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Organizations

National Council for History Education
A leader in the development and implementation of professional development programs for teachers across the United States. Our model combining the talents and skills of a historian, education specialist and master teacher provides teachers with a rich blend of historical content and pedagogy that can be translated back into the classroom.
National Council of Teachers of English
Devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The world’s largest mathematics education organization, with 80,000 members and more than 230 Affiliates throughout the United States and Canada.
National Science Teachers Association
The largest organization in the world committed to promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all.

Web Resources

Lady Bird Johnson visits a 1966 Project Head Start classroom. Image Source

Alliance for Excellent Education
A Washington, DC–based national policy and advocacy organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, particularly those who are traditionally underserved, graduate from high school ready for success in college, work, and citizenship
American Association of University Women
Advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy, and research.
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is the nation’s leading voice promoting equity and education for women and girls.
National Association for Multicultural Education
Founded in 1990, NAME has become the premier national and international organization that is committed to issues of equity, inclusion, diversity, and justice in schooling.
National Center for Education Statistics
The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.
National Parent Teacher Association
Comprises millions of families, students, teachers, administrators, and business and community leaders devoted to the educational success of children and the promotion of parent involvement in schools.
Ohio Department of Education
Oversees the state’s public education system, which includes public school districts, joint vocational school districts and charter schools. The department also monitors educational service centers, other regional education providers, early learning and childcare programs, and private schools.
United States Department of Education
ED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access.
Pew Research Center: Education
View Education reports and articles at the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan fact tank that conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research.
Times Educational Supplement
News page of one of the world's leading education industry publications. From the Times of London.
Inside Higher Ed
Online news in higher education.

School: The Story of American Public Education

Meryl Streep narrates this 2001 series on the history of American public schools dating to 1770.

▶ Borrow the DVD series from the CSCC Library

Part 1: The Common School, 1770-1890

Part 2: As American as Public School, 1900-1950

Part 3: A Struggle for Educational Equality, 1950-1980

Part 4: The Bottom Line in Education, 1980-

Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes

Watch a documentary, A Class Divided, on Jane Elliott's controversial 1968 classroom experiment designed to educate her third-grade students about discrimination. The experiment was conducted the day after Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.

▶ View streaming on PBS.org

▶ View on videotape at the CSCC Library

A Class Divided: Then and Now: Producer of the documentary, William Peters, interviewed 11 of the 16 students in Jane Elliott's 3rd grade class during a reunion with their former teacher in 1984.