Society for Quality Education: Sharing Proven Effective Practices: Resources

Links

Canadian School Choice Issues

Kids First Parents Association of Canada (www.kidsfirstcanada.org)

Information Resources

School Rankings
Quebec (Montreal Economic Institute)
Alberta, BC, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick (Fraser Institute)
Atlantic Canada (Atlantic Institute for Market Studies)
Ontario (C. D. Howe Institute)

Canadian Education Association
Council of Ministers of Education, Canada
Canadian Moms Online
International Association for K-12 Online Learning

Information Resources—Foreign

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.

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.

PBS TV: The Battle Over School Choice.

Reading Reform Foundation, a UK-based group which promotes phonics.

Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance contains research and information on school choice and school reform policy.

National Centre on School Choice, which conducts research on how school choice affects individuals, communities, and systems.

Parents for Evidence Based Education - a U.S. group that provides education information based on high-quality research.

Knowledge is Power Program

Mathematically Correct

Illinois Loop

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