Society Issues Education Education Reform Higher Education Reform
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» A Student's-Eye View of Education's Fall and Decline 
Explores why a more innovative and progressive approach to education is held back by an institutional mindset that is threatened by, and even hostile to, revolutionary changes.
http://edutrue.tripod.com/b-files/decline.html
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» Discourse on Shamefulness 
An essay that argues for the traditional literary canon at the English Department in the University of Houston.
http://www.abortionessay.com/essay/files/Shamefulness/
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» Foundation Coalition 
An NSF-sponsored initiative funding systemic reform in undergraduate engineering education at seven schools.
http://fc1.tamu.edu/
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» Foundation for Individual Rights in Education 
"FIRE is a nonprofit educational foundation devoted to free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, the rights of conscience, legal equality, due process, and academic freedom" in American universities.
http://www.thefire.org/index.php3
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» Higher Education Act: Reauthorization Status and Issues 
A review of U.S. federal education policy, including the Higher Education Act, Pell Grants, student loans, teacher training, and distance education.
http://www.policyalmanac.org/education/archive/crs_higher_education.shtml
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» Impact of Internet on Higher Education 
Report examining major university presidents' perceptions of the impact of Internet on education & pressures that promote & inhibit.
http://members.aol.com/rebryn/
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» Pope Center for Higher Education Policy 
Conservative public policy organization publishing white papers and other reports on how to improve higher education. Global in interest, but having a special emphasis on North Carolina.
http://www.popecenter.org/
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» Re-envisioning the Ph.D. Project 
Dedicated to fostering national/international discussion and initiatives that address the question: How can we re-envision the Ph.D. to meet the societal needs of the 21st Century?
http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/
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» Student Diversity Program at Cal State Fullerton 
The SDP is designed to address the retention of "At Risk" students. Using unconventional methods of intervention, SDP has demonstrated over 90% success at California State University, Fullerton.
http://www.fullerton.edu/studentdiversity/
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» Student Loan Hell 
Biblical argument for abolishing the ban on student loan bankruptcy discharge, as well as links to other student loan information sites.
http://geocities.com/studentloanhell
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» The Futures Project 
Analysis of the role market forces play in higher education with the goal of developing and implementing thoughtful, market-oriented policy options.
http://www.futuresproject.org
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» The Irascible Professor 
Irreverent commentary on the state of education in America today, by Dr. Mark H. Shapiro and guest writers.
http://irascibleprofessor.com
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» The Learning Community Commons 
The National Learning Communities Project provides cutting-edge academic learning community work in undergraduate education across the United States.
http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu
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» The National Academy for Academic Leadership 
The academy educates academic decision makers to be leaders institutional change that improves student learning. Administrators and faculty will develop the knowledge and skills to effect systemic institutional change.
http://www.thenationalacademy.org
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» The Pew Charitable Trusts 
Reports from research grantees addressing issues in higher education reform.
http://www.pewtrusts.com/ideas/index.cfm?issue=22
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» Tuition-free MIT 
A radical proposal arguing that schools such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which have many ties to wealthy corporations, should not charge their students tuition.
http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.html
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» UEdge 
Providing case study analysis and informed opinions about higher education policy and works to assist students and the general public to understand key issues that affect them.
http://www.uedge.org
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» University Secrets: An Indictment of Higher Education 
University Secrets is the full text of a book describing higher education's failure to educate students and its exploitive transfers of funds. It criticizes grades, SATs, tracking, and housing policies.
http://universitysecrets.com/
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» University of Illinois College of Medicine Expose 
A brief expose by a former medical student of the practices which occurred at the largest medical school in the Midwest in the 1990s.
http://ourworld.cs.com/palexa39757/myhomepage/business.html
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» Vermont Campus Compact 
A higher education organization promoting greater institutional commitment to community service, service learning, and local partnerships
http://www.middlebury.edu/~vcc/
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Dieses Verzeichnis basiert auf dem Open Directory Project ergänzt und modifiziert durch informa-24.de
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