Useful Websites
Chapter 2: Science for All
High Schools for the New Millennium
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/nr/downloads/ed/edwhitepaper.pdf
This paper describes the Gates Foundation's efforts to radically change American high schools by providing grants to public school systems to reduce the size of high schools (200 - 600 students), provide a more challenging and intimate school environment, and improve the success of all students. A new set of R's are emphasized in these new high schools: Rigor, Relevance and Relationships. Although the results are mixed, this is one of the most significant efforts to date to improve high school education for urban school districts.
International Education and Resource Network
http://www.iearn.org
Since 1988, iEARN has pioneered on-line school linkages to enable students to engage in meaningful educational projects with peers in their countries and around the world.
The American Forum for Global Education
http://www.globaled.org/
For over thirty years, the American Forum has been nationally recognized for providing leadership and assistance to school systems, state departments of education, and colleges and universities, by initiating hundreds of programs and developing educational materials, teacher training seminars and publications to guide and implement these programs. Its goal is promoting the education of our nation's youth for responsible citizenship in an increasingly interconnected and rapidly changing world.
Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/crespar/CReSPaR.html
The Center, at Johns Hopkins and Howard University, conducts research and promotes programs to transform schooling for students placed at risk.
Center for Talent Development
http://www.ctd.northwestern.edu/
Located at Northwestern University, the Talent Development Center serves gifted students and their families through a program of research and programming.
Federal Resource Center for Special Education
http://www.dssc.org/frc/
The FRC supports a nationwide technical assistance network to respond to the needs of students with disabilities, especially students from under-represented populations. Through its work with the RRCs and the technical assistance networks, the FRC provides a national perspective for establishing technical assistance activities within and across regions by identifying and synthesizing emerging issues and trends.
All Kinds of Minds
http://www.allkindsofminds.org/
All Kinds of Minds provides programs, tools, and a common language for parents, educators, and clinicians to help students with differences in learning achieve success in the classroom and in life. Founded in 1995, All Kinds of Minds is a private non-profit Institute, affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, that offers a powerful system of programs for helping kids succeed.
Office of Special Education
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/osep/index.html?src=mr
OSEP is dedicated to improving results for infants, toddlers, children and youth wit disabilities ages’ birth through 21 by providing leadership and financial support to assist states and local districts.
Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI)
http://seriweb.com/
Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) is a collection of Internet accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education. This collection exists in order to make on-line Special Education resources more easily and readily available in one location.
Multicultural Resources
http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/multicultural/front_multicultural.htm
A collection of articles and resources on multicultural education from the New Horizons for Learning website.