Advocates for at-risk middle and high school students by promoting increased education funding and high school reform to help make every child a graduate.
Resources from the Pacific Research Institute in support of parental choice in education, high academic standards and accountability, charter schools, teacher quality, and school finance reform.
Organization advocating standards-based school improvement programs. Includes news, issues information, research findings and curriculum materials.
Assists students and the general public in the independent analysis of higher education issues and policy choices.
Various articles on education and education reform, including the standards movement, school based management, and school councils.
Houston schools have been implicated in a cheating scandal after test scores in some Texas school districts made suspicious leaps. An inspector general is investigating at least 23 schools. Questions arose in 2004 after The Dallas Morning News found strong evidence that educators were helping students cheat at nearly 400 schools statewide. [5:12 streaming audio broadcast]
News and commentary about education reform issues in Minnesota and the nation.
Essay advocating that students should spend two years after high school getting some 'training' on how to behave and think like a grown up before going to college. This would enable them to know why they want to go to college, how lucky they are to be in college, and what they want to be 'when they grow up.'
Created to improve the national dissemination of information on comprehensive school reform.
Materials and activities, instructional strategies, interventions, and educational materials appropriate for teachers of youth in alternative or high-risk educational settings.
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