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- American Council of Trustees and Alumni - Resource for materials and information on trustees empowerment for academic freedom and excellence. Also posts announcements, news, and blogs.
- Raise Your Voice - Campaigns to stop the US Congress from withholding education funds. With news, action alerts, involvement calls.
- The Collegiate Way - Presents an advocacy to improve campus life by creating small, diverse, faculty-led residential colleges within large universities.
- Critical Mass - Comments on the state of the American academe by Erin O'Connor.
- Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - Advocates for the defense of students' rights in their choice for higher education. Accommodates case submissions, presents issue discussions, and posts news and updates.
- The Futures Project - Promotes the creation of a higher education policy that serves the public interest. With blogs, news, and publications.
- The Irascible Professor - Dr. Mark H. Shapiro's commentary on the state of education in America.
- The National Academy for Academic Leadership - Serves as a guide for the learning of leadership strategies that aid learning transformation. Also provides academy resources and newsletters.
- Pope Center for Higher Education - Publishes white papers and other reports on improving higher education.
- The Shadow University - Exposé about the alleged unlikely system of education being employed by some of the noted colleges in the United States.
- Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship - Campaigns for the freedom in teaching, research, and scholarship. With issue or case discussions.
- University Secrets - Chapter by chapter presentation suggesting reasons why best colleges may be the worst education choices.
- Vermont Campus Contact - Introduces a statewide coalition of college university presidents that aims to promote the integration of public service into academic institutions.
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- Do Children Need Recess - Discusses the issues about elementary school recess. With position statements, recess overviews, and other related literature.
- Education Reform - Information on education reform standards, freedom, differences, and other related subjects.
- MDRC K-12 Education - Aims to provide inputs to the education policy debate. Contains policy area resources and various presentations.
- Research for Action - Research resource for the Philadelphia school reform. With a list of pertinent publications, information on research methods, and policy briefs.
- Society for the Excellence of Excellence in Education - Promotes the building of school success through research. Provides non-partisan education research and information for policy-makers, education partners, and the public to peruse.
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- Annenberg Institute for School Reform - Brown University institute provides case studies, education resources, and publications on urban school reform.
- Center for Urban Education - Offers support to school-based research reform efforts that focus on the problems and issues facing urban schools.
- Mass Insight - Fosters the Great Schools Campaign - an effort to bring together businesses, the community, and school leaders to promote school reform.
- Urban Education Partnership - Facilitates increased academic achievement by presenting opportunities for the partnering of educators, parents, and communities.
- Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research - Presents ideas for educational excellence, effective public management, and economic opportunity.
- Center for Collaborative Education - Site dedicated to support equitable and democratic schools. Contains news, events information, and urban school reform initiatives.
- Council of Great City Schools - Expresses America's voice for urban education. Also presents urban education reports and data, legislative services, and press releases.
- Public Education Foundation - Learn about the ways this organization has been executing its strategies to foster improved public education.
- Education Law Center - Features stories that highlight the clamor, initiatives, and undertakings to bring about improved public education policy in the United States.
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- NAYRE - Posts reports that aver the benefits of extended time schools.
- Stop Year-Round School in Auburn - Presentation critical to the year-round education practice and its many variations.
- Summer Matters - Cites the negative consequences of year-round schooling, where vacations are cancelled.
- The Perpetual School - Offers thousands of free ideas for parents and educators of young children. Includes workshops, presentations, and other learning activities.
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Equity
- Gender Equity in Education - Martha C. Phelps-Borrowman's presentation citing the failure of American schools to achieve gender equity in education.
- Maasai Girls Education Fund - Campaigns for the literacy, health, and economic well-being of the Maasai girls in Kenya.
- Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium (MAEC) - Learn about MAEC's services, advocacy, and activities. Go over the featured statistics, articles, and reports as well.
- Equity in Education - Highlights a policy framework for education equity.
- School Funding Equity - Overview of the funding disparities among American schools. With articles, action alerts, and links to related resources.
- Women and Minorities in Math and Engineering - Promotes the creation of Math and Engineering learning opportunities for women of all races.
- Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network (WEPAN) - Presents WEPAN's services, programs, initiatives, awards and corporate partners.
- Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence - Presents the University of California's initiative to address the major educational equity and excellence challenges confronting the academic institutions.
- The Equity Center - Offers helps for schools and communities to fill the academic needs of students.
- Office of the Vice Provost for Educational Equity - Features a directory of educational equity information pages. With a host of education diversity-related resources.
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- The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation - Alfie Kohn's article on the complaints about grade inflation statistics comparison.
- Grade Inflation - Presentation of the grade inflation issues at American colleges and universities. With statistical tables or graphs.
- End Grade Inflation - Collection of resources, sample transcripts, teaching techniques suggestions, and reform ideas pertinent to grade inflation.
- Fiscal Policy Effects on Grade Inflation - Richard J. Barndt's reedited article discussing the relationship of government fiscal policy and grade inflation.
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- Applied Scholastics International - Offers teacher training programs and continuing education courses that teach the skills and strategies necessary for educators to properly address students' academic achievement struggles.
- Book 'Em - Provides volunteer readers and books for local preschools, Head Start centers, and elementary schools.
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- Peter Sacks - Features books and essays about standardized, intelligence, and achievement testing.
- Richard P. Phelps - Lists links and citations critical to the anti-testing movement. Includes articles on anti-testing fallacies, methodological evaluation, and more.
- Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation - Peer-reviewed online journal providing articles with positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practice.
- Achieve - Introduces an initiative that aims to prepare the youth for postsecondary education.
- Test Usage Information Links - Directory of information and articles that contend the common thinking or perception over the academic achievement representation that state tests project.
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Hawaii
- Maui Lani Weddings - Details of the packages being offered along with photos and overview of various wedding types.
- Affordable Weddings of Hawaii - Premier wedding planner offers wedding packages with a line-up of activities a couple can do as part of the wedding event.
- Bali Hai Weddings - Offers local wedding coordination services. Has photos of its previous events.
- Hawaii Gay Weddings - Features printable wedding plans with other resources helpful for the wedding preparation.
- Royal Hawaiian Weddings - Browse through its wedding plans with sample wedding and a presentation of wedding locations.
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Ontario
- The Wedding Wizard - Directory of local businesses that caters various wedding needs.
- Wedding Essentials - Local directory provides access to wedding information and services.
- TorontoBrides.com - Local wedding updates along with helpful resources are provided.
- Bridal.ca - Services such as wedding planning are explained along with other resources.
- BridalSpace.com - Online directory of local wedding services with articles and galleries among others.
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New_Zealand
- Weddings New Zealand, Wedding Services - Contains wedding information useful for planning with service directory among others.
- Wanaka Weddings - Provides a directory of wedding professionals who can plan and organize local weddings with listings of other wedding needs.
- Wedding Heaven - Has information useful for wedding preparation with a directory of services.
- New Zealand Weddings - Magazine site provides a directory of wedding services by category with wedding articles.
- NZWeddingDirectory.co.nz - Has listings of wedding services from bridal wears to wedding
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- Wedding Gown Preservation Co. - Provides information about the gown preservation service with the process being explained.
- Prestige Preservation Program - Offers gown preservation system. Learn about its services and processes.
- J. Scheer and Co. - Provides wedding gown preservation services with information on its process.
- WedClean - Wedding gown preservation specialist provides order information along with the way the work is done.
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