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Hersch (Reader's Guide)Howard Gardner (from ERIC Digest)
Howard Gardner (from Education World)Dogs in Space, Chain-Smoking, and Democratic Principles (Starnes)
Furman Department of Education Information
Miami Herald Article (James)
NBPTS
Schools and Staffing Survey (NCES) (through overview)
SC Division of Teacher Quality
Teach for America
Value-Added Assessment (Sanders and Rivers)History of SC Schools (Ward)
NASSP (principals, leaders)
National Institute of Urban School Development
National Middle School Association
OCRE (Rural Education)History of Education and Childhood
School: The Story of American Public Education (PBS website)early times-1900
A Bill for the More General Diffusion of Public Knowledge (Jefferson)
Early Textbooks (U. Kansas)
Old Deluder Satan Act
Third Annual Report (Horace Mann)
1900-today
A Nation at Risk
Brown vs. Board of Education
No Child Left Behind
What Matters Most (Riley)Changing Times: Findings From the First Longitudinal Study of Later High School Start Times (Wahlstrom)
Public School Counts (NCES)Dewey- My Pedagogic Creed
Dewey- School and Society (Ch.1-4)Greenville County Schools
South Carolina Department of Education
U.S. Department of EducationResearch Synthesis: Unequal School Funding in the United States (Biddle and Berliner)
Student Diversity/ Student Learning Differences
All Kinds of Minds
Misunderstood Minds (PBS Site)Supreme Court Collection
US Supreme Court Multimedia Database*** Answers to Legal Questions
Other Articles of Interest:
High Stakes Testing (Amrein and Berliner)
Quality Counts (Education Week)
School Violence Hits Early Grades (USA Today)
Teach for America (City Journal)
Rural Districts Underfunded (Greenville News)
Year Round Schools (Greenville News)
High School Majors (Greenville News)
Teacher Retention Problem (CNN)
Special Ed Teachers Daunted By New Rules (Greenville News)
Block Schedule Scrapped (Greenville News)
School Construction Approved (Greenville News)General Sites/ Organizations:
Discovery Channel
The Learning Channel
Smithsonian
South Carolina ETV Resources
Current Issues/Current Events:
ABC News
CNN
Newsweek
US News and World Report
USA Today
