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Education Reform
Alternatives
Alternative
Education Resource Organization
AERO helps people modify education to a more empowering and holistic
form.
Books
on School and State
Karl Bunday's reading list for some heavy reading about the role
of the state in education.
Education Revolution
Radio Talk Show with AERO
director Jerry Mintz, showcases the dramatic changes that are
reshaping the face of education in the USA and around the world
while you can listen in every Saturday evening at 6 p.m. Eastern
Time.
National Coalition of Alternative
Community Schools
Our mission is to unite and organize a grassroots movement of
learners and learning communities dedicated to participant control
and the elimination of ecological and human oppression.
Open
Portal Schools
A friend of mine, Liza Loop, back in 1986, envisioned what web-based
education in the future might look like. I read this thesis of
hers back then, and I think you will see how she influenced me
and this website tremendously. Many a homeschooling "center"
seems to be much as she describes. Is this the near future of
education?
Separation of School
& State Alliance
"I don't want my children fed or clothed by the state, but
I would prefer that to their being educated by the state."
Max Victor Belz.
Thirty Great
Books on Education
A Ten-Year Retrospective. Reviews of books that have inspired
the alternative and homeschooling movements. From Great
Ideas in Education.
Federal
Programs
No Child
Left Behind
President George W. Bush: "The federal role in education
is not to serve the system. It is to serve the children."
U.S. Department of Education
Check here for education headlines, initiatives, research, demographics
and statistics about education in the USA.
A
View From Home
This influx of new families, coupled with outside factors like
a negative economy and the controls set by the 2001 "No
Child Left Behind Act," are changing the definition of homeschooling.
By Cyndy Rodgers.
Law
Center
for Law and Education
Legal assistance generally in an 'of counsel' capacity to attorneys
representing students in matters pertaining to obtaining quality
education and improved educational outcomes.
State
Compulsory School Attendance Laws
Compulsory education is only 150 years old, and not even that
old in every state. Before that, everyone homeschooled! Last
updated 2001. May be outdated information for some states.
State Regulation
of Private Schools
Pertinent to homeschooling as many families have no other regulation
other than the private school statutes (for example, California
and Texas).
NEA Watch
NEA Recommends
for the 109th Congress
Help close achievement gaps by:
- Blocking passage of measures that are ineffective and would
divert public resources to private, religious, or homeschool
K-12 uses, including any nationwide voucher or voucher demonstration
program, and any federal tax credits or deductions for private,
religious, or homeschool K-12 tuition expenses. Instead, pursue
opportunities for every student to have:
- A public school that is safe and modern, with small class
sizes;
- A qualified, certified teacher in every classroom;
- Classroom access to new technologies and benefit from effective
use of technology in teaching the curriculum;
- Access to proven, research-based programs in reading and
math; and
Basic learning skills because of early childhood programs, parental
involvement, and services that support health, nutrition, and
well-being.
- Defunding vouchers in the District of Columbia and fighting
any attempt to make the program permanent.
Letter
from NEA to NHEN
The following letter from Bob Chase, President of the National
Education Association, was sent to NHEN in response to an NHEN query
about the reasoning behind the NEA's position that "home
schooling programs cannot provide the student with a comprehensive
education experience." [At the time of this posting, NEA
has removed its homeschooling resolution from its website.]
Publications
Education Week On
the Web
Updates weekly. Public school system news source. National and
state level issues. Free, but you have to register. Occassional
homeschooling articles.
Research
Education
Intelligence Agency
EIA provides quick, accurate information to requesters concerning
the public education establishment.
Public
School Reform: Potential Lessons from the Truly Departed
We are their guinea pigs! J. Dan Marshall, Pennsylvania State
University, and James P. Valle Donegal School District (PA)
School
Assessment
National
Assessment of Educational Progress
NAEP, often called "The Nation's Report Card," will
let you know how well the public schools in your area are teaching
reading and other basic skills. Adobe Acrobat plug-in required.
School
Choice
Center for Education
Reform
A good site for those support school choice, finding information
about charter school laws for all states, vouchers, etc.
Educational
Choice
The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation examines the school
choice alternative.
Nine
Lies About School Choice: Answering the Critics
Choice proponents can now present empirical and anecdotal evidence
showing that school choice is equitable, is wanted and it works.
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- Tomorrow's Children: A Blueprint for Partnership
Education for the 21st Century
by Riane Eisler, Nel Noddings
- Riane Eisler's new book is a stunning contribution to multicultural
pedagogy. Using her macrohistorical theory of dominator/partnership
swings, she offers a new framework, structure and content for
education. This is one of the most important books to come around
in a long time.
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- Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy
in the Homeschooling Movement
- by Mitchell L. Stevens
- Moving from why parents opt for home-schooling to the long-term
effects on their children, he draws on interviews with a mix
of parents from fundamentalist Christians to pagans and educational
radicals and persuasively contextualizes the movement within
the "organizational strategies of the progressive left and
the religious right" in their attempt to preserve their
core set of values: "the sanctity of childhood and the primacy
of family in the face of an increasingly competitive and bureaucratized
society." 15 pages of exerpts available.
The
Schools Our Children Deserve
Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"
by Kohn, Alfie
Teacher-turned-writer Alfie Kohn takes on traditional-education
giants like E.D. Hirsch, along with practically every state government
"raising the bar" and toughening standards, in this
attack on the back-to-basics movement. 1999 Hardcover
Left
Back : A Century of Failed School Reforms
by Ravitch, Diane Ravitch
"Whenever the academic curriculum was diluted or minimized,
large numbers of children were pushed through the school system
without benefit of a genuine education," she writes. 2001
Paperback
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