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Canadian Foundations
Donner Canadian Foundation (www.donnerfoundation.org)
W. Garfield Weston Foundation (www.westonfoundation.org)
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Free Reading Booklet
Putting Reading First: A booklet on how children learn to read. Commissioned by the US Department of Education, the booklet sets out state-of-the-art information in simple, easy-to-understand language.
To order your free copy, e-mail .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Homeschooling Associations
Hamilton HomeSchool Resource Page
Ontario Christian Home Educators Connection
Independent School Organizations
Directory of private schools in Ontario
Accelerated Christian Schools Association
Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto
Association of Christian Schools International
Canadian Association of Independent Schools
Canadian Association of Private Language Schools
Canadian Council of Montessori Administrators
Federation of Independent Schools in Canada
Hamilton-Wentworth Family Action Council
Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools. See also the section on the Ontario 2003 provincial election and school choice
Action Groups
York Region Wants Choice a grassoots group of parents at York Region Regional School Board fighting to keep alternative schools at their board.
Children First School Choice Trust is Canada’s first privately funded program to help Ontario families improve their educational choices. Children First offers tuition assistance grants, so that parents who could not otherwise afford it can choose an independent elementary school for their children.
Ontario School Council Support Centre. Helping educators, parents and the community work better together for student success.
London Anti-Bullying Coalition is an independent non-profit, advocacy organization which strives to foster a culture of fairness, respect and equality for all students in every school, thus eliminating the problem of bullying in southwestern Ontario.
York Region Anti-Bullying Coalition works to eliminate bullying in the York Region of Ontario.
Kids First Canada promotes the well-being of children and their families, parental choice in child care, and for equity in child care funding
Society for Advancement of Excellence in Education has the mission to develop new Canadian knowledge on school improvement and foster the understanding of its use
The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, based in Washington, D.C., supports research, publications, and action projects of national significance in elementary/secondary education reform. The foundation seeks to advance understanding and acceptance of effective reform strategies that address the need for dramatically higher standards, accountability, educational diversity and choice, and a solid curriculum taught by knowledgeable instructors.
UNICEF: A League Table of Educational Disadvantage in Rich Nations
Autism Parent Advocate is a London-area organization that works to promote the well-being of children with autism.
Solaris Autism provides education, consultation, and support services
Information Resources—Foreign
An
Educators’ Guide to Schoolwide Reform found that only Direct Instruction, High Schools That Work, and Success for All
made the grade. Commissioned by five education groups-including the National
Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers-the report is the
most comprehensive rating of school reform programs.
Copies of the report, An Educators’ Guide to Schoolwide Reform, are available
from the sponsoring organizations for $15.95 each for nonmembers and $12.95 each
for members. The full text of the report is also available
here
Educators Reference Desk is the mother of all education resources. It is sponsored by Syracuse University, the U.S. Department of Education and Sun Microsystems, of Mtn. View, California. AskERIC has been rated among the top 5% of all sites on the Internet by Point Communications.
For information about Direct Instruction, see the Association for Direct Instruction, which also has useful essays on mathematics, reading, grouping, and Project Followthrough.
The Center for Education Reform is a “spunky, non-blobby group”, based in Washington, D.C., which operates as a clearinghouse for innovative reforms in public education, especially charter schools. The Center maintains a comprehensive database of education reform efforts.
Don Potter‘s site offers free phonics material and valuable essays.
Electronic Educational Excellence Network, a project of the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., features very knowledgeable articles and information about education reform in the U.S. Of particular interest is the Network’s report “The State of State Standards,” by Chester E. Finn, Jr., Michael J. Petrilli, and Gregg Vanourek, July 1998. Three Fordham staffers summarize the findings of the five previous state standards reports and tease out some lessons for American education
The Friedman Foundation, dedicated to the improvement in the quality of the education available to children of all income and social classes in the USA, whether that education is provided in government or private schools or at home. See Bill Robson and Claudia Hepburn’s paper on this site, Learning from Success: What Americans Can Learn from School Choice in Canada.
PBS TV: The Battle Over School Choice.
Reading Reform Foundation, a UK-based group which promotes a type of phonics education.
UK Department for Education and Skills:
performance
tables.
Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance contains research and information on school choice and school reform policy.
U.S. Charter Schools.
Parents for Evidence Based Education - a U.S. group that provides education information based on high-quality research.
Clackmannanshire, U.K. Reading Study - a long term study on the benefits of synthetic phonics instruction PDF version.
Knowledge is Power Program
National Reading Panel
Information Resources
The Schools We Need This is a new site that provides “information for parents by parents”.
School Rankings
Quebec (Montreal Economic Institute)
Alberta, BC, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick (Fraser Institute)
Atlantic Canada (Atlantic Institute for Market Studies)
BC, Ontario, Alberta C. D. Howe Institute)
Canadian Education Association
Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
Fraser Institute
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. Public Attitudes Towards Education in Ontario
Atlantic Institute for Market Studies
C.D. Howe Institute
Canadian Moms Online
Canadian School Choice Issues
Children First School Choice Trust (www.childrenfirstgrants.ca)
Kids First Parents Association of Canada (www.kidsfirstcanada.org)
Links to Sites about Education Choice and Education Reform
Canadian School Choice Issues
Information Resources—Canadian
Information Resources—Foreign
Action Groups
Independent School Organizations
Homeschooling Associations
Free Reading Booklet
Canadian Foundations