Public schools and school districts locator http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/search.asp

http://www.centerforautism.com/

The mission of the Center for Summer Learning is to create high quality summer learning opportunities for all young people. The Center is committed to expanding summer learning opportunities for disadvantaged children and youth as a strategy for closing the achievement gap. http://www.summerlearning.org/

Our mission is to create and sustain equitable, intellectually vibrant, personalized schools and to make such schools the norm of American public education. http://www.essentialschools.org/

College Navigator is a free consumer information tool designed to help students, parents, high school counselors, and others get information about nearly 7,000 postsecondary institutions in the United States. http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/

College.gov aims to motivate students with inspirational stories and information about planning, preparing and paying for college. It includes an interactive tool for students to create an "I'm going" personalized roadmap that details the steps to take to get to college; and content organized and presented in a way for students to easily find the answers to their higher education questions: Why Go? What to Do? and How to Pay? http://www.college.gov.

The Crosswalks project recognizes that to prepare students to work effectively with children and families from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, higher education faculty and administrators, working in concert with family members and community partners, need support in understanding the meaning of cultural diversity and how to effectively integrate it into all facets of their preservice programs. The Crosswalks "toolbox" is searchable by state and national standards (to discover resources that address both content and diversity), by aspect of diversity (e.g., linguistic diversity) and by type of instructional resource (e.g., case studies, activities, syllabi).  http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~scpp/crosswalks/toolbox/search.cfm

The Education Conservancy helps students, colleges and high schools overcome commercial interference in college admissions. By affirming educational values, EC works to reestablish educational authority, equity and access as college admission precepts. It unites educational principles with admission practices. It returns control of college admissions to those who are directly involved in education: students, colleges, parents and high schools. It calms the frenzy and hype that plague contemporary college admissions. http://www.educationconservancy.org

Education.com is an online resource for parents with kids in preschool through grade 12. On our site you can: Search over 4,000 reference articles from the best and most authoritative sources across the web. From the NYU Child Study Center to the Autism Society of America, Reading is Fundamental to Stanford University School of Education, our Reference Desk brings the best information from the most trusted universities, professional associations, non-profit institutes, and government agencies together in one place.  Browse our online magazine for hundreds of ideas that take learning beyond the classroom and into your family's everyday life. We cover topics across the parental spectrum-- from practicing fractions by baking cookies, to how to deal with ADHD, bullying, to navigating the parent-teacher conference.  Explore virtual neighborhoods where parents with similar interests or challenges connect to trade advice and share their experiences with one another-whether it's about dyslexia or dioramas.http://www.education.com/

The mission of Holistic Education, Inc. is to help people develop their individual strengths and capacities to the fullest possible extent through holistic education.  http://www.holistic-education.net/

We are a group of researchers, teachers, graduate students, parents, and others who would like to make education more effective. To achieve this aim we have developed theories, principles, and practices designed to explain, describe, and exemplify our new approach to educating. This website is designed to introduce you to these theories, principles, and practical techniques. We call this new approach Imaginative Education (IE) because engaging students' imaginations in learning, and teachers' imaginations in teaching, seems to us crucial to making knowledge in the curriculum vivid and meaningful to students. Our work is dedicated to showing how this can be done routinely in everyday classrooms and at home. http://www.ierg.net/

This site was created to provide a "one-stop shop" for resources related to IDEA and its implementing regulations, released on August 3, 2006. It is a "living" website and will change and grow as resources and information become available. When fully implemented, the site will provide searchable versions of IDEA and the regulations, access to cross-referenced content from other laws (e.g., the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), etc.), video clips on selected topics, topic briefs on selected regulations, links to OSEP's Technical Assistance and Dissemination (TA&D) Network and a Q&A Corner where you can submit questions, and a variety of other information sources. As items are completed and added to this site, we invite you to grow and learn with us as we implement these regulations

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

This site is about learning in freedom, taking responsibility for your own learning. It shows you how to use your own initiative in learning, so you can use schools and teachers just when they are helpful to you, and voluntarily chosen by you. There's a specific page on this site to show you how to get started in learning in freedom, and there are plenty of other pages on this site about other subjects. To find a specific page on this Web site, you can keep on reading for more links from this home page, which links to the main pages on this site, or you can use the site map or the search links on the bottom of every page (and on the top of most pages) to help you find what you are looking for. Besides internal links, there are links to more than 1,000 other Web sites on this site's more than forty pages. http://learninfreedom.org/

LDA's mission is to create opportunities for success for all individuals affected by learning disabilities and to reduce the incidence of learning disabilities in future generations. http://www.ldaamerica.us/

LEAD stands for Legislative Education Action Drive and is dedicated to informing the public on issues affecting education at the state level and presenting alternative concepts of school and educational choice to the public, elected officials, and the media.  Our mission is to encourage legislation in all states to provide for Universal Tuition Tax Credits; which would enable all children the freedom to pursue an education in the primary and secondary institution of their own choosing  http://www.leadaction.org/

Magnet Schools of America provides leadership for innovative instructional programs that promote equity, diversity, and academic excellence for all students in public school choice programs. http://www.magnet.edu/

MENTOR recognizes that, although nearly 17.6 million young Americans need or want mentoring, only 3 million are in formal, high-quality mentoring relationships. That means more than 14.6 million young people still need mentors. That unmet need constitutes what we call the "mentoring gap." MENTOR works to close that gap. http://forums.mentoring.org/ntlm/

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/

At NCPIE, our mission is simple: to advocate the involvement of parents and families in their children's education, and to foster relationships between home, school, and community to enhance the education of all our nation's young people. http://www.ncpie.org/

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

The mission of PACER Center is to expand opportunities and enhance the quality of life of children and young adults with disabilities and their families, based on the concept of parents helping parents.  ...With assistance to individual families, workshops, materials for parents and professionals, and leadership in securing a free and appropriate public education for all children, PACER's work affects and encourages families in Minnesota and across the nation.  http://www.pacer.org/

Parents in Charge Foundation (PIC) exists to educate on behalf of school choice reform at the grassroots level. Since its founding in March 2001, the Parents in Charge Foundation’s education and awareness efforts have played an instrumental role in school choice victories in Arizona and Washington, D.C. Parents in Charge has also supported efforts in Colorado, Florida, and Utah. For the last two years more than 80% of our efforts have focused on South Carolina  http://www.picfoundation.org/index.htm

Are you dreading your next Individual Education Program (IEP) meeting? Are you already in disagreement with your IEP team or your school staff over needed services for your child? If so, you are not alone. Below are some "conversation stoppers" that parents may hear when advocating for their children. Knowing what the "real" issues might be, some respectful but effective responses, and what the laws say about educating children with disabilities can assist you in getting your IEP team meetings moving again in a more positive direction! http://nclid.unco.edu/nclid/ssn/

Policymakers, educators, and individual parents are working hard to improve our schools, and they deserve respect and gratitude for taking on such a difficult challenge. However, education leaders are often forced to make critical decisions based on incomplete information, simply because there hasn't been a national, easily searchable clearinghouse for education information and analysis-until now.  SchoolMatters gives policymakers, educators, and parents the tools they need to make better-informed decisions that improve student performance. SchoolMatters will educate, empower, and engage education stakeholders.  http://www.schoolmatters.com/

The STAND UP Coalition includes more than 50 community-based schools, education organizations, and others from throughout the country which have joined forces to address a common goal: demanding a solution our education crisis. The coalition works to engage all Americans in becoming part of the solution by providing valuable information and resources parents, guardians, concerned citizens, and communities can use to help make sure all young people graduate high school ready for college, work and citizenship. http://www.standup.org/

The NAICU consumer-information initiative -- the University and College Accountability Network (U-CAN) -- is designed to give, in a common format, prospective students and their families concise, Web-based consumer-friendly information on individual private colleges and universities. U-CAN consists of hundreds of institutional profiles that contain comparable data and links to qualitative campus information. The profiles are displayed in a common template that was developed by NAICU based on consumer feedback. Click here to download a sample profile. http://www.ucan-network.org