| 1. | Rose D. Friedman Foundation | | | A foundation supported by Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman. Advocates restructuring the education system to ensure educational service competition and free choice.
www.friedmanfoundation.org |
| 3. | School Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Education Reform | | | Latest worldwide research shows competitive schools serve families better than government run schools. Compares public school systems to free market alternatives based on vouchers, tax-credits, and privatization. Many essays, articles, book reviews, and complete book chapters included.
www.schoolchoices.org |
| 5. | Educational Issues | | | National Center for Policy Analysis whitepapers on education issues, particularly School Choice and teacher's union obstruction of Choice reforms.
www.ncpa.org |
| 6. | Floridians for School Choice | | | Action-oriented and effective advocacy for giving every family in Florida the opportunity to choose their child's school using public education funds as a scholarship.
www.floridians.org |
| 7. | Citizens For Educational Freedom | | | Promotes the primary rights of parents with regard to freedom of choice, justice and quality in education for all regardless of wealth, color or creed by allocating a fair share of educational tax dollars for each child to take to the school of the parents' choice while protecting parents and schools from undue government regulation and control.
www.educational-freedom.org |
| 8. | Education Policy Institute | | | Documented inside information on PTA and teacher unions. Education research and policy analysis from a public choice and pro-market perspective, plus expert revelations on teacher unions, collective bargaining in education, PTA issues, and education reform matters.
www.educationpolicy.org |
| 11. | School Futures Research Foundation | | | School Futures is committed to providing every child with a world-class education. Working in collaboration with public school systems throughout the United States, the not-for-profit foundation provides a competitive, performance-oriented alternative for students who are trapped in historically low performing schools.
www.schoolfutures.org |
| 12. | School Vouchers Links | | | Definitions of some common terms used regarding the issue as well as links to sites for and against school choice through vouchers.
www.ohiou.edu |
| 15. | Virtual Charters: Public Schooling at Home | | | K12, a Virtual charter school led by former education secretary, Bill Bennett, provides free curriculum, computers and connections for homeschoolers.
www.csmonitor.com |
| 16. | Unnatural Monopoly in Education | | | Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. Think-tank studies focus on economics of parents exercising their God-given rights as primary educators of children.
www.acton.org |
| 17. | Dr. Quentin Quade's essays on school choice | | | Part of Blum Center at Marquette University's effort to collect, organize, synthesize and distribute information regarding school choice efforts across the country.
www.marquette.edu |
| 18. | Excellent Education for Everyone | | | Organizing grassroots movement throughout NJ where spending is $10,975 but half the students in inner-city public schools don't graduate.
www.nje3.org |
| 19. | Resources for Teachers Needing Help | | | The American Society for Ethics in Education offers help to stop abuse and corruption where unions and school systems fail techers.
www.edethics.org |
| 20. | The Right Thing; Why liberals should be pro-choice | | | A Brookings Institution fellow, in The New Republic, discusses emerging political constituencies for Choice versus the cognitive dissonance created by our current government monopoly.
www.brookings.edu |
| 21. | The Charter School Project | | | A non-profit organization networking with charter schools to bring about much needed education reform.
www.charterproject.org |
| 22. | School Choice Act - MODEL LEGISLATION | | | Model School Choice legislation follows common sense objectives. Child-centered funding follows students, empowering parents and teachers, without vouchers.
4Brevard.com |
| 24. | 4Choice - A workable school choice plan | | | Common sense School Choice objectives, International Test Scores, John Gatto's shocking origins of public education, links to simple model legislation.
4Brevard.com |
| 25. | Kossor Education Newsletter | | | Psychological Treatment Programs Masquerading as Education revealed by a Certified School Psychologist who concludes that we must create alternative schools.
www.voicenet.com |
| 26. | Cost of Education | | | Cato Institute study: What Would a Voucher Buy. Documents the cost of public and private education.
www.cato.org |
| 30. | School Choice Research - Harvard University Index | | | Program on Education Policy and Governance presents research papers and executive summaries on the results of innovative US policies, including programs in Washington, DC, Dayton, Ohio, Cleveland, Ohio, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin
www.ksg.harvard.edu |
| 31. | The National Charter School Clearinghouse | | | Provides resources on Charter school research topics: funding, grant writing, fundraising tips, school accreditation, teacher certification, special needs, grants, charter school resources, school choice, and education reform.
www.ncsc.info |
| 32. | Michigan Union Accountability Act: | | | Mackinac Center for Public Policy takes aim at teacher unions as the main barrier to School Choice. See study, proposed legislation, and other policy research.
www.mackinac.org |
| 33. | Reason magazine | | | Well-hyperlinked article thoroughly exploring aspects of choice. Reason's Education archives contain dozens more articles spanning several years.
reason.com |
| 34. | Grandfather Education Report | | | Series presents graphs, data, and analysis that show disturbing trends in performance, cost, grade inflation, testing standards, union power, bureaucracy.
mwhodges.home.att.net |
| 37. | Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students | | | 20,760 student achievement test scores and their family demographics make this the largest study of home education to date. In every subject and at every grade level of the test batteries, home school students scored significantly higher than their counterparts. Conducted by Dr. Lawrence M. Rudner, Director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation.
www.hslda.org |
| 45. | School Reform News | | | Reprints of education articles reporting on school reform efforts nationwide from School Choice to Teacher Unions.
www.heartland.org |
| 46. | School Reform News | | | The Heartland Institute's national monthly outreach publication for school reformers, with 1000s of articles on vouchers, test scores and graduation rates.
www.heartland.org |
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