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(The) ASPIRA Association
National nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower the Puerto Rican and Latino community through advocacy and the education and leadership development of its youth.
(The) Center for Education Reform
A national, independent, non-profit advocacy organization that provides support and guidance to those working to bring fundamental reforms to their schools.
Center for Law and Education
Strives to make the right of all students to quality education a reality and to help enable communities to address their own public education problems effectively, with an emphasis on assistance to low-income students and communities.
FairTest
Advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open and educationally sound.
National Dropout Prevention Center
Website to provide resources that enable a new or enhanced appreciation for the importance of a quality education and a high school diploma.
National School Safety Center (NSSC)
Serves as a catalyst and advocate for the prevention of school crime and violence by providing information and resources and identifying strategies and promising programs which support safe schools for school children worldwide.
The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
An independent, non-partisan organization of Kentucky parents and citizens whose mission is to give Kentuckians a voice for vastly improved education. Recommends solutions to problems and informs the public through its publications, including guidebooks on school-based decision making and school law.
21st Century School Fund
Provides technical assistance, training and tools to non-profit organizations, school districts, and local, state and federal public agencies to support their work on urban school facility issues.
National Access Network
A non-profit education advocacy organization that works to strengthen the links between school finance litigation, education policy, and advocacy efforts, so as to promote meaningful educational opportunities for all children, especially those low-income and minority children currently being denied this opportunity.
Wrights Law
Provides up to date information about special education law and advocacy for children with disabilities.
Business/Community Partners
Business Coalition for Education Reform
(BCER) - national business-led organizations and state and local business-education coalitions that coordinate their efforts to increase the academic achievement of all students by promoting business involvement in education at the national, state and local levels.
Communities in Schools
champions the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people learn, stay in school, and prepare for life.
Civic Engagement
Give Kids Good Schools
A national campaign to guarantee a quality public education for every child in the nation. Through national activities and online resources, the campaign seeks to provide Americans with the information and tools they need to take action in their communities and improve their public schools.
Annenberg Institute for School Reform
Established at Brown University in 1993 to develop, share, and act on knowledge that improves the conditions and outcomes of schooling in America, especially in urban communities and in schools serving underserved children.
Collaborative Communications Group
Uses innovative communication strategies, products and technologies to bring people together for the improvement of organizations, schools and communities.
The Harwood Institute
A network for public ideas that brings people together to learn about the public realm and how to make progress in it.
National Issues Forum
Nationwide network of educational and community organizations that deliberate about nation-wide issues.
The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
An independent, non-partisan organization of Kentucky parents and citizens who mission is to give Kentuckians a voice for vastly improved education. Recommends solutions to problems and informs the public through its publications, including guidebooks on school-based decision making and school law.
Public Agenda
Nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen research organization.
Public Education Network (PEN)
Network of independent, community-based school reform organizations dedicated to building local communities' ability to effect and sustain long-term positive change in their schools and to hold schools accountable for quality public education.
Study Circles Resource Center
Helps communities bring large numbers of diverse people into democratic, face-to-face dialogue and action on critical public issues.
What Kids Can Do
Non-profit organization that documents the value of young people working with teachers and other adults on projects that combine powerful learning with public purpose. Integral to its mission is connecting the field of school reform, youth development, community development, service learning, and school-to-work.
Education Programs/Models
Accelerated Schools
Comprehensive school reform project designed to improve schooling for students in "at risk" situations. Accelerated school communities accelerate learning by providing all students with challenging activities that traditionally have been reserved only for students identified as gifted and talented.
New American Schools
Seeks to create schools that embody the best principles and practices of educational excellence, and to make these hallmarks of excellence the norm, not the exception.
SmallSchools Workshop
A group of educators, organizers and researchers collaborating with teachers, principals and parents, in the creation and support of small, innovative public schools.
Parent/Family Allies
Center for Public Education
Provides up-to-date research, data, and analysis on current education issues and explores ways to improve student achievement and engage public support to public schools.
Connect for Kids
A project of the Benton foundation to help people act as citizens, not just as consumers. Offers a public space on the Internet for adults - parents, grandparents, educators, policymakers and others - who want to make their communities for kids.
Family Friendly Schools
Committed to helping schools establish a culture that promotes shared responsibility for the academic achievement of all students.
Figure This!
National education campaign, funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation, to improve math achievement among middle school students through increased parental involvement. Provides fun, out-of-school math activities that families can work together.
GreatSchools, Inc.
Non-profit organization dedicated to providing the best, most comprehensive information about public schools. Features school profiles for all K-12 public schools in CA and AZ, tools to help visitors search for and compare schools, and content designed to help people understand, support and improve schools.
Home2School
Interactive website for parents to help their children with their schoolwork.
Just for Kids
Dedicated to raising academic standards and increase student achievement. This organization has three key initiatives to improve public education: data analysis, public information and training.
(The) George Lucas Educational Foundation
A nonprofit operating foundation that gathers and disseminates innovative models of K-12 teaching and learning. Uses digital technology to act as a web-based multimedia resource in an effort to stimulate active involvement and guide choices in school reform.
MegaSkills
Programs that serve diverse communities by training teachers to conduct workshops and provide home learning "recipes" for families.
Families and Advocates Partnership for Education (FAPE)
Funded by the U.S. DOE, this partnership project aims to improve the educational outcomes for children with disabilities by linking families, advocates and self-advocates to communicate the new focus of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA)
An independent, non-profit organization that advocates the right of every child to a quality education. IDRA draws together families as a strong voice to protect the rights of all children to have an excellent and equitable education.
(The) Center for Parent Leadership
Launched in 2004 by the Prichard Committee to provide thoughtful, interactive training and quality materials to enable parents to become decision making partners in their schools.
MiddleWeb
Website exploring the challenges of middle school reform and offers resources for educators and parents.
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Provides essential information to parents, professional and individuals with learning disabilities, promotes research and programs to foster effective learning and advocates for policies to protect and strengthen educational rights and opportunities
Wrights Law
Provides up to date information about special education law and advocacy for children with disabilities.
School Wise Press
Information to clarify how schools (California) work and how schools differ, and guides parents as to how they can more fully participate in school life.
Policy and Statistics
No Child Left Behind (US DOE)
Information regarding NCLB, the name for the most recent re-authorization by Congress of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).
Center for Education Policy (CEP)
Organization whose mission is to help Americans better understand the role of public education in a democracy and the need to improve the academic quality of public schools.
U.S. Department of Education Regional Laboratories: - educational research land development organizations supported by contracts with the U.S. Education Dept., Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI):
SEDL
serves Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas;
WestEd
serves Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah.
Professional Development & Educator's Organizations
Council for Exceptional Children
International professional organization dedicated to improving educational outcomes for individuals with exceptionalities, students with disabilities and/or the gifted.
Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA)
An independent, non-profit organization that advocates the right of every child to a quality education. IDRA offers many forms of assistance & works closely with schools to ensure prorams make a difference for students.
(The) George Lucas Educational Foundation
A nonprofit operating foundation that gathers and disseminates innovative models of K-12 teaching and learning. Uses digital technology to act as a web-based multimedia resource in an effort to stimulate active involvement and guide choices in school reform.
(The) Knowledge Loom
Presents research-based characteristics for successful professional development, along with examples of those characteristics in practice.
MiddleWeb
Website exploring the challenges of middle school reform and offers resources for educators and parents.
National Association for Gifted Children
Organization to support and develop policies and practices that encourage and respond to the diverse expressions of gifts and talents in children and youth in all cultures, racial ethnic backgrounds, and socioeconomic groups.
National Center for Education and the Economy
Policies, tools, technical assistance and professional development that people everywhere can use to design and implement effective standards-based education and training systems.
Phi Delta Kappan International
An international organization for professional educators dedicated to promote quality education, with particular emphasis on publicly supported education, as essential to the development and maintenance of a democratic way of life.
Responsive Classroom
Created by classroom teachers and backed by independent research, the Responsive Classroom is an approach to teaching and learning that fosters safe, challenging, and joyful elementary classrooms and schools.
Research and Publications
IDEA Partnership
A collaborative of more than 55 national organizations - dedicated to improving outcomes of students and youth with disabilities.
Center for Education Policy (CEP)
Organization whose mission is to help Americans better understand the role of public education in a democracy and the need to improve the academic quality of public schools.
(The) Education Trust
Promotes high academic achievement for all students, at all levels - kindergarten through college.
Education Week
Weekly publication dedicated to being the place on the World Wide Web for people interested in education reform, schools and the policies that guide them.
Harvard Education Letter
Bi-monthly newsletter in education, covers timely topics in depth and explores issues from the perspectives of both research and practice.
(The) Knowledge Loom
Presents research-based characteristics for successful professional development, along with examples of those characteristics in practice.
Public Agenda
Nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen research organization.
School Governance
National School Boards Association (NSBA)
Information to increase public awareness of NSBA, state school associations, local school boards and issues directly affecting public elementary and secondary education.
Standards
MiddleWeb
Website exploring the challenges of middle school reform and offers resources for educators and parents.
National Center for Education and the Economy
Policies, tools, technical assistance and professional development that people everywhere can use to design and implement effective standards-based education and training systems.
StandardsWork
A non-profit, education consultancy whose goal is to help communities and schools to work together to advance meaningful, lasting, and effective standards-based education reform.
Fair Test
Advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open and educationally sound.
Student Achievement
GEAR UP OH
Building a statewide collaborative initiative to increase college access and success for more Ohioans.
GEAR UP MS
Currently serving 31 school districts, GEAR UP MS aims to enhance the educational environment for Mississippi students enrolled in its program, working with communities whose residents have little experiences with colleges and universities.
Achieve, Inc.
Information on each state's progress in raising expectations for all students.
(The) Education Trust
promotes high academic achievement for all students, at all levels - kindergarten through college.
Gaining Early Awarness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) assists low-income middle school students aspire to, plan and prepare for college attendance. PPS is participates in two GEAR UP partnerships:
The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
An independent, non-partisan organization of Kentucky parents and citizens who mission is to give Kentuckians a voice for vastly improved education. Recommends solutions to problems and informs the public through its publications, including guidebooks on school-based decision making and school law.
Urban/Rural Reform
Annenberg Institute for School Reform
Established at Brown University in 1993 to develop, share, and act on knowledge that improves the conditions and outcomes of schooling in America, especially in urban communities and in schools serving underserved children.
No Excuses Campaign
A network of educational, political, and community leaders who practice and promote the very best in K-12 education among the poor.
The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
An independent, non-partisan organization of Kentucky parents and citizens whose mission is to give Kentuckians a voice for vastly improved education. Recommends solutions to problems and informs the public through its publications, including guidebooks on school-based decision making and school law.
Rethinking Schools
A non-profit, independent publisher of educational materials advocating the reform of elementary and secondary education, with a strong emphasis on issues of equity and social justice.
The Rural School & Community Trust
Non-profit educational organization dedicated to enlarging student learning and improving community life by strengthening relationships between rural schools and communities and engaging students in community-based public work.
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