School Reform Resources:

Useful Web Sites:

School Reform Resources:

An Educator’s Guide to School Reform: http://www.aasa.org/Reform/index.htm

School Reform Networks (Center for Educational Renewal): http://llanes.panam.edu/reform/srn/srn5

Annenberg Institute for School Reform: http://www.annenberginstitute.org/

Six Promising Schoolwide Programs: http://www.ascd.org/publications/ed_update/200201/15.html

High Schools that Work: http://www.sreb.org/programs/hstw/hstwindex.asp

National Institute for Urban School Improvement: http://www.inclusiveschools.org/

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

100 Best High Schools Newsweek 2003: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A44211-2003May27&notFound=true

School Reform Models: http://www.nwrel.org/

Penn State University Educational Systems-This site offers a broad overview of school reform including models of successful reforms and articles by leading educational reform advocates such as Sizer.
http://www.ed.psu.edu/insys/ESD/ESD.html

The George Lucas Educational Foundation-This site looks at school reform with a special emphasis on technology. It also offers a link to Edutopia, a magazine for teachers.
http://www.glef.org/

By Topic:

National

Assessment – standardized testing: http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0205sir.htm

Brown vs. Board of Education Update NC 2003: NC Forum

Resegregation in Public Schools: http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/deseg/reseg_schools02.php

Funding National Level: http://www2.edtrust.org/NR/rdonlyres/EE004C0A-D7B8-40A6-8A03-1F26B8228502/0/funding2003.pdf

High School Achievement Report 2002: http://www.ets.org/research/pic/frontier.pdf

High School Diploma. Making it more than an empty promise. http://www2.edtrust.org/NR/rdonlyres/ABE868B6-2800-4347-B56E-954C7D32A209/0/Edu_trust_west_booklet.pdf

Graduation Cut Required Credits:

National Board Certification: http://www.nbpts.org

Opinion Poll, Phi Delta Kappan 2002: http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/k0209pol.htm

Out of Field Teaching 2002: http://www2.edtrust.org/NR/rdonlyres/8DE64524-592E-4C83-A13A-6B1DF1CF8D3E/0/AllTalk.pdf