Useful Periodicals
Educational Policy (Corwin Press)
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (AERA)
Phi Delta Kappan (monthly magazine of Phi Delta Kappa)
Web Sites
http://epaa.asu.edu/
Educational Policy Analysis Archives, an on-line journal.
An essential site for anyone working on ed policy analysis
http://www.upenn.edu/gse/cpre/
Center for Policy Research in Education
An important site for ed policy analysis
http://www.edpolicy.org/
Educational policy site of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
http://www.edweek.org/
Education Week, national weekly newspaper in education
http://www.pdkintl.org/kappan/kappan.htm
Web site for Kappan magazine
http://www.policy.com/
Home page may not always feature ed policy,
but search engine often turns up helpful work
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/
Often has good policy articles; see oiece by Deborah Meier
on standards, with critical reactions
http://www.ed.gov
U.S. Department of Education home page
http://nces.ed.gov
National Center for Educational Statistics home page
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
Electronic catalog of the National Center for Educational Statistics
http://www.mde.state.mi.us/
Michigan Department of Education home page
http://www.aft.org/
American Federation of Teachers home page
http://www.nea.org/
National Education Association home page
http://www.treasury.state.mi.us/meap/index.htm
MEAP (Michigan Educational Assessment Program) scores,
by school and school district, MEAP Scholarship Data
http://www.nbpts.org/nbpts/
National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
Voluntary national certification for experienced teachers
http://www.ncate.org/
National Council for Accreditation Teacher Education
The older and more traditional accrediting agency
http://www.teac.org/
Teacher Education Accreditation Council
Newer agency, with different orientation to accreditation
http://www.policyreview.com/
Where political conservatives do policy analysis
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Exceptional site for federal legislation
http://www.schooltakeover.com
Info on Compton, CA, takeover; links to sites that describe other takeovers
http://www.cse.ucla.edu
UCLA Center for the Study of Evaluation, and National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing. Excellent information and extensive set of links to related sites
http://www.loc.gov/
Library of Congress Home Page
http://www.infoplease.com
General almanac-type resource, for basic background information
Political Information Web Sites
http://www.vote-smart.org
Amazing amount of information on candidates for political office around the nation
http://www.cato.org
Site of the libertarian Cato Institute, which offers publications extolling school choice
Web Resources Pertaining to Equity and Equal Opportunity
http://www.midsouth.rr.com/civilrights
History of civil rights movement, with excellent photo gallery
Privatization
(See separate bibliography at http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gfenster/bibvoucher1-8.PDF )
Teaching and Teacher Education Resources
http://www.aacte.org
Web site for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Use link to teacher education policy pages.
James Raths, A Consumer's Guide to Teacher Standards. Phi Delta Kappan, October, 1999 (81:2), pp. 136-142.
Systemic Reform
Gerald W. Bracey, The Ninth Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education. Phi Delta Kappan, October, 1999 (vol. 81, no. 2), 147-168
Gerald W. Bracey, Put to the Test: An Educator's and Consumer's Guide to Standardized Testing. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Kappa International,
See November, 1999 (81:3) issue of Phi Delta Kappan, with these articles:
R. J. Stiggins, Assessment, Student Confidence, and School Success
M. Gail Jones, et al., The Impact of High-Stakes Testing on Teachers and Students in North Carolina
Al Ramirez, Assessment-Driven Reform: The Emperor Still Has No Clothes
K. A. Sirotnik & K. Kimball, Standards for Standards-Based Accountability Systems
Betty Lou Whitford & Ken Jones, Eds., Accountability, Assessment, and Teacher Commitment: Lessons from Kentucky's Reform Efforts. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000.