| Title |
Description (Policy - P, Technology
- T, Reform - R) |
| Achieve |
Helps states prepare all young people for
postsecondary education, work and citizenship by raising academic
standards and achievement in America's schools. (R) |
| Alliance for Excellent Education |
The mission of the Alliance for Excellent Education is to
make it possible for America's six million, at-risk middle and
high school students to achieve high standards and graduate
prepared for college and success in life. (R) |
| American Association
of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) |
Works to provide services to help schools,
colleges, and departments of education effectively prepare teachers.
(R) |
| American Educational Research Association |
The American Educational Research Association (AERA), founded
in 1916, is concerned with improving the educational process
by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by
promoting the dissemination and practical application of research
results. |
| Association for Computing Machinery |
ACM delivers resources that advance computing as a science
and a profession. ACM provides the computing field’s
premier Digital Library and serves its members and the computing
profession with leading-edge publications, conferences, and
career resources. |
| Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education |
The Association (founded in 1981) is an international, educational
and professional not-for profit organization dedicated to the
advancement of the knowledge, theory, and quality of learning
and teaching at all levels with information technology.(AACE) |
| Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development |
ASCD, a community of educators, advocating sound policies
and sharing best practices to achieve the success of each learner. |
| The Association
for the Study of Play |
TASP is a multidisciplinary organization whose purpose is
to promote the study of play, to support and cooperate with
other organizations having similar purposes, and to organize
meetings and publications that facilitate the sharing and dissemination
of information related to the study of play |
| The Broad Foundation
|
The Broad Foundation's mission is to dramatically improve
K-12 urban public education through better governance, management
and labor relations. (R,P) |
| The
Brookings Institution Brown Center on Education Policy |
The Brown Center on Education Policy conducts
research on topics in American education, focusing on efforts
to improve academic achievement in elementary and secondary
schools. (R, P) |
| Campus
Technology |
Monthly publication focusing exclusively
on the use of technology across all areas of higher education |
| The Annie E. Casey Foundation
|
(AECF) has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged
children and their families in the United States. The primary
mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human
service reforms, and community supports that more effectively
meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.
(R, P) |
| Center for Applied
Special Technology |
With Universal Design for Learning (UDL) as
a blueprint, CAST researches and develops educational strategies
and tools that integrate new brain research and multimedia technologies
with effective teaching practices. |
| Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology |
CARET is a project of the International Society for Technology
in Education in partnership with Educational Support Systems. |
| Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence |
CREDE is a federally funded research and development program
focused on improving the education of students whose ability
to reach their potential is challenged by language or cultural
barriers, race, geographic location, or poverty. |
| Center
for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO)
|
CRITO exists to foster research into the relationship
between information technology and organizations, and to disseminate
the results of this research through teaching, publication,
and exchange with scholarly and professional communities. |
| Center
for School Change |
The Center for School Change is a program
of the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University
of Minnesota. The Center works with educators, parents, business
people, students, policy-makers and other concerned people throughout
the United States (R, P) |
| Center on Reinventing Public
Education |
University of Washington: studies major issues in education
reform and governance in order to improve policy and decision-making
in K-12 education.(R, P) |
| Charter
School Leadership Council |
Formed to enable the national organizations
committed to advancing the charter school movement to collaborate,
coordinate their efforts, and, when possible, produce a united
voice for the charter school movement. (R) |
| Council of Chief State School
Officers (CCSSO) |
Provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on
major educational issues (R, P) |
| Education
Commission of the States |
Helping State Leaders Shape Education Policy
(R, P) |
| Educational
Transformation through Technology at MIT |
As MIT develops and adapts technology—and
applies it to education—the daily experience of students
at MIT and around the world is transformed. The fruits of this
effort are maturing from mere promise to broad and sustainable
impact. At MIT we are becoming the change we want we want to
see in the world.
Through case studies and a sampling of MIT educational
technology projects in the Project Gallery, this site
presents a snapshot of MIT's education technology development
from 1999–2005.
|
| The Education Trust |
Established by the American Association for Higher Education
as a special project to encourage colleges and universities
to support K-12 reform efforts. Since then, The Ed Trust has
grown into an independent nonprofit organization whose mission
is to make schools and colleges work for all of the young people
they serve. (R, P) |
| EdTechLeaders website |
ETLO programs include graduate level training
courses for online instructors and course designers and a catalog
of online workshops focused on specific subject areas and grade
levels. |
| The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
Bringing innovations in health and learning
to the global community (R) |
| Horizon Wimba |
The Horizon Wimba Desktop Lecture Series is a free, online
presentation series that brings experts from the education
and technology industries LIVE to the desktops of people throughout
the world |
| Institute for Higher Education
Policy |
Foster access and success in postsecondary education through
public policy research and other activities that inform and
influence the policymaking process (R, P) |
| International Society for Technology in Education |
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®)
is a nonprofit professional organization with a worldwide membership
of leaders and potential leaders in educational technology. |
| Interstate
New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) |
A consortium of state education agencies and
national educational organizations dedicated to the reform of
the preparation, licensing, and on-going professional development
of teachers. |
| Kaiser Foundation
|
The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private
operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues
facing the nation. The Foundation is aan independent voice and
source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the
health care community, and the general public. (R,P,T) |
| Learning Point Associates |
Research, Policy and development conducted by the North Central
Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL®)
(R,P) |
| MICCA
|
MICCA is dedicated to providing leadership
for advancing meaningful uses of technology in the educational
communities of Maryland (T) |
| The Milken Institute |
A publicly supported independent think tank (R, P, T) |
| National
Association of Charter School Authorizers |
(NACSA) is a nonprofit membership association
of educational agencies across the country that authorize and
oversee charter public schools (R) |
| National Center for Academic Transformation |
http://www.thencat.org/ |
| National
Center on Education and the Economy |
The National Center on Education and the Economy is dedicated
to providing the tools and technical assistance the nation needs
to lead the world in education and training. (R) |
| National
Council on Teacher Quality |
The National Council on Teacher Quality advocates
for reforms in a broad range of teacher policies at the federal,
state, and local levels, including raising the standards for
entry into the profession while also eliminating obstacles that
keep many talented individuals from considering a career in
teaching. (R, P) |
| National Governors Association |
The National Governors Association (NGA) is the collective
voice of the nation's governors and one of Washington, D.C.'s,
most respected public policy organizations. (R, P) |
| National Education
Knowledge Industry Association - NEKIA |
NEKIA's mission is to advance the development
and use of research-based knowledge for the improvement the
academic performance of all children. (R) |
| New Leaders for New Schools |
Fosters high academic achievement for every child by attracting,
preparing, and supporting the next generation of outstanding
school leaders for our nation's urban public schools. New Leaders
for New Schools is a national non-profit organization that aggressively
recruits extremely talented people to become urban school principals.
(R) |
| New Schools
Venture Fund |
NewSchools Venture Fund™ is a venture
philanthropy firm working to transform public education through
powerful ideas and passionate entrepreneurs so that all children
– especially those underserved – have the opportunity
to succeed in the 21st century. (R) |
| Public
Impact |
Education policy and management consulting firm committed
to furthering initiatives that have a direct and significant
impact on education for all children. (R, P) |
| Society for the History
of Technology |
The Society for the History of Technology was formed in 1958
to encourage the study of the development of technology and
its relations with society and culture. |
| Standards
Work |
Locally-customized products and services help
communities develop standards and assessments that everyone
believes in, is willing to work for, and feels they own (R) |
| Teach
for America |
Building the movement to eliminate educational
inequity in this country. (R) |
| Teaching,
Learning & Computing Research Group |
|
| The Teaching
Commission |
Seeks to raise student performance by transforming the way
in which America’s public school teachers are recruited
and retained. (R) |
| Sivasailam "Thiagi" Thiagarajan |
Games for training |
| Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education |
The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
is an international association of individual teacher educators,
and affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all disciplines,
who are interested in the creation and dissemination of knowledge
about the use of information technology in teacher education
and faculty/staff development |
| Thomas
B. Fordham Foundation |
Seeks to advance understanding and acceptance of effective
reform strategies (R, P) |
| Trust for Early
Education |
Provide a strong advocacy voice for high quality, voluntary
pre-K for all three and four-year olds (R, P) |
| The
Urban Institute |
The Urban Institute measures effects, compares options, shows
which stakeholders get the most and least, tests conventional
wisdom, reveals trends, and makes costs, benefits, and risks
explicit (R, P) |
| WestEd
|
Nonprofit research, development, and service agency, strives
to enhance and increase education and human development within
schools, families, and communities (R, P) |
