Directory: Top/Society/Issues/Education

Educational Pathways to Power
An address by Hilary Lips - recipient of the New Zealand Federation of University Women's Distinguished American Scholar Award - and distributed by Radford University's Center for Gender Studies.
http://www.runet.edu/~gstudies/sources/nz/keyaddr.htm
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NPR : Homework: How Much is Too Much?
NPR presents a multi-part series on homework -- how educators are balancing mandates to improve test scores against a chronic lack of resources and the need for children to have enough time to be children. [Four segments, each in Realaudio format.]
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2003/mar/homework/index.html
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The Condition of Education (USA)
An integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000, 2001 and 2002.
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/
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Heritage Foundation Research: Education
Subject index of the think tank's policy papers on school choice, students' rights, charter schools, and other issues in U.S. education.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/
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Future of Freedom Foundation: Education
Collected essays presenting a libertarian perspective on the U.S. education system. Among the issues addressed are vouchers, compulsory attendance laws, and school violence.
http://www.fff.org/issues/education.asp
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Lessontutor.com - Educational Policy Issues
Essays about teaching and the politics of running schools.
http://www.lessontutor.com/policyissues.html
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Christian Science Monitor - Learning
News feed of the newspaper's weekly coverage of education topics.
http://www.csmonitor.com/rss/learning.rss
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NPR Talk of the Nation : Intellectuals on Campus
Join host Neal Conan for a discussion about intellectualism on campus. [32:31 streaming audio broadcast]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1182223
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Our Nation's Kids: Is Something Wrong?
A report on people's thinking in national issues forums. This report describes what happened as people deliberated about issues related to our nation's kids: the values they drew on, the considerations they took into account, the costs and consequences
http://www.nifi.org/reports/detail_issues.aspx?itemID=301&catID=17
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NPR : Hearing Voices: High School's 'Quiet Kids'
Producer Hilary Frank of the Hearing Voices radio project presents the voices of some quiet kids, teenagers, who feel isolated from the cultural life of their high schools. The story originally aired on member station WBEZ's Chicago Matters. [4:07 strea
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4557214
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