Policy Analysis

U.S. Department of Education

Goals 2000

General informational sites:

Sites related to controversy over GOALS 2000:

Goals 2000 Technology Focus

Technology (White House)

The Role of Technology in Education - Executive Office of the President

President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology

Learning With and About Technology

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Bilingual Education

School to Work

Family Involvement

America Goes Back to School

Improving America's Schools Act of 1994 (IASA)

Vouchers, Choice, and Privatization

Choice and Voucher at http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/choice.htm

Privatization of Public Education at http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/private.htm

What May Be Lost Through Privatization (Dec. 11, 1996) at http://www.edweek.org/ew/current/15ascher.h16

People for the American Way

Article About the Ohio Court of Appeals Declaring That State's Voucher

Program Unconstitutional

AFT Research Group's Articles on Vouchers

The Heartland Organization

U.S. Representative J.C. Watts of Oklahoma argues for school vouchers

A libertarian debate about school vouchers from the Cato Institute

Hard Lessons: Public Schools and Privatization (Twentieth Century Fund) and

"School Choice: A Special Report," Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1992 are recommended additional readings.

The Carnegie Foundation report, with its foreword by the late Ernest Boyer, hits on the key elements of choice as part of the decade-long push for school renewal.]

Standards

Standards What Are They? at http://www.ed.gov/pubs/IASA/newsletters/standards/pt1.html

State Content and Student Performance Standards Setting Process at http://www.ed.gov/pubs/IASA/newsletters/standards/pt2.html

State Curriculum Frameworks and Content Standards at http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/statecur/

(Also see history standards, standards, and assessment by conducting a web search in edweek.)

Apple: Review of Ravitch - National Standards at http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/v4n10.html

National Education Goals

(Also see Improving Education Through Standards-Based Reform by McLaughlin and Shepard with O'Day - Cubberley Library)]

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Charter Schools

http://www.uscharterschools.org

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The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendment

ecrii Early Childhood Research Institute On Inclusion

Preschoolers with and without disabilities learning together

Early Childhood Research Institute on Measuring Growth and Development

Ebonics

See Prof. John Baugh's page: http://www.stanford.edu/~jbaugh/ebonics.html

Also see: Charles Filmore's piece for the Center for Applied Linguistics: http://www.cal.org/ebonics/ebfillmo.htm

See Washington Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/

(in "select a section" - select "search" in top box - then select "go" - then select "find an article" from the post - then select "headline: ebonics" - then select "search" and "ok")

There is also two pieces in the San Jose Mercury - Sunday, January 5, 1997, p1A. and 8A; and p 1B and 2B.

Prof. Rickford has an excellent piece in Science (1997).

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Additional Recommended On-line Sites/Resources

Education Policy Analysis Archives at http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/

The Washington Post at http://www.washingtonpost.com/