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Throughout the pages of Ed100, you will find links to reports and organizations that are specifically relevant to particular topics. This page is meant to help highlight some of the resources that the authors have found critical to their own understanding.
| EdSource.org | EdSource is California’s premier non-partisan, independent education policy resource. If you want to “go deep” and learn more about many of the issues described here, this is the place to look first. |
| ed-data.k12.ca.us | If you want data about a California school, district, or county, look here. The site includes basic test results, demographic information, detailed financial data and more. It also offers reports that allow you to compare schools. |
| cde.ca.gov | The web site of the California Department of Education is thick with jargon, but if you know what you are looking for it is quite useful. For instance, this is the place to go for information about grade level content standards. For raw data about tests and results, look for the part called “Dataquest.” |
| edresults.org | EdResults helps school leaders set benchmarks for progress at every grade level and in every subject area. The site is a great resource if you are trying to persuade a group of faculty or parents to raise their expectations. |
| edvoice.org | Join the mailing list of this California education policy advocacy organization and you will receive occasional emails with information about high-priority education-related legislation, especially related to charter schools. |
| greatschools.net | San Francisco-based GreatSchools.net provides well-presented summaries of school data, including schools beyond California. |
| ccsso.org | The Council of Chief State School Officers is a treasure trove of well-written documents on policy issues such as Growth Models. |
| hiddengap.org | This site, a product of Ed-Trust West, explains and quantifies the unequal distribution of funding among schools in California. |
| cftl.org | The Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning is the best California-specific source for information about policy issues related to teaching, teacher training, and teacher workforce development. |
| nces.ed.gov | The National Center for Education Statistics is the federal repository of educational data. It is a crucial resource for serious inquiry, but unapologetic about its use of education industry jargon. |
| nea.org | The web site of the National Education Association is by far the timeliest resource for state-level comparisons. Watch out, though – the data are often significantly restated when NCES data are at last released. |
| aera.net | The American Educational Research Association is a huge membership organization. Its divisions and interest groups give its members access to huge piles of new scholarship churned out each year. |
| edexcellence.net | The Fordham Foundation produces consistently articulate defenses of charter and choice-based reforms. They are also a watchdog for state content standards. Their weekly Gadfly blog highlights new developments of note. |
| toped.svefoundation.org | The leading California education policy news blog, by John Fensterwald and Kathryn Barron. |
| ChildrenNow | ChildrenNow advocates for the interests of California’s children, including health, education and media policy. Their annual report card is widely read and reported on. |
| Conditions of Education | Conditions of Education in California is a blog sponsored by Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE). PACE provides fact- and research-based policy advice for California policymakers, producing approximately one issue brief per month. |
| Education Next | Education Next is a monthly “journal of opinion and research” about education. Articles highlight new research about education issues, with an emphasis on policy. |
| School Innovations & Advocacy Cabinet | The Cabinet Report reports on K-12 education issues in California including legislation. |
