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CER Website Receives Top Honors
(May 8, 1998, Washington, DC) The Center for Education Reform's Website is HOT! So says Washington, DC City Pages, which has chosen http://edreform.com to receive its DC "HOT Site Award." City Pages lauds CER for going "the extra mile to make [the CER Website] an asset to the community." City Pages recognizes the CER Website as a DC-based service that offers "significant content" that is "interesting and resourceful to users."
Since the Center for Education Reform Website was launched in November, 1995, it has received over a quarter of a million visits from individuals across the country and around the world. The CER Website provides over 350 pages offering research, resources and perspective on education reform issues and action from charter schools and school choice to academic standards and teacher professionalism.
Washington, DC City Pages' Hot Site Award comes on the heels of an award by Education World (tm) Search Engine, which included the Center for Education Reform's Website in its "Best of March" 1998. "On behalf of all net-surfing educators, we thank you for your contribution in making the web valuable for the education community," said Patricia Carnabuci of Education World, in notifying CER of the award.
The CER Website is ranked among the Lycos Search Engine's TOP 5% web pages, "a selective directory of top-shelf sites rated by the Web's most experienced reviewers... [as] the very best the Web has to offer." Their reviewers found the site "equally useful to those dipping their toes into the reform pool and those who have been soaking for years.... While thinking globally, this site empowers you to act locally."
Jeanne Allen, CER president, said, "The Center for Education Reform Website allows us to provide timely and in-depth information and assistance to hundreds of thousands of people we might not otherwise reach. Every month via the CER Website we receive and respond to hundreds of requests for help and guidance from parents, educators, public officials and concerned citizens interested in furthering educational access, equity and excellence in their community and state. We are gratified with the recent recognition of our Website, and as City Pages exhorts, we intend to 'keep up the excellent work.' In the coming months, CER will continue to improve upon and expand both the content and the features of our Website to enhance further this free, national resource for education reform."
To visit the Center for Education Reform Website, point your browser to http://edreform.com
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The Center for Education Reform is a national, independent, non-profit advocacy organization founded in 1993 to provide support to individuals and groups who are working to bring fundamental reforms to their schools. CER is the leading authority for information on innovative reforms in education and works in states and communities across the country to advance the cause of educational excellence.