From early learning to the elementary, secondary and post-secondary
levels, quality education is critical
to America's success in an ever more competitive world economy.
At the center are teachers in public, charter and private schools as
well as many parents home schooling their children. Also entering
into the picture besides teachers and parents are administrators,
various levels of government, the teachers' unions, foundations and
other groups. Post-secondary education encompasses thousands of
community colleges, colleges and universities. Money is tight at
all levels. There is ongoing debate over the proper role of the
federal government in improving education.
Federal Government | Organizations
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
The White House:
Education
U.S.
Department
of Education
-National Center
for Education Statistics
-State
Departments
of
Education
-State
Resources
U.S.
Senate
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions
U.S.
House Committee on Education and the Workforce
ORGANIZATIONS
Education
Commission
of the States
"to help states develop effective policy and practice for public education by providing data, research, analysis and leadership; and by facilitating collaboration, the exchange of ideas among the states and long-range strategic thinking."
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: United States Education
"Help ensure greater opportunity for all Americans through the attainment of secondary and postsecondary education with genuine economic value."
"the largest volunteer child advocacy association in the nation"
National Education Association
"the nation's largest education association (3.2 million members)"
American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
"an affiliate of the AFL-CIO, was founded in 1916 and today represents
1.5 million members in more than 3,000 local affiliates nationwide."
The Foundation for Educational Choice
"Advancing Milton and Rose Friedman’s vision of school
choice for
all...established in 1996 to promote universal school choice as the
most effective and equitable way to improve the quality of K-12
education in
America."
"the nation’s vanguard organization for promoting, implementing, and enhancing K-12 educational choice...[seeks] to improve our nation’s K-12 education by advancing systemic and sustainable public policy that empowers parents, particularly those in low-income families, to choose the education they determine is best for their children."
The Center for Education Reform
"drives the creation of better
educational
opportunities for all children by leading parents, policymakers and the
media in boldly advocating for school choice, advancing the charter
school movement, and challenging the education establishment."
StudentsFirst.org (Michelle Rhee)
"to build a national movement to defend the interests of children in public education and pursue transformative reform, so that America has the best education system in the world."
American
Association of School
Administrators
Association of American Colleges and
Universities
American Association of Community
Colleges
National
School Boards Association: The Center for Public Education
...more
national
associations from
the
U.S.
Department
of
Education
National Home
Education Research
Institute
"Education Sector is an independent think tank that challenges conventional thinking in education policy. We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization committed to achieving measurable impact in education policy, both by improving existing reform initiatives and by developing new, innovative solutions to our nation's most pressing education problems."
American
Enterprise Institute-Education
The
Brookings
Institution-Brown Center on Education Policy
The
Brookings Institution-Center for Universal Education
Center
for
American
Progress-Education
Cato
Institute-Education
and Child Policy
The
Heartland Institute-School Reform News
Heritage
Foundation-Education
New America
Foundation-Education Policy Program
Rand
Coorporation-Education and the Arts
Urban
Institute-Education
PARTY PLATFORMS
Democrats, Republicans and Major Third
Parties
