Open Directory - Society: Issues: Education
See also: This category in other languages: - Latest news, background information and links on U.S. elementary, secondary, and higher education issues. - National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century. - News coverage of education (K-12, college, and adult ed.). - Sandra Nichols writes about bilingual education, safe schools, small schools and the importance of trust and good communication between students, parents, teachers, and administrators. - Weekly news on American education issues. Searchable archives. - An address by Hilary Lips - recipient of the New Zealand Federation of University Women's Distinguished American Scholar Award - and distributed by Radford University's Center for Gender Studies. - Committed to helping public school personnel embrace the key concepts of equity and eliminate bias and discrimination in the context of their day-to-day activities. - Commentary on technological wonders as they impact education. - Collected essays presenting a libertarian perspective on the U.S. education system. Among the issues addressed are vouchers, compulsory attendance laws, and school violence. - Promotes education as a basic human right, and mobilizes public pressure on governments and the international community to provide free, compulsory public basic education for all people. Includes news, resources, and action plans. - Dedicated to improving education and educational accountability. - ICE is a world-wide network of freelance journalists and copy-writers who specialise in education issues. - Links to higher education policy centers (both university-based and freestanding), associations, publications, and other policy-related issues, from the American Council on Education. - Weblog of the freelance writer and former San Jose Mercury News columnist. Most entries are about education issues, both college and precollege. - Essays about teaching and the politics of running schools. - Articles and essays by journalist Ken Freed, covering issues related to literacy and educational technology. - Research articles and other essays regarding character education in the United States and Japan, by Taku Ikemoto - NPR presents a multi-part series on homework -- how educators are balancing mandates to improve test scores against a chronic lack of resources and the need for children to have enough time to be children. [Four segments, each in Realaudio format.] - Public approves of higher taxes for schools, but wants fairness in funding; support weak for vouchers and unclear for charter schools. Read or take the poll. - Research-based statements covering controversial educational issues in US schools. - Policies, tools, technical assistance and professional development that people everywhere can use to design and implement effective standards-based education and training systems. - Optimizing schools, colleges, and universities through proven techniques such as cultural change, strategic measurement, process consulting, and other methods. - A report on people's thinking in national issues forums. This report describes what happened as people deliberated about issues related to our nation's kids: the values they drew on, the considerations they took into account, the costs and consequences they weighed as they talked, listened to others, and had time to reflect on the issue. - An integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000, 2001 and 2002. - A nation-wide educational program to teach children and parents about the dangers of child molesters. Learn special methods to avoid these dangers. - Provides action-oriented analyses of state and federal policies affecting education beyond high school. - Commentary about a wide range of issues in American education. [Atom] - Commentary about a wide range of issues in American education. - A resource on the status of the right to education as outlined by the United Nations, supporting the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on education. Includes links to allied organizations. - Producer Hilary Frank of the Hearing Voices radio project presents the voices of some quiet kids, teenagers, who feel isolated from the cultural life of their high schools. The story originally aired on member station WBEZ's Chicago Matters. [4:07 streaming audio broadcast] (March 01, 2005) - Join host Neal Conan for a discussion about intellectualism on campus. [32:31 streaming audio broadcast] (March 04, 2003) - Many teenagers live in a state of chronic sleep deficit that can affect mood, behavior, schoolwork and reaction time. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.] (November 05, 2002) - Article on public school extracurricular activity liability waivers. (March 12, 2002) XML Feeds: - News feed of the newspaper's weekly coverage of education topics. [RSS]
