Status of the American Public School Teacher 2005-2006
Highlights from the most recent NEA’s survey on American teachers, including teacher demographics and attitudes towards the profession. Published in 2010
Preservice educators might as well familiarize themselves with this site early on in their preservice program since the U.S. Department of Education sets so many policies that have an impact in every classroom in the nation.
This online library offers the full text of 12 recent studies that examined various aspects of education reform, which were funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI).
The National Women’s History Project established National Women’s History Month, maintains the clearinghouse for U.S. women’s history information, and provides curricular materials on women’s history.
The American Memory is an online collection of narratives, photographs, and oral histories, complemented with lesson plans to explore historical accounts of life and education in the United States.
With 250 projects around the globe, EDC is one of the world’s leading nonprofit education organizations. It conducts research and develops programs in such areas as early child development, K–12 education, health promotion, workforce preparation, learning technologies, and institutional reform.
WRI conducts research, development, and training in education and human services focusing on the needs of children and families as well as gender equity. The site even offers an infant behavioral assessment and intervention program.
Studies ethical issues in education, business, and public policy. The Web site including a monthly feature titled “How would you solve these ethical dilemmas?”
This site has more than 2,000 prejudice-related links, searchable databases of social justice organizations and prejudice researchers, teaching resources, and interactive exercises.
This project of the Southern Poverty Law Center provides educators with free educational materials that promote respect for differences and appreciation of diversity in the classroom and beyond.
Advocacy organization started in 1909 to ensure the political, social and economic equality of all citizens, most notably through legal aid and advice.
Indian Affairs is the principal bureau, within the federal government, responsible for the administration of federal programs for federally recognized Indian tribes, and for promoting Indian self-determination.
A companion Web site for the PBS series that explores the history and stories of Asian Americans. The site includes discussion questions for teachers and an online discussion.
This article reveals the multicultural makeup of today’s schools and the need to emphasize education equity for all students. Ideas for creating multicultural classrooms are detailed.
Through widely respected research, the AAUW Educational Foundation and the Association have drawn national attention to the problems that girls face in school. Major portions of their work are available through this site.
The Society provides an open forum, through publications, for the presentation and discussion of scholarly work on issues related to human knowledge and its development.
Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence
CREDE identifies and develops effective educational practices for linguistic and culturally diverse students, such as those placed at risk by factors of race, poverty, and geographic location.
Founded in 1986 by activist teachers, Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit, independent publisher of educational materials that advocates with a strong emphasis on issues of equity and social justice.
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) conducts research on important topics related to K–12 educational testing.
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) is an advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses, and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally sound.
The American Civil Liberties Union has become increasingly concerned with school-based discipline policies. For the latest, go to the ACLU web site and search for school discipline.
The AFT represents more than 1 million teachers, staff, and faculty and is the nation’s second largest teachers association. The site includes sections for membership and minisites for various divisions.
National, nonprofit, private association that represents state boards of education from all over the nation with their site that includes state profiles and current topics updates.
The National Center for Education Statistics releases its yearly report, The Nation’s Report Card, based on national assessments. These results from the 2011 report examine the current achievement gap between Black and White students, and Hispanic and White students, with information on how the gap has changed over time.
Details how children experienced city life during the last century. The site features hundreds of documents and images drawn from newspapers, government, records, and oral histories from children living in urban America.
The Web site of the Children’s Defense Fund includes data about the status of children in the United States. It also includes information on CDF’s programs and activist work.
Advocacy organization started in 1909 to ensure the political, social and economic equality of all citizens, most notably through legal aid and advice.
National, nonprofit, private association that represents state boards of education from all over the nation with their site that includes state profiles and current topics updates.
Any number of publications, conservative and liberal, those focused on the general public including the New York Times and the Washington Post, and those specifically for educators like Rethinking Schools have ongoing reports on the debates about the common core. Education Next is one such site with a very specific perspective but often with loads of current information.
Founded in 1986 by activist teachers, Rethinking Schools is a nonprofit, independent publisher of educational materials who advocate with a strong emphasis on issues of equity and social justice.
Started by Geoffrey Canada, this community-based organization has provided education, social-services and community building programs to Harlem residents since 1970
Originally founded as Educators for Social Responsibility and now called Engaging Schools, the organization advocates for more democratic public education programs. This page supports its membership with skills needed to shape a safe, sustainable, democratic, and just world for children.
Facing History and Ourselves creates a wide range of curricular materials for public school teachers to help combat prejudice and apathy in the face of violence and undemocratic actions. This Web site offers information for teachers who are working to face their own biases to promote a more equitable education for their students.
The Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP)
In 2013 the two competing organizations for the accreditation of teacher education programs known as NCATE and TEAC merged to create a new organization CAEP. The CAEP standards give detailed information on what this body thinks is essential to high-quality preparation for a career in teaching
A project began in 1952 to focus public attention on excellence in teaching. Every year one teacher is chosen from among the State Teachers of the Year to be awarded the National Teacher of the Year prize.
