Archived Responses
* Can you give me some information on the history of education reform in the United States?
* Where can I find information on research about and initiatives for turning around low performing
schools?
* Meaningful Student Involvement: Guide to Inclusive School Change
* The Annenberg Challenge: Lessons and Reflections on School
Reform
* The Question of the Student in Educational Reform
* School Reform Proposals: The Research Evidence (2002)
* Northwest Regional Education Laboratory -- Catalog of School Reform Models
* Studies of Education Reform
* School Choices: The Citizen's Guide to Education Reform
* An Educator's Guide to Schoolwide Reform
* Center for Education Reform
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National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform Online Comprehensive School Reform Library
* Comprehensive Center Network
* Issues Page: Privatization of Public Education
* Voices From the Field: Stories of Reform in the Words of Practitioners
* ERIC Digest: Systemic Education Reform (1994)
* ERIC Digest: Education Reform and Students at Risk (1997)
* ERIC Digest: Fiscal Policy Issues and School Reform (1990)
* Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
* Annenberg Institute for School Reform
* America's Choice School Network
* National Center For Restructuring Education, Schools, And Teaching
* Center for Leadership in School Reform
* National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform
* The Education Leaders Council
* Magnet Schools of America
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printresponses.cgi/Virtual/Qa/archives/
Educational_Management/Education_Reform/reformhist.html
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printresponses.cgi/Virtual/Qa/archives/
Educational_Management/Education_Reform/lowperform.html
Written by Adam Fletcher for The Freechild Project & HumanLinks Foundation. Best practices
from across the nation illustrate the actual application of this strategy in diverse settings,
and a comprehensive resource listing provides ample footing for educators and students to
advocate for and implement Meaningful Student Involvement in their schools.
http://www.soundout.org/
Available in pdf, this report "describes the Challenge's achievements in
improving urban, rural and arts education."
http://www.annenbergchallenge.org/pubs/Lessons/lessons.html
Acknowledging that existing literature on educational reform efforts
focuses on the role of teachers, parents, and administrators, this report
considers the role of the student in education reform.
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n31/
"In order to clarify what we know about effective public schools, the Education Policy Studies
Laboratory (EPSL) at Arizona State University invited a group of distinguished education scholars to
review the research on a series of education reform topics." Scroll
down the page for links to individual chapters of this report.
http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/EPRU/epru_2002_Research_Writing.htm
"The Catalog of School Reform Models was designed to help educators find an external model that meets
the needs of their school. It provides descriptions of 34 entire-school models plus additional entries
on reading/language arts, mathematics, science, and "other" models."
http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/catalog/index.shtml
A series of 13 studies of various aspects of education reform funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement. Areas studied include assessment, technology, parent involvement, educator professionalism, and more. Findings and case study summaries are available online.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/SER/
Offers research and opinions on both sides of the issue of privatization of schools, though conclusions are pro-privatization.
http://www.schoolchoices.org/
Provides an overview of 24 schoolwide reform approaches. This work was conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) under contract to the American Association of School Administrators, American Federation of Teachers, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, and National Education Association.
http://www.aasa.org/issues_and_insights/district_organization/Reform/index.htm
Contains information on various reform efforts including charter schools, vouchers, school choice, etc.
http://edreform.com/
Provides access to references, abstracts, and some full text materials from a variety of sources dealing with the key aspects of comprehensive school reform.
http://www.goodschools.gwu.edu/csrl/index.html
"The Comprehensive Center Network is comprised of 15 Comprehensive Centers (CC) located throughout the
country. The US Department of Education established the CC Network to provide technical assistance
services focused on the implementation of reform programs."
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/tan/ccregions.htm
This site from Education Week provides and overview of public school privatization efforts and provides
links to past articles and related web resources.
http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=15
This online periodical presents education reform experiences from a teacher's perspectives. Produced by the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory, a program of The Education Alliance at Brown University.
http://www2.alliance.brown.edu/voices/
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed370178.html
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed405642.html
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed321342.html
Supports research, publications, and action projects of national significance in elementary/secondary
education reform. Their website includes several online publications and a collection of education
reform related links.
1627 K Street, NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: (202) 223-5452
Fax: (202) 223-9226
Email: fordham@dunst.com
http://www.edexcellence.net
The Annenberg Institute for School Reform promotes and advocates the reform and redesign of American schooling. It strives to study and promote successful change in a substantial number of schools that -- in collaboration with their communities -- help all children to lean to use their minds well.
Brown University
Box 1985
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401/863-7990
Fax: 401/863-1290
E-mail:
AISR_Info@brown.edu
http://www.annenberginstitute.org/
America's Choice School Network, originally NCEE's National Alliance for Restructuring Education (NARE), offers a comprehensive, research-based design for schools and districts committed to standards-based education. NARE was named as one of the proven design models in the federal Obey-Porter legislation that provides grant funding for the Comprehensive School Reform Demonstration (CSRD) program.
1 Thomas Circle, N.W., Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20005
Tel: 202/783-3668
Fax: 202/783-3672
E-mail:
info@ncee.org
http://www.ncee.org/acsd/index.jsp
NCREST was founded in 1990 as a consulting firm to help restructure schools. The NCREST's mission is to create schools that are centered on learners' needs for active, experiential, cooperative, and culturally connected learning opportunities that support individual talents and learning styles.
Columbia University
Teachers College
Box 110
New York, NY 10027
Tel: 212/678-3432 or 3759
Fax: 212/678-4170
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/~ncrest/
CLSR is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to encourage and support the transformation of the existing system of rules, roles, and relationships that govern the way time, people, space, knowledge, and technology are used in schools.
950 Breckenridge Lane, Suite 200
Louisville, Kentucky 40207
Tel: 502/895-1942
Fax: 502/895-7901
E-mail:
info@clsr.org
http://www.clsr.org
The George Washington University
2121 K Street NW, Suite 250
Washington, DC, 20037-1801
Toll Free Numbers:
Tel: (877) 766-4CSR or 4277
Fax (877) 308-4995
http://www.goodschools.gwu.edu
1001 Connecticut Avenue, N. W., Suite 204
Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone: (202) 822-9000
Fax: (202) 822-5077
http://www.educationleaders.org/
P.O. 600490
North Miami Beach, FL 33160
Phone: (954) 262-5084
Fax: (954) 262-3988
http://www.magnet.edu/