Media and others occasionally rank states, districts, and schools on the basis of AP Exam results, despite repeated warnings that such rankings may be problematic. AP Exams are valid measures of students' content mastery of college-level studies in academic disciplines, but should never be used as a sole measure for gauging educational excellence and equity. Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader (latest version recommended). http://www.collegeboard.com/about/news_info/ap/2005/index.html

The mission of the journal is to advance scholarly thought by publishing articles promoting dialogue, research, practice, and policy as well as developing a community of scholarship. CIE uses a rolling publication format. Articles will be added as they are reviewed and accepted. http://cie.asu.edu/index.php

Helping state leaders shape education policy - Policymakers interested in particular education topics generally can find what they need on the ECS Web site or can get more detailed information from the Clearinghouse. For further access to timely education policy news, ECS has two flagship electronic publications: e-Clips, a daily roundup of the nation's top education news and e-Connection, a weekly bulletin highlighting state policy trends, new reports, upcoming meetings and events, useful Web sites and ECS news. ECS also publishes four bimonthly, topic-specific bulletins: Citizenship Matters, which examines efforts to improve citizenship education in our nation's schools; Governance Notes, which examines school governance across the nation; Leadership Links which provides links to key information on education leadership; and TQ Update, which provides information on improving teaching quality.

The Education Counts database contains more than 250 state-level K-12 education indicators, many spanning multiple years. Included are data collected for Education Week's annual reports, Quality Counts and Technology Counts.  http://www.edweek.org/rc/edcounts/

Education Sector is an independent education policy think tank devoted to developing innovative solutions to the nation's most pressing educational problems. We are nonprofit and nonpartisan, both a dependable source of sound thinking on policy and an honest broker of evidence in key education debates throughout the United States. http://www.educationsector.org/

Various and sundry resources http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/dkitchen/TE655/resources.htm

This site has been designated as an "Internet Site of the Day" by THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION and also as a selection of the Internet Scout Report for the Social Sciences. A mirror site is located at http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfrnb/index.html  

Welcome to the History of Education and Childhood web I'm hosting. I intend this to be a place where colleagues can describe their ongoing research, post syllabi or links to teaching web sites, discuss archives and other source materials, and post news about outlets for research and other discussions. Please register as a contributor and comment on individual items as you see fit. My thanks to members of the H-Education advisory board for being my pre-announcement testers in early January.—Sherman Dorn http://www.shermandorn.com/hec/

The Education Week series "Leading for Learning," funded by the Wallace Foundation, includes two special reports on leadership in education. Featured in this year's report is the key role that central offices are playing in improving student achievement. The 2004 report focused on principals' changing jobs.  http://www.edweek.org/ew/collections/wallace/index.html

Measuring Up 2004 consists of the national report card for higher education and fifty state report cards. Its purpose is to provide the public and policymakers with information to assess and improve postsecondary education in each state. Measuring Up 2004 is the third in a series of biennial report cards. This web site provides state leaders, policymakers, researchers, and others with access to the national report card as well as access to all fifty state report cards. In addition, the site can compare any state with the best-performing states in each performance category, compare indicator scores and state grades for any performance category, obtain source and technical information for indicators and weights, and download the reports. Further, the Measuring Up web site has the capacity to view previous report cards from 2000 and 2002. http://measuringup.highereducation.org/default.cfm

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as "the Nation's Report Card," is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Since 1969, assessments have been conducted periodically in reading, mathematics, science, writing, U.S. history, civics, geography, and the arts.  http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/

The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization, established in 1983. The NCPA's goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector. Topics include reforms in health care, taxes, Social Security, welfare, criminal justice, education and environmental regulation. http://www.ncpa.org/iss/edu/

To help facilitate the involvement of organizations and individuals in developing the National Education Technology Plan, the Department of Education awarded a contract to a team consisting of the American Institutes for Research, the International Society for Technology in Education, and the State Educational Technology Directors Association. Each worked closely with the Department to coordinate input from the public and disseminate information about the Plan development process.  http://www.nationaledtechplan.org/default.asp