Web Links

UI  Department of Educational Policy Studies  www.ed.uiuc.edu/eps

UI  College of Education  www.ed.uiuc.edu

Illinois State Board of Education   www.isbe.state.il.us/

Illinois Learning Standards   www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/

Illinois School Report Card   www.isbe.state.il.us/research

Teachers Unions

    National Education Association   www.nea.org/

    Illinois Education Association      www.ieanea.org/

    American Federation of  Teachers   www.aft.org/

National Standards for Teacher Education

    INTASC  www.ccsso.org/intasc.html

    NCATE   www.ncate.org/

Scholarships COE for student awards program
www.ed.uiuc.edu/IPO/undergrad/  College of Education Scholarships

Web sites on education journals
www.rethinkingschools.org   Rethinking Schools:  An Urban Education Journal  
www.edweek.org  Education Week  Weekly news about the nation's schools.
www.nytimes.org  New York Times

Chicago School reform
www.consortium-chicago.org  Consortium in Chicago monitoring school reforms.
www.library.uiuc.edu/schoolreform/chicagosr.htm  News journal on Chicago school reforms.
http://www.essentialschools.org  Coalition of Essential Schools in the United States.
 

Research on small schools   http://www.smallschools.org/chicago.html  

 

Greg Michie recommends viewing this video about the teacher as hero stories "Nice White Lady"    a Mad TV spoof on movies  like Freedom Writers and Dangerous Minds.    He also recommends "Girl Like Me" (an Urban Academy student did this film about the standards of beauty in our society, she reproduced the doll experiment used in the Brown v. Board Court Case, this segment is located about 3 minutes into the film).

Film Clip on Urban Academy (3-25) 

How are state learning standards developed?  Who decides? Video on the decision making process in Virginia

nScroll down and choose Virginia: Defining History

Student Film Kansas State University   "If these walls could talk"  How would Freire respond?

Learning Standards: "Testing Our Schools" See video clips, teaching history selection.

Latino Dropout Prevention Video http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/jan-june05/dropouts_4-26.html#

Website for URBAN ACADEMY   http://www.urbanacademy.org/

RESOURCE  History of Education Timeline: http://www.cloudnet.com/%7Eedrbsass/educationhistorytimeline.html

Cartoons for teachers: http://www.borg.com/~rjgtoons/edu.html