Websites

Adolescent Literacy in the Content Areas
Highlights promising practices for adolescent literacy in the content areas, with sections covering strategies for improving students’ literacy and learning, stories of practices in action, and resources related to culturally responsive instruction. A project of the Education Alliance at Brown University.

American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
Offers a number of resources for educators, including "Issues and Insights," organized by topic area, and a section dedicated to resources and best practices for implementing the No Child Left Behind Act.

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) - Redesigning Schools to Raise Achievement
Contains a resource guide that presents ideas, information, and materials, including: profiles of selected districts, indicators of low performance; materials that can be used to help devise a school audit; procedures by which the school's instructional staff can make an informed choice among research-proven improvement programs and strategies; and profiles of several research-proven schoolwide improvement.

Annenberg Institute for School Reform
Develops, shares and acts on knowledge that improves conditions and outcomes of urban schools in the United States. A project of Brown University.

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Addresses all aspects of effective teaching and learning—such as professional development, educational leadership, and capacity building--and offers broad, multiple perspectives in reporting key policies and practices. Educational Leadership, ASCD’s monthly magazine, provides practical strategies for educators.

Best Evidence Encyclopedia (BEE)
Offers educators and researchers fair and useful information about the strength of the evidence supporting a variety of programs available for students in grades K-12. Developed by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education.

Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
Provides information about research-based strategies on school improvement and also relevant guides, tools, and links. Funded by the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education of the US Department of Education.

Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence (CREDE)
Focuses on improving the education of students whose ability to reach their potential is challenged by language or cultural barriers, race, geographic location, or poverty. A project of the University of California at Berkeley.

Center on Reinventing Public Education
Provides free online access to all of the organization’s publications, which are aimed at improving policy and decision-making in K-12 education.

Comprehensive Centers Program
This program supports 21 comprehensive centers to help increase state capacity to help low-performing schools and districts close achievement gaps and meet the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

Consortium of School Networking (CoSN)
Provides products and services to support leadership development, advocacy, coalition building, and awareness of emerging technologies.

Doing What Works
Offers a user-friendly interface to quickly locate practical teaching practices that have been found effective by the US Department of Education’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, and similar organizations.

Education Trust
Provides the following: advocacy for schools, colleges and communities; analysis and expert testimony on policy issues; research and wide public dissemination of data; and assistance to school districts, colleges, and community-based organizations to help their efforts at raising student achievement, especially among minority and poor students.

English Learner Video Library Website
Provides multimedia materials (video lectures and commentary, video cases, homework activities, and various supporting documents) for courses and professional development seminars related to educating English language learners (ELLs). When you click on the above link, you will need to first create an account. Housed at Stanford University.

Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE)
Provides resources for family engagement in children's education include research, workshop materials and tools, teaching case narratives of problematic situations in home-school relations, bibliographies, a guide to other online resources on family involvement, and an electronic newsletter. A project of the Harvard University Family Research Project.

George Lucas Educational Foundation Newsletters
Documents and disseminates stories about exemplary practices in K-12 public education through five weekly e-newsletters -- the original Edutopia News and four topic-specific publications: Assessment, Project-Based Learning, Social & Emotional Learning, and Technology Integration.

IBM Reinventing Education Change Toolkit
This site was created to provide educators with tools to support leadership development and change management. It was created by IBM in partnership with Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor and expert on leadership and change management. The content of the site, which focuses on leadership and change management, will be most useful for people working on some sort of change or improvement effort. This site requires free registration.

Improving School Board Decision-Making: The Data Connection
Offers PowerPoint presentations, quizzes, hands-on training tools and other helpful materials for school board members and trainers who want to know more about how to use data in decision making.

Learning Innovations at WestEd
Provides the following information on the products, services and projects of WestEd’s Learning Innovations division, which addresses the issues of Assessment, Community Development, Evaluation, Leadership Development, Policy Studies & Analysis, School Reform, Special Needs & Full Inclusion, Teacher Professional Development, and Technology.

Lexile Framework for Reading
Explains the Lexile Framework for Reading reading measurement tool to educators, families, and researchers and offers free products to encourage progress in student reading.

Looking at Student Work
Proffers thoughtful principles, sample protocols, a variety of resources, and helpful research links on how to look collaboratively at student work rather than at assessment data.

National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators
Provides to its members receive timely information about the implementation of No Child Left Behind and enables them share resources and ideas.

National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform
Funded by the US Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, this website is the central gateway to information on comprehensive school reform.

National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA)
Features current information regarding federal policies and major events, as well as databases, research, and additional links. NCELA is funded by the US Department of Education through the office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA).

National Middle School Association
Provides pertinent information about young adolescents by listing relevant research publications and useful links to state, regional, provincial and international affiliate organizations.

National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Programs
Presents the National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Programs which were developed by the National PTA in cooperation with education and parent involvement professionals through the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education (NCPIE).

New Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) Online System
Enables the public to search the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.2 million education-related citations going back to 1966, as well as more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents issued since 1993 that are available for free.

No Child Left Behind - ED.gov
Provides information about the No Child Left Behind legislation including an overview, an A-Z index, and specific tabs for students, parents, teachers, and administrators. Developed by the US Department of Education.

Principals.org
Provides middle and high school leaders with the following: relevant news and research; federal policy and legal resources; research-based, peer-tested resources; practical tools; and example "breakthrough schools" to serve as inspiration. Developed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

Raising the Roof
Allows the user to search California data on student achievement, teacher qualifications, and demographics, and to identify high-poverty and high-minority schools that are high-performing.

Regional Educational Laboratory Program
Serves the educational needs of a designated region by providing access to high quality scientifically valid education research through applied research and development projects, studies, and other related technical assistance activities. Funded by the US Department of Education.

School Redesign Network
Proffers reasons, strategies, and tools for redesigning schools, including creating small schools. Developed by Stanford University.

SchoolMatters
Provides a unique Learning Center that demonstrates how to access nationwide, state, district, and school level data and utilize comparative tools to interpret it. Developed by Standard & Poor.

Small Learning Communities
Brings together a knowledge base, tools, and resources for implementing and deepening small learning community practice. Developed and maintained by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, as part of a US Department of Education-sponsored partner project managed by the Office of Vocational and Adult Education.

Teacher Leaders Network
Enables members of this professional community to share a variety of resources on teacher leadership issues and effective teaching and learning practices, including reports and articles, member diaries, discussion groups, classroom project resources, and documented conversations with experts.

Teacher Quality (TQ) Source
Features publications, policy information, and initiatives on preparing, certifying, recruiting, and retaining quality teachers, as well as a searchable database of national and state data on teachers. It is a collaborative project between the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) and the Education Commission of the States (ECS).

The Facts about Reading First
Provides information about Reading First, including how it promotes the use of scientifically based research to provide high-quality reading instruction in grades K-3. Developed by the US Department of Education.

Title I Report
Information source on Title I and compensatory education.

Transform My School
Proffers resources to aid in altering school practices order to improve student achievement. Developed by the California Charter Schools Association.

U.S. Department of Education (ED)
Offers a range and an ever-growing collection of information about the US Department of Education, including initiatives and priorities, grant opportunities, offices, publications, and research and statistics.

US Charter Schools Website
Provides information and knowledge for charter school developers, operators, parents, researchers and policy makers. Developed by the US Department of Education and WestEd.

What Works Clearinghouse
Provides educators, policymakers, and the public with a central and independent source of scientific evidence of what works in education. A project of the Institute of Education Sciences, US Department of Education.