| 1. | Grandfather Education Report | | | A comprehensive review, in picture/graphic form,of the status and trends of education quality and its cost.
mwhodges.home.att.net |
| 2. | A Nation At Risk | | | The prominent 1983 report on American education, from the National Commission on Excellence in Education.
www.ed.gov |
| 4. | Student Achievement and School Design | | | Two real schools whose outstanding standardized test scores are natural outgrowths of intentional curriculum and program design.
www.topschools.com |
| 5. | Research for Action | | | A Philadelphia-based non-profit organization working in educational research and reform to insure opportunities and outcomes for all students.
www.researchforaction.org |
| 7. | Balancing Accountability and Local Control | | | Identifies school takeover efforts that have seen some success including increased accountability, expanded flexibility, and more involved local officials and parents.
www.rppi.org |
| 8. | Remedial Course Report in College | | | A report discussing the trends in the increasing percentage of university students requiring remedial courses, because of poor high school quality output.
mwhodges.home.att.net |
| 11. | Prisoners Of Time | | | Report of the U.S. National Education Commission on Time and Learning. Schools tend to structure the learning process according to time allotted, not the other way around. The Commission recommends various solutions to this problem.
www.ed.gov |
| 12. | Movement | | | A critical examination of formal education is presented from many perspectives: political, medical, psychological, and sociological. It makes a case that the student should be in charge of his own education.
www.education-reform.net |
| 13. | The Delphi Technique. | | | What is that new process being used at public forums to reach consensus? This method is used by many educators to squeeze the public out of the reform process.
www.eagleforum.org |
| 18. | MDRC Education Research | | | Education research focused on programs with the potential to improve education outcomes for large numbers of low-income students.
www.mdrc.org |
| 19. | Institute for Responsive Education | | | The Institute for Responsive Education is a research, policy, and advocacy organization that supports and encourages school, family, community partnerships to enable high quality educational opportunities for all children
www.responsiveeducation.org |
| | |