Resources

Research on Reforms was developed because of the urgency to collect data and analyze the findings to determine if the educational reforms of 2005 were working. The 2005 Louisiana Legislature enacted laws that allowed experimentation in the public schools, and recognized that experimenting with the lives of [...]

The new LLiving in Dialogue launched in August of 2014. It is a completely independent publication, edited by retired educator Anthony Cody. Its purpose is to foster discussion around critical issues related to public education in the United States and the world. The original [...]

Nancy Carlsson Paige Nancy Carlsson Paige is Professor Emerita at Lesley University where she taught teachers for more than 30 years and was a founder of the University's Center for Peaceable Schools. Nancy has written and spoken extensively about the impact of media [...]

Transforming Education Systems Alliance (TESA) is a national movement-building alliance designed to spur and catalyze work across each of the U.S. education field’s ten subsectors toward a vision of healthy, nurturing, rigorous educational systems. Such systems support youth and adults to contribute to the well-being of all [...]

Participatory Action Research Center for Education Organizing (PARCEO) was created in 2011 as a PAR-based education, research, and training center. PARCEO’s work grows out of a commitment to being a resource and support for groups and individuals interested in integrating or strengthening PAR into their organizing and [...]

Deborah Meier is a senior scholar at NYU’s Steinhardt School, and Board member of the Coalition of Essential Schools, FairTest, SOS and Dissent and The Nation magazines. She spent 45 years working in K-12th grade public schools in New York City (East Harlem) and [...]

The North Dakota Study Group (NDSG) is a diverse network of progressive educators dedicated to advocacy for useful, fair, and democratic ways to document and assess children's learning and offering a criticism of educational reform and practice in the light of an enduring concern with democracy and [...]

Change the Stakes is a group of parents and educators who want the best education for all children. We are a growing group concerned with the harm high stakes-testing is doing to our children and schools. We oppose an over-emphasis on tests and misuse of the results [...]

Defending the Early Years (DEY) seeks to rally educators to take action on policies that affect the education of young children. The principal goals of the project are: To mobilize the early childhood community to speak out with well-reasoned arguments against inappropriate standards, assessments, and classroom [...]