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ALLIANCE FOR EXCELLENT EDUCATION
http://www.all4ed.org/index.html
IOWA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
http://www.state.ia.us/educate/
PARTNERSHIP FOR 21ST CENTURY SKILLS
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/
NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS /
NATIONAL ASSESSMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS:
http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nrc/reading_math_2005/
ORGANIZATION
FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/home
and
http://www.oecd.org/document/13/...html
ACHIEVE, INC.
http://www.achieve.org
Achieve, Inc. is an independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization
that helps states raise academic standards, measure performance
against those standards, establish clear accountability for results
and strengthen public confidence in our education system. ACHIEVE
believes that, “in order to ensure that our children receive
a better education, higher standards need to be set for all students
— not just the academic elite — and schools need to
be held accountable for helping their students meet those standards.”
ADVOCACY CENTER FOR CHILDREN’S EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS WITH STANDARDS
(ACCESS)
http://www.accessednetwork.org
ACCESS is a national initiative of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity,
Inc., that seeks to strengthen the links between school finance
litigation, public engagement, and the standards-based reform
movement.
AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES FOR TEACHER EDUCATION (AACTE)
http://www.aacte.org
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
is a national, voluntary association of colleges and universities
with undergraduate or graduate programs to prepare professional
educators.
AMERICAN
ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS (AASA)
http://www.aasa.org
The American Association of School Administrators (AASA) is the
professional organization for more than 14,000 educational leaders
across America and in many other countries. AASA’s mission
is to support and develop effective school system leaders who
are dedicated to the highest quality public education for all
children.
AMERICAN
DIPLOMA PROJECT
http://www.americandiplomaproject.org
The American Diploma Project (ADP), a partnership of four national
organizations and five states, is a collaborative effort to ensure
that American high school students have the knowledge and skills
necessary for success following graduation, whether in college,
the workplace or the armed services. Launched in 2001 with funding
from The Hewlitt Foundation, the organizations—Achieve,
Inc.; The Education Trust; The Fordham Foundation and The National
Alliance of Business—have worked with Indiana, Kentucky,
Massachusetts, Nevada and Texas to build constituencies and develop
policies to support a coherent K-16 system.
ADP has just published a set of end-of-high school benchmarks that integrate the knowledge and skills needed for success in college and the workplace. The project has also collected work samples from the workplace as well as freshman college courses that show the benchmarks in action.
ANNENBERG
INSTITUTE FOR SCHOOL REFORM
http://www.annenberginstitute.org
The Annenberg Institute for School Reform develops, shares and
acts on knowledge that improves the conditions and outcomes of
schooling in America, especially in urban communities and in schools
serving disadvantaged children.
THE
CARNEGIE FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TEACHING
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org
Andrew Carnegie founded The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching in 1905 “to do all things necessary to encourage,
uphold and dignify the profession of teaching.” The Foundation
is the only advanced study center for teachers in the world and
the third oldest foundation in the nation. A small group of distinguished
scholars conducts the Foundation’s research activities.
CENTER
FOR EQUITY AND EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION
http://ceee.gwu.edu/ceeehome.htm
The Center for Equity and Excellence in Education was established
in 1994 to: 1) conduct evaluation research and analysis of education
policies, programs and practices; 2) provide technical assistance
and training to states, school districts, schools and community
organizations to facilitate the successful implementation of comprehensive
school reform and school-wide programs; and 3) develop materials
and resources for practitioners to help them successfully address
the special needs of students who come from culturally, linguistically
and economically diverse backgrounds.
CENTER
FOR POLICY STUDIES IN EDUCATION
http://www.fsu.edu/~cpse
The Center offers a venue of support and encouragement for research,
evaluation and policy analysis on issues that are of critical
importance to education in Florida, throughout the nation and
beyond our borders. The Center is dedicated to creating an environment
conducive to high-quality intellectual inquiry and to the dissemination
of research findings and products that throw new light on the
major learning challenges of the 21st century.
CENTER
FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL POLICY (CREP)
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~coe_crep
The Center for Research in Educational Policy serves as a mechanism
for mobilizing community and university resources to address educational
problems. The Center’s research agenda is developed through
analysis of persistent or emerging issues in schools and their
communities, changes occurring in teacher education programs,
and recommendations from educational authorities serving on the
Center’s three advisory councils.
CENTER
FOR THE STUDY OF TEACHING AND POLICY (CTP)
http://www.ctpweb.org
The Center for the Study of Teaching and Policy (CTP) is a consortium
of five universities that has been created to investigate the
relation between excellent teaching and policymaking at national,
state and local levels. The five universities are: University
of Washington (lead institution), Stanford University, Teachers
College/Columbia University, University of Michigan and University
of Pennsylvania.
CENTER
FOR THE STUDY OF TESTING, EVALUATION, AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY (CSTEEP)
http://www.csteep.bc.edu
The Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational
Policy (CSTEEP) is an educational research organization that conducts
research on testing, evaluation, and public policy, studies to
improve school assessment practices, and international comparative
research. CSTEEP conducts its work on both small and large scales,
working with individual schools, districts, states and countries
to advance educational testing practices and policy and to improve
the quality and fairness of education.
CENTER
ON EDUCATION POLICY (CEP)
http://www.ctredpol.org
The Center on Education Policy (CEP) is the national, independent
advocate for public education and for more effective public schools.
The Center helps Americans better understand the role of public
education in a democracy and the need to improve the academic
quality of public schools. CEP does not represent any special
interests. Instead, CEP tries to help citizens make sense of the
conflicting opinions and perceptions about public education and
create the conditions that will lead to better public schools.
EDUCATION
TRUST
http://www.edtrust.org
Established in 1990 by the American Association for Higher Education
(AAHE) as a special project to encourage colleges and universities
to support K-12 reform efforts, the Education Trust has grown
into an independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to
make schools and colleges work for all of the young people they
serve. The Ed Trust believes that it is impossible to achieve
significant change in K-12 without simultaneously changing the
way that postsecondary education does business.
EDUCATION
WEEK
http://www.edweek.com/
American Education’s newspaper of record, Education
Week is published every week and is dedicated to covering
the top stories and issues in the realm of education.
THE
FINANCE PROJECT
http://www.financeproject.org
The Finance Project seeks to improve policymaking strategies aimed
at better results for children, families and communities by fostering
more effective policies, improved services, better management,
increased collaboration and community involvement. The Finance
Project specifically seeks to create more comprehensive community
services for families raising children, strengthen the links between
schools and community institutions, revitalize disadvantaged neighborhoods
and move vulnerable families from welfare to work. The Finance
Project offers several services in pursuit of these goals: Research
and Analysis, Policy Tool Development, Technical Assistance, Development
of Web-Based Clearinghouses, Management of Major Initiatives,
and Peer/Organizational Networking.
INTERSTATE
NEW TEACHER ASSESSMENT AND SUPPORT CONSORTIUM (INTASC)
http://www.ccsso.org/intasc.html
Created in 1987, the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support
Consortium (INTASC) is a consortium of state education agencies,
higher education institutions and national educational organizations
dedicated to the reform of the education, licensing and ongoing
professional development of teachers. INTASC’s mission is
to promote standards-based reform through the development of model
standards and assessments for beginning teachers.
IOWA
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
http://www.state.ia.us/educate/index.html
The state of Iowa Department of Education’s website. Data
and research links and other reports are available.
JUST
FOR THE KIDS, INC.
http://www.just4kids.org
Just for the Kids identifies high-performing schools and investigates
what they are doing to reach academic excellence. These schools
are then compared to other schools serving similar student populations
but with average performance. The organization conducts these
studies and publishes this information to provide a road map for
improvement efforts across the nation.
NATIONAL
BOARD FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STANDARDS (NBPTS)
http://www.nbpts.org
The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
works to strengthen the teaching profession and to improve student
learning in America’s schools through the establishment
of high standards for what accomplished teachers should know and
be able to do. It is developing a new system of advanced, voluntary
certification for teachers.
NATIONAL
CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY (NCEA)
http://www.nc4ea.org/index.cfm?pg=home
In 2001, Just for the Kids, the University of Texas at Austin,
and the Education Commission of the States (ECS), an interstate
compact that helps state policymakers shape education policies,
joined together to form a National Center for Educational Accountability.
This collaboration brings together a proven educational accountability
reporting and research model, the research strengths of a major
university, and policy information and state education leaders
from across the country. The National Center will focus on using
academic performance data to identify best practices in state
and local educational accountability systems; developing research
on best practices of high-performing districts, schools and classrooms;
and translating best practices research into cutting-edge resources
and policy models available to state leaders for implementation.
NATIONAL
CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS (NCES)
http://nces.ed.gov
Part of the U.S. Department of Education, the National Center
for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity
for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education
in the United States and other nations. NCES fulfills a Congressional
mandate to collect, collate, analyze and report complete statistics
on the condition of American education; conduct and publish reports;
and review and report on education activities internationally.
NATIONAL
CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
http://www.highereducation.org
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education promotes
public policies that enhance Americans’ opportunities to
pursue and achieve high-quality education and training beyond
high school. As an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization,
the National Center prepares action-oriented analyses of pressing
policy issues facing the states and the nation regarding opportunity
and achievement in higher education—including two- and four-year,
public and private, for-profit and nonprofit institutions.
NATIONAL
COMMISSION ON TEACHING & AMERICA’S FUTURE (NCTAF)
http://www.nctaf.org
The National Commission on Teaching & America’s Future
(NCTAF) was begun in 1994 as a bipartisan blue-ribbon panel with
the purpose of intensively examining the teaching profession.
It released two reports, that delineated a series of barriers
to improving the quality of teaching and put forth recommendations
in five broad and interlocking areas. Since 1996, the Commission
has been supported to work on promoting these recommendations
into actual policy and practice and has partnered with 15 states
and 9 urban school districts in this effort.
NATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES (NCSL)
http://www.ncsl.org
The National Conference on State Legislatures (NCSL) provides
comprehensive information and research on critical state issues
to legislative members and their staffs across the country through
its informative publications, meetings and legislative information
database.
NATIONAL
CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS (National PTA)
http://www.pta.org
The National PTA is the largest volunteer child advocacy organization
in the United States. A not-for-profit association of parents,
educators, students and other citizens active in their schools
and communities, PTA is a leader in reminding our nation of its
obligations to children. PTA has nearly 6.5 million members working
in 26,000 local chapters in all 50 states, the District of Columbia,
the U.S. Virgin Islands, and in the Department of Defense schools
in the Pacific and Europe.
NATIONAL
COUNCIL FOR ACCREDITATION OF TEACHER EDUCATION (NCATE)
http://www.ncate.org
The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
is the profession’s mechanism to help establish high-quality
teacher preparation. Through the process of professional accreditation
of schools, colleges and departments of education, NCATE works
to make a difference in the quality of teaching and teacher preparation
today, tomorrow and for the next century. NCATE is a coalition
of 33 specialty professional associations of teachers, teacher
educators, content specialists and local and state policymakers.
NATIONAL
EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (NEA)
http://www.nea.org
The National Education Association (NEA) is America’s oldest
and largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public
education, and proudly claims 2.5 million members who work at
every level of education, from preschool to university graduate
programs. NEA has affiliates in every state as well as in more
than13,000 local communities across the United States. NEA is
a volunteer-based organization supported by a network of staff
at the local, state and national level.
NATIONAL
GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION
http://www.nga.org
The National Governors Association (NGA) is the only bipartisan
national organization of, by, and for the nation’s Governors.
Through NGA, the Governors identify priority issues and deal collectively
with issues of public policy and governance at both the national
and state levels. The association’s mission is to provide
a forum for Governors to exchange views and experiences among
themselves; assistance in solving state-focused problems; information
on state innovations and practices; and a bipartisan forum for
Governors to establish, influence and implement policy on national
issues.
NATIONAL
SCHOOL BOARDS ASSOCIATION
http://www.nsba.org
The National School Boards Association (NSBA) engages in a public
relations program designed to increase public awareness of NSBA,
the state school board associations, local school boards and issues
directly affecting public elementary and secondary education.
This is achieved through scheduled press conferences and interviews,
dissemination of information to the print and electronic mass
media and through other activities.
NATIONAL
STAFF DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
http://www.nsdc.org
The National Staff Development Council (NSDC) is an 8,000-member,
nonprofit professional association committed to ensuring success
for all students through staff development and school improvement.
NSDC created their web pages especially for parents, policymakers
and other noneducators who are concerned about school reform issues.
They provide resources that will help people understand more about
the essential role played by high-quality staff development programs
in creating schools in which all students achieve high levels
of learning.
PRICHARD
COMMITTEE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
http://www.prichardcommittee.org
The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence is an independent,
nonpartisan organization of Kentucky parents and citizens whose
mission is to give Kentuckians a voice for vastly improved education.
The Prichard Committee speaks out to see that progress in education
is made; recommends solutions to problems; informs the public,
legislators, governors, and other education officials; stimulates
and works with local parents and citizens.
CENTER
FOR TEACHING QUALITY
http://www.teachingquality.org/
CTQ is a regional organization with a national agenda to ensure
that all students have access to high-quality teaching.
SOUTHERN
REGIONAL EDUCATION BOARD (SREB)
http://www.sreb.org
The Southern Regional Education Board is an organization whose
mission stresses the inseparable links between schools and colleges.
Its purpose is to help states improve the quality of education,
student opportunity and student achievement. SREB works toward
this goal in part through the collection and dissemination of
invaluable data on education in the South, as well as through
the research and analysis it performs.
U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION (U.S. DOE)
http://www.ed.gov
The U.S. Department of Education’s mission is to ensure
equal access to education and to promote educational excellence
for all Americans. This award-winning web site is part of an effort
to pursue that mission and help America reach the National Education
Goals.
U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (U.S. DOL)
http://www.dol.gov/
U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
http://stats.bls.gov/home.htm
NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE
CENTER FOR TEACHER QUALITY
http://www.ncctq.org/
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher
Quality (NCCTQ) is the premier national resource to
which the regional comprehensive assistance centers,
states, and other education stakeholders turn for
strengthening the quality of teaching—especially in
high-poverty, low-performing, and hard-to-staff
schools—and for finding guidance in addressing
specific needs, thereby ensuring highly qualified
teachers are serving students with special needs.
LEARNING POINT
ASSOCIATES
http://www.learningpt.org/
Learning Point Associates is a nonprofit educational
organization with more than 20 years of direct
experience working with and for educators and
policymakers to transform education systems and
student learning. Our vision is an education system
that works for all learners, and our mission is to
deliver the knowledge, strategies, and results to
help educators make research-based decisions that
produce sustained improvement.
