Website Suggestions

Tension between concerns for excellence and concerns for diversity and equity

• Excerpts from Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol
• SLJ Online: An Unequal Education by Jonathan Kozol
• Enid Lee

The educator’s web site, featuring more information on anti-racist education.

• Rethinking Schools: Tracking and the Project Method

A fifth grade teacher reflects on tracking and the significance of teaching to all skill levels in his classroom.

Standardized assessment as indicative of educational excellence

• Online News Hour: School Testing

Four educational experts discuss President George W. Bush’s testing proposals.

• Fair Test: The National Center for Fair and Open Testing

One of the leading watchdog organizations of standardized testing.

• The Business Roundtable: Education

An influential business group throws its weight behind testing in this statement.

Student and parent choice in schooling

• About School Choice from the Center for Education Reform

Pro-school choice site.

• School Vouchers: The Wrong Choice for Public Education

Anti-Defamation League site features the arguments against school choice.

Restructuring in school governance, school processes, and the teaching profession

• School Governance

Balancing Power
April 1998 article on Chicago’s Local School councils, with additional links to relevant articles.


The Who, What, and Why of Site-Based Management
From Educational Leadership, a look at making site-based management work

• Restructuring School Processes

The Coalition of Essential Schools Home Page

Rethinking Schools Online
A provocative online newspaper.

• Reshaping the Teaching Profession: National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future

Information on NCTAF, its publications, and additional resources.


Quality Counts 2000: Who Should Teach?
The executive summary of a special report by Ed Week, with links to the entire article, including "State of the States."