Research Centers and General Education Sites:

Brookings Institution's Brown Center (centrist)

A nonpartisan research center focusing on K-12 education http://www.brookings.edu/browncenter

Heritage Foundation (conservative)

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/index.cfm

Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (conservative)
http://www.edexcellence.net

Hoover Institution (conservative)

http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/research/k-12initiative/k-12initiative.html

People for the American Way (liberal)

http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=12

National Education Association (liberal)

http://www.nea.org

Progressive Policy Institute's 21st Century Schools Project (liberal-centrist; New Democrat) http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ka.cfm?knlgAreaID=110

Center for Education Reform
Organization that acts as a clearinghouse on school choice, charter schools and other reforms.
http://www.edreform.com

Center for Education Policy

http://www.ctredpol.org/

Citizens for Educational Freedom
Advocacy group that favors tuition vouchers and tax credits for students in private schools.
http://www.educational-freedom.org

National Center for Education Statistics
Gathers and disseminates statistics on education in the United States .
http://nces.ed.gov

Public Agenda

http:/www.publicagenda.org

US Dept of Education

www.ed.gov

Consortium for Policy Research in Education

http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cpre

Phi Delta Kappa
http://www.pdkintl.org

Center for Civic Education

http://www.civiced.org

National Library of Education

http://www.ed.gov/NLE/index.html

Edison Schools

http://www.edisonproject.com/home/home.cfm

Harvard Program on Education Policy Governance (PEPG)

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/pepg/index.htm

No Child Left Behind Act

http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml

Black Alliance for Educational Options

http://www.baeo.org

Citizen's Commission on Civil Rights

http://www.cccr.org/

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (focuses on African-American issues)

http://www.jointcenter.org/DB/detail/edu.htm

Education Journal and Newspaper Archives:

Teachers College Record

www.tcrecord.org

Education Next

http://www.educationnext.org/

Education Week

www.edweek.org

Education Policy Analysis archives

http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/

Policy File

http://www.policyfile.com/

Education Reform by BusinessWeek

Unions and Associations:

National Education Association
http://www.nea.org

American Federation of Teachers
http://www.aft.org

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
http://www.ascd.org

Council of the Great City Schools

http://www.cgcs.org

Council for Basic Education
Advocacy group that works to promote high standards in grades K-12.

http://www.c-b-e.org

Council of Chief State School Officers
http://www.ccsso.org

Education Commission of the States
Commission that researches and surveys all phases of state education policy.

http://www.ecs.org

Home School Legal Defense Association
Advocacy group that defends the right of parents to direct the education of their children. http://www.hslda.org

National Assessment Governing Board
Sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test and is developing voluntary national math and reading tests

www.naep.org

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Association that works for equal opportunity for minorities in all areas, including education.
http://www.naacp.org

National Association of State Boards of Education
Association of state education boards
http://www.nasbe.org

National School Boards Association
Association of local school boards.
http://www.nsba.org

Public Opinion Organizations:

Gallup Organization, http://www.gallup.com

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu