National Issues Forum - Education
- A non-partisan site that presents summary information and opposing viewpoints on education reform issues.
- http://www.nifi.org/discussion_guides/guides.aspx?catID=10

Redesigning Public Education: The Kentucky Experience
- A historical review of the origins and implementation of the Kentucky Education Reform Act of 1990 (KERA).
- http://home.alltel.net/fosterjd/index.html

A Measured Response: Americans Speak On Education Reform
- Testing service-sponsored survey showing a majority of Americans want both increased federal funding and greater accountability in public education.
- http://www.ets.org/aboutets/americaspeaks/survey2001.html

MDRC Education Research
- Education research focused on programs with the potential to improve education outcomes for large numbers of low-income students.
- http://www.mdrc.org/area_index_1.html

Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education
- Non partisan research and policy analysis related to raising achievement in Canada's public schools.
- http://www.saee.ca

Farming the Permafrost: How Public Education Defeats Reform
- An essay by Jonathan Marin, describing a unique political landscape created by the constituencies on both sides of education reform debates.
- http://users.rcn.com/jonmarin//ed_reform.htm

The Delphi Technique.
- What is that new process being used at public forums to reach consensus? This method is used by many educators to squeeze the public out of the reform process.
- http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/1998/nov98/focus.html

Education Reform - The "Tough Standards" Movement
- A critical examination of formal education is presented from many perspectives: political, medical, psychological, and sociological. It makes a case that the student should be in charge of his own education.
- http://www.education-reform.net/

Prisoners Of Time
- Report of the U.S. National Education Commission on Time and Learning. Schools tend to structure the learning process according to time allotted, not the other way around. The Commission recommends various solutions to this problem.
- http://www.ed.gov/pubs/PrisonersOfTime/index.html

Franchise by Examination, Education and Intelligence
- The nature of intelligence is examined in terms of education and heredity . The author proposes radical changes to law and education to further human social advance.
- http://www.abelard.org/iqedfran/iqedfran.htm

The Decay Of Western Education
- Articles describing the decay of education in western civilization in modern times.
- http://www.ourcivilisation.com/dumb/index.htm

Research for Action
- A Philadelphia-based non-profit organization working in educational research and reform to insure opportunities and outcomes for all students.
- http://www.researchforaction.org/

Student Achievement and School Design
- Two real schools whose outstanding standardized test scores are natural outgrowths of intentional curriculum and program design.
- http://www.topschools.com/TestScores.htm

A Nation Still At Risk
- A follow-up to "A Nation At Risk", from the Center for Education Reform.
- http://edreform.com/pubs/manifest.htm

A Nation At Risk
- The prominent 1983 report on American education, from the National Commission on Excellence in Education.
- http://www.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/index.html