Education
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- Frontline: Secrets of the SAT
- Television documentary focusing on the college-entrance Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT).
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- National Center for Fair and Open Testing
- A nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to preventing the misuse of standardized tests.
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- OECD PISA Online
- The new Programme for International Student Assessment of the OECD, involves dozens of countries testing their 15 year olds' skills and knowledge as they approach the end of compulsory education.
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- Richard Phelps
- Personal site of Richard Phelps which reviews over the books he has written and several other resources.
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- TIMSS and PIRLS International Study Center at Boston College
- Home of the TIMSS: Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study and PIRLS: Progress in International Reading Literacy Study.
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- GI Forum, et al. v. Texas: Psychometric Evidence
- Description of a legal case testing whether testing unfairly discriminates against minorities. [PDF] (November 01, 1999)
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- Massnews.com - Bilingual Education Troubled Program
- Massachusetts has over 40,000 bilingual education students, and is one of only nine states in the US to require bilingual education in all districts where there is a sufficient number of students who are not proficient in English.
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- U.S. Bilingual Education Funds Ruled Out for Ebonics Speakers
- Washington Post article about the Clinton administration's declaration of "black English" as a form of slang, and therefore programs which teach otherwise cannot do so with federal money intended for bilingual education. (December 25, 1996)
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- Education Policy Analysis Archives - Block Scheduling Effects on a State Mandated Test of Basic Skills
- Study which examined the effects of a tri-schedule on the academic achievement of students in a high school. The tri-schedule consists of traditional, 4x4 block, and hybrid schedules running at the same time in the same high school. Effectiveness of the schedules was determined from the state mandated test of basic skills in reading, language, and mathematics.
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- The Problem With Block Scheduling
- The Case Against Block Scheduling: An Educational Fad that Hurts Academic Performance.
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- AKSES Writing System
- A phonemic writing system ensuring that children read and write all words in their oral vocabularies by the first grade, and that adults use written English as easily as speech.
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- Citizenship Curriculum
- Advocating reform through citizenship education. Curriculum outline, with related commentary by the author.
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- International Center for Leadership in Education
- Resources for sustained school reform. Our curriculum matrix produces rigorous and relevant education for all students.
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- Overcoming Obstacles
- The Community for Education Foundation is a not-for-profit education reform organization bringing relevant skills instruction to young people through this program.
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- A Student's-Eye View of Education's Fall and Decline
- Explores why a more innovative and progressive approach to education is held back by an institutional mindset that is threatened by, and even hostile to, revolutionary changes.
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- American Council of Alumni and Trustees
- Committed to academic excellence and freedom of expression in higher education.
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- Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform
- Recommends revision of the U.S. Higher Education Act which denies or delays financial aid to students with drug offenses.
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- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
- "FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom" in American universities.