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The National Center for Fair & Open Testing [FairTest]
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:44-05:00The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial. The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) advances quality [...]
Parents Across America
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:44-05:00Parents Across America (PAA) is a non-partisan, non-profit grassroots organization that connects parents and activists from across the U.S. to share ideas and work together to improve our nation’s public schools. PAA is committed to bringing the voice of public school parents – and common sense – [...]

The Coalition of Essential Schools
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:44-05:00About the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) is at the forefront of creating and sustaining personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools. Essential schools are places of powerful learning where all students have the chance to reach their fullest potential. By coaching for cultures of continuous improvement and [...]
Border Crossers
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:44-05:00Our Name is inspired by the Critical Multiculturalist Henry Giroux, who said, “Schools (should) become places where students and teachers can become border crossers engaged in critical and ethical reflection about what it means to bring a wider variety of cultures into dialogue with each other.” Border [...]
Empowered By Play
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:44-05:00Empowered By Play Mission: To help families and teachers protect and promote imaginative play in this way-too busy, media-filled, consumer-driven world. Empowered by Play was founded in 2009 by teacher-turned-activist Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin, M.Ed. An early childhood educator for 25 years, she is also a mother of [...]
Education News Today
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:44-05:00Education News Today is a Global Leading News Source covering educational, political, business, and environmental issues. Since 1997 EducationNews has provided the latest daily EducationNews coverage from world-wide sources. In addition to the U. S. and world media publications, commentaries and reports are featured and include comprehensive [...]

PDK International; Phi Delta Kappa International
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:44-05:00PDK International, publisher of Kappa magazine, is a professional association for educators that brings together the top leaders, thinkers, and doers to collaborate and inspire one another. By providing professional learning opportunities, targeted networking, and relevant research, PDK helps researchers and practitioners deepen their expertise, elevate their [...]
Rethinking Schools
empathy2016-11-29T17:39:45-05:00About Rethinking Schools In 1986, a group of Milwaukee-area teachers had a vision. They wanted not only to improve education in their own classrooms and schools, but to help shape reform throughout the public school system in the United States. Today that vision is embodied in Rethinking [...]