Resources

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From CNN.com and TIME.com

CNNfyi.com

CNN.com/Education

From CNNfn.com -- Back-to-school budgets and bargains

From TIME.com -- Seceding from school

TIME.com: Schools of the Year (2001)

General Information

American Academy of Pediatrics - Back to school tips

AskERIC - Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally-funded national information system

Boston Latin School - The first public school in America, founded in 1635

Center for Education Reform

(The) Council of Chief State School Officers

Education Commission of the States - A nonprofit organization that helps governors, legislators, state education officials and others identify, develop and implement policies to improve student learning at all levels

Education legislation - An index of legislation, maintained by the U.S. Department of Education

Education Policy Analysis Archives - Published at Arizona State University

Head Start

(The) National Academies

National Center for Education Statistics - Data on education in the United States and other nations, maintained by the Department of Education

National Education Association - A volunteer-based organization committed to the cause of advancing public education in the United States; the oldest and largest such organization in America

National Library of Education - Resource center for education information, maintained by the Department of Education

National PTA

Rethinking Schools Online - An educational journal

U.S. Department of Education

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Education

Curricula and educational programs

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development

First Amendment Schools - A nationwide initiative, launched by the First Amendment Center and the Association for Supervisionand Curriculum Development, to transform how public schools model and teach students the rights and responsibilities of the First Amendment and citizenship in a democracy

Character Education

Character Counts - A nonpartisan, nonsectarian coalition of schools, communities and nonprofit organizations working to advance character education

(The) Character Education Partnership - A nonpartisan coalition of organizations and individuals dedicated to developing moral character and civic virtue in youths

Educational Resources Information Center - Character Education

The Jefferson Center for Character Education - A national, non-profit, non-sectarian organization, founded in 1963, producing and promoting programs to teach character education in grades K through 12

Family and Consumer Science Education

American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences

Cornell University/ Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections -- What was Home Economics?

Family and Consumer Science Education

Meals

National School Lunch Program

School Breakfast Program

Safety

Eddie Eagle Fact Sheet - A comprehensive curriculum for parents, teachers and law enforcement personnel to teach gun safety issues to pre-kindergarten through 6th-grade schoolchildren

National School Safety Center - Provides information and resources, identifies strategies and promising programs to support safe schools for children worldwide

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