Education Reform Strategies
Innovative Programs
This series of articles from The Leadership Conference Education Fund examines innovative education reform programs.
- Higher Achievement Program: Intellectual Capacities Built through Effort - 06/14/06
- High School Reforms: Higher Standards for Better Outcomes - 04/05/06
- Using Child Development as the Cornerstone of Academic Success - 03/22/06
- A Court-Ordered Framework for Educational Advocacy - 03/15/06
- National Evaluation Helps Set the Standard for Teach for America - 03/01/06
- George I. Sanchez Charter High School - 02/22/06
- National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) - 02/15/06
- Merck Institute for Science Education (MISE) - 02/08/06
- IDEAS: Fostering an Appreciation for Science in the Daily Life of the Classroom - 02/01/06
- Ohio's Schools of Promise: How Exemplary Title I Schools Are Working to Close the Achievement Gap - 01/25/06
- The New York Adequacy Study - 01/17/06
- The KIPP Foundation School Leadership Program: Inspiring and Supporting Leaders in Education - 12/29/05
- Teach For America - 09/01/05
- High Tech High: Preparing Students for the 21st Century - 08/01/05
Charter Schools
- Advocates Say D.C. Charter Amendment Integral to School's Improvement - 06/02/06
- Charter School Diversity Producing Diverse Results - 11/24/04
- Charter Schools and Race: A Lost Opportunity for Integrated Education - Report - Harvard University - 07/10/02
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Difficult Choices: Do Magnet Schools Serve Our Children in Need? - Report - Citizen's Commission on Civil Rights - January 1997
English-Language Learners
- Quality Counts 2009: How English-Language Learners Are Putting Schools to the Test - Report - Education Week - January 2009
Access to Higher Education
- New Report Finds College Financial Aid Not Going to Neediest Students - 09/06/06
- Promise Abandoned: How Policy Choices and Institutional Practices Restrict College Opportunities (pdf) - The Education Trust - 8/31/06
- Civil Rights Coalition Works to "Reclaim Access" to Higher Education - Press Release - 10/24/05
- Advocates Say New Bill Threatens Access to Higher Ed - 09/09/05
- Closing the Gap: Moving from Rhetoric to Reality in Opening Doors to Higher Education for African-American Students (pdf) - Report - NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. - June 2005
- Students Take Their Message to Capitol Hill - 04/06/05
- Substance Abuse, Civil Rights Communities Unified Against Higher Education Act Drug Provision - 04/22/03
- National Dialogue Calls for Increase in Federal Need-based Financial Aid - 01/22/03
- Admissions & Omissions: How "The Numbers" Are Used to Exclude Deserving Students: 2005-2006 CAPAA Findings (pdf) - Report - Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA - 06/01/06
- Latino Policy and Issues Brief: Community College as a Pathway to Chicana/o Doctorate Production (pdf) - Report - University of California - 06/30/05
- Corporate CEOs Urge Less Emphasis on SATs - 06/01/01
- Letter to the President of the University of Dayton re: Online Admissions Policy - 04/03/01
