Issue Research: Education

• American Association of School Administrators - www.aasa.org
  
• American Association of University Women - www.aauw.org
  Promotes equity and education for women and girls.
• American Council on Education - www.acenet.edu
  Advocates on behalf of colleges and universities before Congress, the federal government, and federal and state courts.
• American Federation of Teachers - www.aft.org
  Works with teachers and other educational employees at the state and local level.
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development - www.ascd.org
  An international, nonprofit, nonpartisan education association committed to the mission of forging covenants in teaching and learning for the success of all learners. The site includes issue briefs in different areas of education and links to state departments of education.
• The Boston College Center for International Higher Education - www.bc.edu/cihe
  Provides information and support for international initiatives in higher education. Focusing especially on academic institutions in the Jesuit tradition, the Center is dedicated to comparative and international higher education worldwide. It contains an index of academic resources, and online newsletter, and Internet directories.
• Center for Education Reform - edreform.com
  A national non-profit education advocacy group and an active broker in providing resources, support, and guidance for school reform to communities across the U.S. Includes information and links on school reform.
• The Center for Law and Education - cleweb.org
  Strives to make the right of all students to quality education a reality throughout the nation and to help enable communities to address their own public education problems effectively, with an emphasis on assistance to low-income students and communities.
• The Citizen's Guide to Education Reform - www.schoolchoices.org
  The problems afflicting public schools are familiar to people all over the world: from low academic achievement to sky-high spending, and a declining ability to meet the needs of families. Despite countless reform efforts, we seem to have gotten lost somewhere on the road to educational excellence... The purpose of this website is to help readers reach their own conclusions about school choice by collecting some of the most important evidence and opinion on both sides of the issue.
• Education Consumers Clearinghouse - www.education-consumers.com
  "Education facts and networking for parents, policymakers, and taxpayers."
• Education News - www.educationnews.org
  "The internet's #1 source for education news and information."
• Education Policy Analysis Archives - olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa
  Describes itself as "a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published entirely electronically. It is published at the College of Education of Arizona State University."
• Education Policy Institute - www.educationpolicy.org
  EPI strives to promote greater parental choice in education, a more competitive education industry, a more creative role for the for-profit sector, and other policies that address the problems of both public and private schools.
• Education Week - www.edweek.org
  Education Week on the Web is American Education's on-line newspaper of record. Our goal is nothing short of being the place on the World Wide Web for people interested in education reform, schools, and the policies that guide them.
• EdWeb - edweb.gsn.org
  Explores the use of the Internet and the World-Wide Web as they are related to education. "With EdWeb, you can hunt down on-line educational resources around the world, learn more about trends in education policy and information infrastructure development, examine success stories of computers in the classroom."
• ELNET: Educational Leadership Network - www.wiche.edu
  "An electronic information network. Its primary objective is to serve as a broadcasting and networking tool for university presidents; rectors and other campus administrators; educational policymakers; comparative education researchers; representatives of foundations; corporate sector leaders and representatives of industry associations; students and faculty -- all who are committed to forming a community that supports trinational education initiatives in the western United States, Mexico, and Canada."
• Home School Legal Defense Association (MI page) - www.hslda.org
  "HSLDA is a nonprofit national membership organization of families who homeschool their children. HSLDA is organized as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, tax-exempt organization under the rules of the IRS. The Federal Relations Department (formerly known as the National Center for Home Education) is a department of Home School Legal Defense Association that focuses on federal legislation, grassroots lobbying, and research."
• House Committee on Education and the Workforce - www.house.gov/eeo
  
• Information Network for Christian Homes - www.inch.org
  "Since 1984 our mission has been to serve families interested or involved in home education by providing the information, resources and encouragement needed to teach their children at home in the state of Michigan, and to work to ensure the continued freedom to do so."
• International Society for Technology in Education - www.iste.org
  Professional organization dedicated to the improvement of education through the use of computer-based technology.
• KidSource OnLine for Education - www.kidsource.com/kidsource/pages/Education.html
  "An information service for busy parents and educators, we provide timely, interesting, and unique information about children in a manner that respects and understands the limited time that parents have." The site contains articles relating to the issue of children's education, links to educational Web sites, and educational news.
• Learning Disabilities Association - www.ldanatl.org
  "Dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for all individuals with learning disabilities and their families, to alleviating the restricting effects of learning disabilities, and to supporting endeavors to determine the causes of learning diabilities."
• Michigan Association of Public School Academies - www.charterschools.org
  MAPSA's mission is to provide leadership to advance quality and promote choice in education.  MAPSA serves this purpose through its support of a strong community of chartered public schools and their supporters, committed to offering every Michigan child an opportunity to learn.
• Michigan Education Association - www.mea.org
  "The Michigan Education Association (MEA) is a self-governing education association, representing more than 157,000 teachers, faculty and education support staff throughout the state. Through collective action, MEA is dedicated to the purpose of serving our members’ employment goals, interests and needs, while advocating for quality public education. By so doing, MEA is committed to creating and maintaining an effective education system that: Supports the development of successful, empowered students; advances the principles of democracy, human and civil rights; meets the needs of our global society; and improves the quality of life for all."
• National Dropout Prevention Center - www.dropoutprevention.org
  "Located at Clemson University, the NDPC functions as a clearinghouse and research center as well as a provider of technical assistance. Our mission is to reduce America's dropout rate by meeting the needs of youth in at-risk situations."
• National Education Association - www.nea.org
  "Professional organization and labor union of elementary, secondary, and higher educational employees and others interested in education. [It] promotes quality education and advocates human, civil and economic rights."
• National Institute for Literacy - novel.nifl.gov
  Part of a system that "will enable every adult with literacy needs to receive services of the highest quality." This organization provides literacy forums and listservers, current events and information, literacy resources, and an Internet directory of literacy and adult education resources.
• The News Hour with Jim Lehrer: Backgrounders - www1.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/education.html
  Provides the transcripts from education-related stories that have aired on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer since January 1996.
• Partnership for Public Education Homepage - www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general
  "The NAACP and People for the American Way formed a partnership for public education because we feel it is time to reclaim our public schools, and our national committment to the opportunity of every child."
• School Choices - www.schoolchoices.org
  School Choices is a website advocating a change in the education system away from government run schools and towards a free market system, incorporating vouchers and school choice. The site also has information, research and studies from the opposing viewpoint.
• Supreme Court Decisions Search: Education - www.law.cornell.edu/syllabi?education
  
• Teacher Choice - www.adti.net/gw-education.html
  This is Alexis de Tocqueville Institution's "Teacher Choice" web site, which contains materials and links relating to teacher unions and issues affecting teacher choice.
• Teacher's College Record - www.tcrecord.org
  "A journal of research, analysis (and) commentary in field of education." On this page there are several editions of the journal with articles discussing educational topics.
• Tutor Linker - www.tutorlinker.com
  
• The United States Student Association - www.usstudents.org
  An "advocate for post-secondary students' rights. Information [is] available on current legislation and issues affecting students."