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A blog entry about a UK student voice project that reads like a conscientious, powerful effort.Victorian Student Representative Council
The VicSRC is equivalent to a district-wide student councilRoger Holdsworth: Education and Worldwide Music
Roger is based out of Victoria, OZ, and runs Connect magazine.Project VOYCE- Home
A Denver-based program. "Our mission is to make youth voice real in school renewal to improve student achievement through action research, leadership development, and community partnerships."Democratic Education Blog
Dana Benniss great blog exploring all angles of democratic ed.Resource Clearinghouse: Engaged
ASCDs collection of student engagement resources, mostly focused on their own materials, along with FFYI, a Wingspread paper, and other materials.Give us our voice in class
If pupils had a genuine say in how schools were run, behaviour would improve dramatically. Hannah Couchman of the ESSA tells the truth to The Guardian newspaper.Community-Based Learning: Engaging students for success and citizenship
Students are bored. Research shows that as many as 60% of all students are disengaged from learning. Another new study funded by the Gates Foundation, highlights disengagement as a key factor in the dTeam Up With Youth: Schools
Feds page on youth involvement in schools. Wow.The Way We See It: Youth Speak Out on Education
What makes a teacher worth paying attention to? What makes a school worth going to? We asked students themselves. Young filmmakers from the Listen Up! national network wrote, shot and edited this poweRuled by our own people: Ghanian adolescents conceptions of citizenship
This study investigates the ways in which 150 Ghanaian junior secondary students negotiate the tensions between ethnic and national history in building conceptions of democratic citizenship. While unoCross City Campaign
A national network of urban school reform leaders, the Cross City Campaign seeks to reconnect schools with their communities and reform urban school districts in nine cities. On their website, find inNational Clearing House for Comprehensive School Reform
NCCSR collects and disseminates information that builds the capacity of schools to raise the academic achievement of all students. Their website includes models of comprehensive school reform, a libraThe MySpace Generation
Article from Business Week mag re: youth using internetPupil voice and citizenship education
By Jean Ruddick. About ways of eliciting pupils perspectives that teachers could make use of in the context of citizenship education.ASBJ Education Vital Signs - 2006
Education Vital Signs is a compendium of key education statistics and trends for public K-12 schools nationwide. It is published each December as a print and online supplement to The American School BCouncil of Great City Schools
CGCS is an information and advocacy organization of K-12 schools in 50 large U.S. cities, promoting inner-city urban education. The site contains information about education in larg city school distriCouncil of Chief State School Officers
the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a nationwide, nonprofit organization composed of the public officials who head departments of elementary and secondary education in the states, thDeveloping Educational Standards
An annotated list of Internet sites with K-12 educational standards and curriculum frameworks documents." Listed by source, subject, and state.Pathways to School Improvement
Pathways synthesizes research, policy, and best practices on issues critical to educators engaged in school improvement, such as assessment, at-risk students, family & community, instruction, leadERIC - Education Resources Information Center
Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the US Department of Education, the new ERIC, released in September 2004, allows users access to the ERIC bibliographic database, "the world’sSudbury Education Resource Network
Free, Democratic SchoolsRethinking Schools
Rethinking Schools, a small nonprofit organization, "attempts to be both visionary and practical: visionary because we need to be inspired by each others vision of schooling; practical because fAACTE Education Policy Clearinghouse
The purpose of this site is to promote access to high quality information that will assist users in the study of education policies, especially as related to teacher preparation. The AACTE Education PGo Ask Alice!
Columbia Universitys Health Q&A Internet Service. The mission of Go Ask Alice! is to increase access to, and use of, health information by providing factual, in-depth, straightforward, and nonjudEducation Development Center, Inc.
More than 335 projects dedicated to enhancing learning, promoting health, and fostering a deeper understanding of the world.National Center for Learning and Citizenship (Education Commission of the States)
The NCLC web site has numerous publications, databases and other resources on national, state, and local public policies addressing citizenship education and service-learning.
