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- BadAds.org
- Site has tools and suggestions to put an end to intrusive advertising. Includes information for parents, teachers, and kids.
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- Commercialism in Education Research Unit
- CERU, directed by Professor Alex Molnar, conducts research, disseminates information, and helps facilitate dialogue between the education community, policy makers, and the public at large about commercial activities in schools.
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- Obligation, Inc.
- Seeks to empower citizens with the resources they need to protect children from the popular culture.
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- Branded for Life?
- Christian Science Monitor report on marketing efforts to develop brand loyalty with children. (April 01, 2002)
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- Counterfeit Degrees.com
- Warns against the dangers of degree mills and offers alternative education solutions.
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- Degree.net - Diploma Mills
- Gives information on how diploma mills operate. Includes a list of the ways that consumers and employers are victimized.
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- General Delivery University
- This is a parody site which shows how easy it is to set up a diploma mill. Includes course catalog and the ability to download a diploma.
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- Position Paper on Diploma Mills
- The National Council Against Health Fraud provides this summary of diploma mills and why they are bad for the nutrition industry.
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- Wikipedia: Diploma Mill
- Online encyclopedia article describes common attributes of diploma mills and discusses their legality in different countries.
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- Center for Public School Renewal
- Provides information on how more educational freedom-of teachers to teach, parents to choose, and the public to know- will improve public schools.
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- Coalition of Essential Schools (CES)
- Works to create and sustain equitable, intellectually vibrant, personalized schools and to make such schools the norm of American public education.
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- Improve-Education.org
- Essays by novelist/educator Bruce Price on education, language, and cultural issues.
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- Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
- Organization advocating standards-based school improvement programs. Includes news, issues information, research findings and curriculum materials.
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- National Association for Prevention of Teacher Abuse
- Presents information and documents teacher abuse in the public schools across the US with the intent to force reform. Details actual experiences of abused teachers.
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- Project Appleseed
- A non-profit national campaign to improve public schools by increasing and organizing parental involvement in all 15,000 public school districts in the United States of America.
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- Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform
- Committed to assisting school districts in building the capacity needed to support change at the school and classroom levels.
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- The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence
- An independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization of Kentucky parents and citizens working to improve education in the Commonwealth at all levels.
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- Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
- Supports research, publications, and action projects of national significance in elementary/secondary education reform, as well as significant education reform projects in Dayton, Ohio and vicinity.
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- NPR : Testing Scandal in Texas Schools
- 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] (March 21, 2005)