Resources and Links for Parents and Educators
The National Center for Schools and Communities is actively engaged in projects to bring meaningful reform to public education. Here are some links to other places where parents and community groups can find more helpful information for their school reform efforts. Should We Ban Standardized Test Scores as Research Measures?If high stakes testing has pernicious effects on children, the quality of their educational experience, and their future opportunities, should "human subject" research legitimize test results as indicators? Read James H. Nehring's challenge to researchers and evaluators.http://www.ncscatfordham.org/pages/doinggggg.cfm Alliance for Quality Education
Annenberg Institute for Social Reform at Brown University
Advocates for Children
Applied Research Center
The Campaign for Fiscal Equity Class Size Matters
Organization focused on reducing class sizes in New York City Coalition for Essential Schools
Education Week
Inside Schools
Service for parents of New York City public school students NYU Institute for Education and Social Policy
Learning In Deed
Public Education Network (PEN)
Harvard Family Research Project
Partnership for After School Education
The New York Immigration Coalition
The Campaign for Fiscal Equity
Resources for Organizers
Center for Community Change's NCLB briefs
This page contains a host of issue briefs concerning the No Child Left Behind of 2001. ERASE Report
ERASE Facing the Consequences Report: An Examination of Racial Discrimination in U.S. Public Schools © Applied Research Center, March 2000
Download file: ERASE.pdf ( 818.20Kb)
Source: National Center for Schools and Communities at Fordham
Center for Community Change
The organization offers a primer on organizing Neighborhood Funders Group - Community Organizing Toolbox
Action Guide for Education Organizing by the Center for Community Change
http://www.communitychange.org/issues/education/actionguide/ Reports from ACORN
Connecting Families to Schools
Connecting Families to Schools: Why Parents and Community Engagement Improves School and Student Performance (Erik T. Bennett, MSW, 2004) New York City Public School Performance You can find school performance data, such as reading scores, math scores, as well as other information about safety, school curriculum and more, for all of New York City's elementary, middle and junior high schools at the New York City Board of Education website:
http://www.nycenet.edu/daa/research |
