Education Resources and Organizations
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University of Notre Dame
0322 Hesburgh Center
Notre Dame, IN 46556
(219) 631-7052
American Association of Christian
Schools
P.O. Box 2189
Independence, MO 64055
(816) 795.7709
American Legislative Exchange
Council
910 17th St., NW
5th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 466-3800
American Textbook Council
475 Riverside Drive, #518
NewYork, NY 10115-0518
(212) 870-2760
Arkansas Policy Foundation
111 Center Street, Suite 1610
Little Rock, AR 72201
Telephone: (501) 376-9967
Fax: (501) 376-6556
Associated Professional Educators of
Louisiana
P.O. Box 14265
Baton Rouge, LA 70898
(504) 769-4005 or (800) 364-2735
Association for Effective Schools,
Inc.
8250 Sharpton Road
R.D. Box 143
Stuyvesant, NY 12173
(518) 758-9828
The Buckeye Institute
131 North Ludlow St., Suite 317
Dayton, OH 45402
Telephone: (937) 224-8352
Fax: (937) 224-8457
Non-profit research and education institute that provides market-oriented solutions for state and local problems facing Ohio citizens.
Cato Institute
Education and Child Policy
1000 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 842-0200
Website: http://www.cato.org/research/edu-st.html
Cato scholars in education and child policy develop measures to clear the path for entrepreneurial activity and parental power in education, working toward a day when state-run schools give way to a dynamic independent system of schools competing to meet the needs of every single American child.
The Center for Education Policy
Georgia Public Policy Foundation
6100 Lake Forrest Drive, Suite 110
Atlanta, GA 30328
Phone: 404-256-4050
Toll Free: 800-423-8867
Email: sstrickland@gppf.org
Website: http://www.gppf.org/education/index.htm
Provides factual and objective information; provides a forum for the discussion of ideas; and serves as an independent voice for improving educational achievement for all children in Georgia.
Education Studies
Pacific Research Institute
755 Sansome Street, Suite 450
San Francisco CA 94111
Contact: Pamela Riley
Telephone: (415) 989-0833
Fax: (415) 989-2411
E-mail: rileypam@aol.com
Website: http://www.pacificresearch.org/centers/csr/index.html
The Center for Innovation in Education is a non-profit public policy research organization and school reform center. The CIE's reform program prescribes to the Four Cs: choice, charter schools, content (high academic standards), and competition.
Coalition for Independent Education
Associations
1212 South Boulevard, Suite 101-A
Charlotte, NC 28230
(704) 335-0089
Colorado Children's Campaign
225 16th Avenue B-300
Denver, CO 80203
Telephone: (303) 839-1580
Fax: (303) 839-1354
The Colorado Children's Campaign works to mobilize individuals and organizations to act on behalf of children, with particular attention to the health, education, and safety of those most at risk.
Core
Knowledge Foundation
801 East High Street
Charlottesville, VA 22902
Phone: 434-977-7550
Fax: 434-977-0021
Website: http://www.coreknowledge.org
Council for American Private
Education
1726 M Street, NW, Suite 703
Washington, DC 20036-4502
(202) 659-0016
Website: http://www.capenet.org
Council for Basic Education
1319 F Street, NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20004
(202) 347-4171
Website: http://www.c-b-e.org/
Education
Intelligence Agency
PO Box 2047
Carmichael CA 95609
Phone: 916-422-4373
Fax: 916-392-1482
E-mail: EducIntel@aol.com
Website: http://hometown.aol.com/educintel/eia/index.html
Education Policy and Empowerment Center (EPEC)
4664 Jamestown Avenue, Suite 300
P.O. Box 14851
Baton Rouge, LA 70898
Telephone: (504) 926-8414
Fax: (504) 926-6063
Seeks to empower citizens to be good education consumers and catalysts for change through its publications, workshops, and referrals. The EPEC Charter School Project provides information about charter schools and Louisiana's charter school law to the public, policy makers, and potential charter founders.
Education
Policy Institute
4401-A Connecticut Ave., NW, Box 294
Washington, DC 20008
Phone: 202/244-7535
Fax: 202/244-7584
Website: http://www.educationpolicy.org
The Hudson Institute
PO Box 26-919
Indianapolis, IN 46226
Telephone: (317) 545-1000
Fax: (317) 545-9639
Independence Institute
Parent Information Center
14142 Denver West Parkway, #185
Golden, Colorado 80401
Telephone: (303) 279-6536
Fax: (303) 279-4176
Website: http://i2i.org
The Independence Institute's Parent Information Center provides parents with useful information regarding every school in Colorado (K-12) so that they may become better consumers of education services. The Institute produces a report card and a grade for every elementary and secondary school in the state.
Institute
for Educational Leadership
1001 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 310
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 822-8405
Website: http://www.iel.org
Institute for the Transformation of Learning
Marquette University
P.O. Box 1881
Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881
Phone: (414) 288-5774
Fax: (414) 288-6199
Jefferson Center for Character Education 2700 E. Foothill Boulevard., Suite 202 Pasadena, CA 91107 Phone: 818-792-8130
The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy
P.O. Box 897
Concord, NH 03302
Telephone: (603) 224-4450
The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy's New Hampshire Charter School Resource Center provides information, networking, and assistance to charter advocates and developers in New Hampshire.
Joyce Foundation
135 South LaSalle Street, Suite 4010
Chicago, IL 60603
Telephone: (312) 782-2464
Fax: (312) 782-4160
Michigan School Board Leaders Association
P.O. Box 608
Davison, MI 48423
Phone: 810-658-7667
Fax: 810-658-7557
Website. www.msbla.org
Email: info@msbla.org
Contact: Lori Yaklin, Executive Director
Michigan School Board Leaders Association was created in 1999 to provide education, training and support for reform-minded school board trustees in the state of Michigan. Membership is open to charter, private and public board members. It is for trustees who realize that school boards are not elected to serve schools; they are elected to ensure that schools serve children and parents.
Michigan Education Report: a quarterly newspaper on education issues in Michigan, published by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute.
Morrison Institute for Public Policy
School of Public Affairs
Arizona State University
P. O. Box 874405
Tempe, Arizona 85287-4405
Telephone: (602) 965-4525
Fax: (602) 965-9219
Morrison Institute for Public Policy bridges the gap between academic scholarship and public policy development through its services to public and private sector clients and its independent research agenda. Charter schools have been a primary focus of the Institute's independent education research agenda for the last five years.
National Assessment
Governing Board
(administers National Assessment of Educational Progress)
800 North Capitol Street, NW, Suite 825
Washington, DC 20002-4233
(202) 357-6938
Website: http://www.nagb.org/
National Association of Independent
Schools
1620 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-5605
(202) 973-9700
National Association of Professional
Educators
13354 Copperstone
Sun City West, AZ 85375
(602) 584-4920
National Catholic Educational
Association
1077 30th Street, NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 337-6232
National Center for Accelerated
Schools Project
Stanford University
CERAS 109
Stanford, CA 94305-3084
(415) 725-1676
The
National Center for Education Information
4401 Connecticut Ave., NW, #212
Washington, D.C. 20008
Phone: (202) 362-3444
Fax: (202) 362-3493
Website: http://www.ncei.com
National Center for Home
Education
P.O. Box 125
Daeonian Springs, VA 22129
Phone: 540-338-5606
National Center for History
Education
26915 Westwood Road, Suite B-2
Westlake, OH 44145-4656
(216) 835-1776
National Council of State
Legislatures
1560 Broadway, Ste. 700
Denver, CO 80202
(303} 830-2200
National Independent Private Schools
Association
6210 17th Avenue West
Bradenton, FL 34209
(813) 798-3621
National
Institute for Educational Reform
Center for Excellence in Educational Options
1750 NE 167th Street
North Miami Beach, FL 33162
Phone: 800-986-3223 x 8732
Email: options@fcae.nova.edu
Website: http://fcae.nova.edu/options
National School Safety Center 4165 Thousand Oaks Boulevard Suite 290 Westlake Village, CA 91362 Phone: 805-373-9977
National Science Teacher Association
1840 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 243-7100
The National Center for Urban Partnerships coordinates initiatives which create partnerships involving K-16 educators and representatives from the community, corporate, and political sectors.
Nevada Policy Research Institute
P.O. Box 20312
Reno, NV 89515-0312
Telephone (702) 786-9600 or (800) 786-9602
E-mail: npri@policy.reno.nv.us
Internet address: http://www.npri.org
NPRI is a non-partisan and non-profit public policy research and education organizations that conducts and disseminates documented research on public policy issue important to Nevada and the nation.
North Carolina Education Alliance
200 W. Morgan Street, Suite 200
Raleigh, NC 27601
Phone: (919) 832-9756
Fax: (919) 821-5117
Website: http://www.nceducationalliance.org/
The North Carolina Education Alliance is dedicated to fundamental reform of the state's education system. NCEA believes that the focus of education should be on students rather than the system, because the system exists to serve the students.
North Carolina Education Reform Foundation
3510 Manford Drive
Durham, NC 27707
Telephone: (888) 294-3312
Fax: (919) 419-8833
Website: http://www.successnet.net/ncerf
Works to facilitate an informed debate of primary and secondary education market reform to expand educational opportunity for all children.
Progressive Policy Institute
518 C Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Telephone: (202) 547-0001
Fax: (202) 544-5014
E-mail: ssoler@dlcppi.org
Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization whose two-fold mission is to help leaders better understand the public's point of view on major policy issues and help citizens better understand critical policy issues so they can make their own more informed and thoughtful decisions. Drawing on its research, Public Agenda prepares a broad array of educational materials that help explain policy issues to the public in a balanced and easy-to-understand way. Citizens can use this information to weigh various choices and make educated decisions. Public Agenda maintains a nonpartisan balance in all of its work, and its materials have won praise for their credibility and fairness from elected officials from both political parties and experts and decision-makers across the political spectrum.
Small Schools Workshop, University of Illinois at Chicago
115 S. Sangamon Street, Room 112
Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: 312-413-9152
Fax: 312-413-5847
Website: http://www.uic.edu/depts/educ/ssw/
The Small Schools Workshop is a group of educators, organizers and researchers who collaborate with teachers, principals, and parents to create new, small, innovative learning communities in public schools. In addition to our interest in individual schools, the Small Schools Workshop actively explores the larger issues of education reform, with a particular focus on the role that small schools can have in furthering positive whole-school and systemic change.
State Policy Network
816 Mill Lake Road
Fort Wayne, IN 46845-6400
(219) 637-7778
Teach
For America
20 Exchange Place, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10005
(212) 425-9039
Website: http://www.teachforamerica.org
Teach for America is a national corps of diverse recent college graduates, of all academic majors, who commit two years to teach in under-resourced urban and rural public schools.
The Technology NetworkThe Technology Network is a national bipartisan political network of over 140 high technology industry leaders. Its mission is to pass federal and state laws that will benefit technology enterprises, their employees and investors, and foster continued growth of the New Economy. Part of their focus is on education reform issues, including charter schools.
Texas Public Policy Forum
P.O. Box 40519
San Antonio, TX 78229
Telephone: (210) 614-2649
Fax: (210) 614-0080
E-mail: tppf@txdirect.net
Website: http://www.tppf.org
The Texas Public Policy Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan research group based on the principles of limited government, free enterprise, private property rights, and individual responsibility. It is their mission to improve Texas government through educational research and data, and by recommending the findings to policy makers and other Texan leaders.
Thomas
B. Fordham Foundation
1627 K Street, N.W., Suite 600
Washington, DC 20006
Contact: Kelly Amis
Telephone: (202) 223-5452
Fax: (202) 223-9226
E-mail: KLAmis@aol.com
Website: http://www.edexcellence.net
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation supports research, publications, and action projects of national significance in elementary/secondary education reform, as well as significant education reform projects in Dayton, Ohio and vicinity.
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