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| Transforming High School Teaching and Learning: A District-wide Design | From the Aspen Institute, this publication provides new insights on how to substantially improve high school teaching and learning across an urban school district. Drawing on the expertise of teachers, principals, superintendents, policy makers and researchers, the new Aspen Institute Program on Education and Society report offers both an analytic framework and concrete suggestions for a new approach to high school improvement. Great read! | |||
| GreatSchools.net | GreatSchools.net is another source of school information on elementary, middle and high schools. This nonprofit organization, provides information about public, private and charter schools in all 50 states and detailed school profiles for California, Arizona, Texas, Florida and Washington. Principals and parents can write about their schools, adding to the demographic and outcome data provided. The site includes many simple and helpful graphs and charts. You must subscribe to gain the most benefit. |
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| A Lexicon of Learning | Education, like all professions, has a specialized vocabulary that parents and others may have a difficult time understanding. ASCD's online glossary provides clear definitions of educational terms in everyday language. | |||
| Just for the Kids |
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| SchoolMatters | SchoolMatters provides rich information and
powerful search and comparison tools to help uncover the stories behind the
numbers, and further the discussion about how to improve student
performance. This new public-private partnership posts test scores, school
spending, student demographics, and other relevant data. The site features
research tools that allow users to compare achievement across districts,
track districts’ and individual schools’ progress in reaching
student-achievement goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, and
find schools and districts that may be outperforming others. Some educators
are questioning whether the Web site provides a fair way to compare schools.
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| Public School Review | Public School Review lets you find free,
detailed profiles of public schools and their surrounding communities. |
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KIDS COUNT State-Level Data Online |
KIDS COUNT
State-Level Data Online, launched in July 2005 by the Annie
E. Casey Foundation, contains more than 75 measures of child
well-being, including the 10 measures used in our annual
KIDS COUNT Data Book. It includes the most timely data
available on Education, Employment and Income, Poverty,
Health, Basic Demographics, and Youth Risk Factors for the
U.S., all 50 states, and D.C. Depending on availability,
three to five years of trend data is currently available for
most indicators.
This easy-to-use, powerful online database allows you to generate custom reports for a geographic area (Profiles) or to compare geographic areas on a topic (Ranking, Maps, and Line Graphs).
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| edweek.org | Brief but thorough, research-based background
essays on important education issues in America today. Each page includes
links to research citations, to definitions of related education terms, and
to relevant stories from the Education Week and Teacher Magazine archives.
You'll also find links to pertinent reports, Web sites, and organizations.
Free registration required.
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U.S. Department
of Education |
In particular, high schools should review the
information for high schools. The Smaller Learning Communities Program is a
$125 million competitive federal grant program to plan, implement or
expand smaller learning communities in large high schools. The goal is no
more than 600 students in a learning community. Beyond the grant,
there are links to research data on the viability of smaller learning communities
in large high schools.
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| District Administration |
Keeping up with the Web gets harder every year. District Administration is a magazine of education
leadership for district-level decision makers in K-12 education. It also
features a "web site of the week." |
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