online.org/

The Internet is so poorly used in many schools. Check out WebQuests as they ought to happen
http://www.ozline.com/webquests/intro.html
 

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