LINGUISTIC MINORITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Organizations

• Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development (CEECD) » Public Health Agency of Canada site. In English and in French. For service providers, planners and policymakers to thoroughly understand the significance of early childhood to ensure that young children's social and emotional needs are fulfilled. (posted Oct. 16, 2006)
• English-speaking section Foreign Language Teachers United (EFLTU) » Goals include: network foreign language teachers by providing a platform where they can voice their ideas, opinions and concerns; improve the pay and conditions of foreign language teachers; and support colleagues teaching other languages.
• Innocenti Research Centre » UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) works to strengthen the capacity of UNICEF and its cooperating institutions to respond to the evolving needs of children and to develop a new global ethic for children
• Lingva Prismo » A web site for and about languages. Currently available in nine languages. Contains quizzes, maps, history, audio clips and links to other interesting sites about languages.
• The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) » is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide, providing analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels.
• The National Centre for Languages (CILT)» The organisation's mission is to promote a greater capability in languages; seeks to support and develop multilingualism and intercultural competence among all sectors of the population in the UK. (posted 11/20/06)

U.S. Department of Education

• -- ED/Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
• --Encyclopedia of Education Stats (The Dept. of Education)
• --National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE)
• --National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board
• --National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
• --No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
  • -- Title III--Langauge Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students
• -- The Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students(OELA)(formerly OBEMLA)
• --Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI)
• --Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII): makes strategic investments in innovative educational practices through two dozen discretionary grant programs and coordinates the public school choice and supplemental educational services provisions of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as amended by No Child Left Behind.

Federally-Funded Research Centers

• Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE), UC Santa Cruz
  (*formerly National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning (NCRCDSLL) - click here for information)
• Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, & Student Testing (CRESST) , UC Los Angeles
• Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR) , Johns Hopkins U
• The National Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners (CREATE) » A research program funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education designed to address the critical challenge of improving educational outcomes of English-language learners (ELLs)
• Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE)
• Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) » ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
• Language Policy Research Unit , Arizona State University
• National Center on Adult Literacy (NCAL), U of Pennsylvania
• National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL)
• National Center for Early Development and Learning , Operated by The FPG Child Development Center, UNC-Chapel Hill in collaboration with The University of Virginia & UCLA
• World-class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) Consortium » the WIDA Consortium consists of twelve partner states: Alabama, Delaware, the District of Columbia Public Schools, Georgia, Illinois, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maine, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin dedicated to the design and implementation of high standards and equitable educational opportunities for English language learners.

Federally-Funded Clearinghouse and Assistance Centers

• betterhighschools.org » (National High School Center). Serves as a central source of information and expertise on high school-related issues for all students, with a special focus on students with disabilities, students with limited proficiency in English, and students at risk of school failure. (posted 12/1/06)
• The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
• National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt)
• National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA)

Federally-Funded Regional Laboratory Networks

• Regional Education Laboratories (REL) Network » The network of 10 Regional Educational Laboratories, serving geographic regions that span the nation, works to ensure that those involved in educational improvement at the local, state, and regional levels have access to the best available information from research and practice. This Web site is one of many ways that the network reaches out to make that information accessible.
• Appalachia Educational Laboratory at Edvantia (formerly AEL) » Edvantia works in the four-state region of Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia to build the capacity of low-performing schools to become high-performing learning communities, and to document the transformation processes and impacts for possible application in other locations and contexts.
• Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) » Produces the world's premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free.
• Laboratory for Student Success (Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory) » The overarching goal of the LSS is to strengthen the capacity of the Mid-Atlantic Region-which includes Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC-to enact and sustain lasting systemic educational reform through collaborative programs of applied research and development and services to the field.
• Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) » Serving as the Regional Educational Laboratory for the states of Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
• North Central Regional Educational Laboratory » Dedicated to providing high-quality, research-based resources to educators and policymakers in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
• Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory » Provides research and development assistance to education, government, community agencies, business, and labor. NWREL's primary service area is the Northwest states of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.
• Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University (LAB at Brown) » Promotes educational change to provide all students equitable opportunities to succeed. We advocate for populations whose access to excellent education has been limited or denied. Serving as the Regional Educational Laboratory for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands
• Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) » An independent, nonprofit corporation that serves the educational community in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands, the continental United States, and countries throughout the world. Serving as the Regional Educational Laboratory for American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Hawaii, Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau
• SouthEastern Regional Vision for Education (SERVE) » SERVE Center for Continuous Improvement at UNCG is an education organization with the mission to promote and support the continuous improvement of educational opportunities for all learners in the Southeast. Serving as Regional Education Laboratory for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina
• Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) » A private, nonprofit education research, development, and dissemination (RD&D) corporation based in Austin, TX. Serving as the Regional Education Laboratory for Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas
• WestEd » A nonprofit research, development, and service agency serving as the Regional Educational Laboratory for Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah

Other Federal Government

• US Census Bureau Home Page
• Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (ChildStats.gov)

Research Centers

• Abt Associates, Inc.
• American Institutes for Research (AIR) » One of the largest behavioral and social science research organizations in the world. Overriding goal is to use the best science available to bring the most effective ideas and approaches to enhancing everyday life.
• Annenberg Institute for School Reform (Brown University, RI)
• Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA)
• Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL)
• Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education (CSCSE) at Teachers College, Columbia University » Conducts research on the benefits and costs of alternative educational policies and interventions.(posted 3/19/07)
• The Center for Education (CFE) » promotes evidence-based policy analysis that can help to improve education for all Americans. Formed in 1999 as the locus for education activities in the National Academies.
• SRI International's Center for Education Policy » conducts research and evaluations on the design, implementation, and impact of a variety of educational programs, especially improvement efforts targeted on traditionally underrepresented students.
• The Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP) » Located at The University of Memphis. The Center's mission is to implement a research agenda associated with educational policies and practices in preK-12 public schools and to provide a knowledge base for use by educational practitioners and policymakers. Research outcomes are intended to not only describe the complexities of educational phenomena but also offer recommendations for action.
• Center for Social Organization of Schools » An educational research and development center at Johns Hopkins University
• USC Rossier School of Education's Center on Educational Governance (CEG) » Focuses on the linkages between policy, educational governance, and the improvement of urban schools and systems. (posted Oct. 16, 2006)
• Center on Reinventing Public Education » Studies major issues in education reform and governance in order to improve policy and decision-making in K-12 education.(posted 4/12/07)
• Child Trends » nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect children and their families
• Community College Research Center (CCRC)» Leading independent authority on the nation's more than 1,200 two-year colleges. Mission is to conduct research on the major issues affecting community colleges in the United States and to contribute to the development of practice and policy that expands access to higher education and ensures success for all students. (posted 4/11/07)
• Education Policy Studies Laboratory (EPSL) - Language Policy Research Unit (LPRU)- (Arizona State University)
• Education Testing Service (ETS)
• ETS Policy Information Center Home Page
• The Evaluation Assistance Center East
• FPG Child Development Institute » (at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) One of the nation's largest multidisciplinary centers for studying young children and their families. Among FPG's many achievements is the Abecedarian Project. Findings from this longitudinal study are frequently cited by experts and policymakers when discussing the importance of quality early childcare.(posted 4/12/07)
• Harvard Civil Rights Project
• Human Languages Page
• Human Services Policy Center » Pairs applied analytic research with the promotion of policies that improve the lives of children, families, and communities, with special attention to the needs of those who are disadvantaged. (posted March 16, 2007)
• Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA)
• Julian Samora Research Institute
• Migration Policy Institute (MPI) » Founded in 2001. Independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to the study of the movement of people worldwide. Provides analysis, development, and evaluation of migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels.(posted Oct. 16, 2006)
• MDRC
• National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) » Federally funded National Research and Development Center. CALDER capitalizes upon longitudinal individual-level student and teacher data across a number of states, to investigate how state and local policies, especially teacher policies, governance policies, and accountability policies affect teachers (e.g., who teaches what students) and students (e.g., academic achievement and attainment).(posted 4/12/07)
• National Center for Children in Poverty (Columbia University)
• National Center for Early Development and Learning » NCEDL focuses on enhancing the cognitive, social, and emotional development of children from birth through age eight.
• National Center on Performance Incentives » conducts scientific, comprehensive research on the effects of performance incentives in education.
• The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
• National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCELA) - formerly National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education (NCBE)
• National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) » Supports early childhood education initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on research.
• The National Research Center on English Learning and Achievement (University of Albany)
• The Pew Hispanic Center (University of Southern California)
• Population Council » An international, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that conducts biomedical, social science, and public health research. (posted Oct. 16, 2006)
• RAND
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC) » Independent, non-profit organization. Brings together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers throughout the world. Encourages innovation, builds research capacity, and helps social scientists engage broader constituencies.
• SRI
• The Tomas Rivera Center
• Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) » One of the oldest, largest, and most productive education research centers in the world. A part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Education.

Organizations (Advocacy, Leadership, Research)

• Achieve
• Alliance for Excellent Education
• America's Promise (The Alliance for Youth) » Our goal for the next five years is to change the lives of 15 million underserved young people through the power of the Five Promises: caring adults, safe places, a healthy start, effective education and opportunities to help others. (posted Dec. 20, 2006)
• American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) » Professional organization of scholars interested in and actively contributing to the multi-disciplinary field of applied linguistics.
• American Council on Education
• Annenberg Institute for School Reform » A standards-based and practice-centered policy-research and technical-assistance organization with an emphasis on promoting quality education for disadvantaged children and communities. (An independent center at Brown University.)
• The Aspen Institute » The mission of the Aspen Institute is to foster enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue. Through seminars, policy programs, conferences and leadership development initiatives, the Institute and its international partners seek to promote nonpartisan inquiry and an appreciation for timeless values.
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
• Campaign for Children's Healthcare » Dedicated to making high-quality, affordable health insurance coverage for all of America's children a top national priority. Consists of organizations representing health care providers, educators, parents, advocates, and others. The Campaign coordinates public education efforts across the country to demonstrate the importance of health insurance for children and families and to show why national action is needed to expand coverage for children.
• The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement » Mission is to assist schools and districts engaged in comprehensive school reform and improvement by providing reliable information about research-based strategies and assistance. The Center's database contains over 4,500 abstracts, reports, and other information related to school reform and improvement; over 200 items have been added in 2005.
• The Center for Public Education » National resource for accurate, timely, and credible information about public education and its importance to the well-being of our nation. The Center provides up-to-date research, data, and analysis on current education issues and explores ways to improve student achievement and engage public support for public schools.(posted 4/12/07)
• Children Now
• Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy » non-profit, non-partisan organization, sponsored by the Council for Excellence in Government, with the mission to promote government policymaking based on rigorous evidence of program effectiveness. (posted 4/11/07)
• Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center (CSRQ)
• Consortium for Language Policy and Planning (CLPP)
• Council for Great City Schools
• Council of Chief State School Officers
• The Education Alliance at Brown University
• Data Quality Campaign » Mission is to provide support for and advocacy on behalf of organizations that create, collect, and use education data in an effort to improve student achievement. (posted Dec. 20, 2006)
• Education Schools Project » Provides a critical assessment of the ways in which the nation's 1,200 schools of education prepare-and should prepare-teachers, school administrators, and education researchers. (posted Oct. 16, 2006)
• Education Sector » An independent education think tank. Nonprofit and nonpartisan, producing original research and policy analysis and promoting outstanding work by the nation's most respected education analysts.
• Education Trust
• Edutopia » (The George Lucas Educational Foundation) Featuring detailed articles, in-depth case studies, research summaries, instructional modules, short documentary segments, expert interviews, and links to relevant resources. (posted 2/13/07)
• The Finance Project
• Thomas B. Fordham Institute » Nationally and in its home state of Ohio, striving to narrow America's achievement gaps by raising standards, strengthening accountability, and expanding education options for parents and families. (posted 8/1/07)
• The Forum for Youth Investment
• Foundation for Child Development (FCD)
• Institute for Language and Education Policy » Nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting research-based policies in serving English and heritage language learners (posted March 16, 2007)
• Institute for Research and Reform in Education (IRRE) » Best known as the developer of First Things First, a reform framework currently at work in nine districts with 70 schools. IRRE also provides consultation to state education officials, foundations and other education professionals. (posted Dec. 20, 2006)
• Issue Lab » Wide-ranging, searchable and browseable archive of critical publications. It simplifies the process of locating and accessing research and policy analysis materials, including reports, white papers, fact sheets, case studies, data sets and more.
• National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies » Academic organization that serves academic programs, departments and research centers that focus on issues pertaining to Mexican Americans, Chicana/os, and Latina/os
• National Center for Educational Accountability » Created in 2001. Mission is to promote higher student achievement by: Improving state data collection; Using data to improve schools; Conducting research on school improvement issues; Identifying the practices that distinguish consistently high-performing schools from other schools. (posted Oct. 16, 2006)
• National Center on Education and the Economy » NCEE is committed not just to research, analysis and advocacy, but also to following through on its recommendations by creating the training, professional development, technical assistance and materials that professionals in the system need to implement the proposals we make.(posted Dec. 20, 2006)
• National Commission on Teaching and America' s Future
• National Council for La Raza
• National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) » Advocates for reforms in a broad range of teacher policies at the federal, state, and local levels, including raising the standards for entry into the profession while also eliminating obstacles that keep many talented individuals from considering a career in teaching.
• National Organization for the Education of Young Children
• National School Boards Association » The nationwide organization representing public school governance. (posted Oct. 16, 2006)
• New America Foundation » Launched in 1999. Nonprofit, post-partisan, public policy institute established through the collaborative work of public intellectuals, civic leaders and business executives. The Foundation sponsors a wide range of research, writing, conferences and public outreach on global and domestic issues. (posted Oct. 16, 2006)
• New America Media » Founded in 1996. National collaboration of ethnic news organizations (posted Oct. 16, 2006)
• New Teacher Center » at the University of California, Santa Cruz
  National resource focused on teacher and administrator induction. Mission is to "improve student learning by supporting the development of an inspired, dedicated and highly qualified teaching force." (posted June 7, 2007)
• Northwest Evaluation Association (NWEA)
• The Partnership for 21st Century Skills » To bring 21st Century Skills to every child in America by serving as a catalyst for change in teaching, learning, and assessment and as an advocate among education policy makers through a unique partnership among education, business, and government leaders.
• Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) » Civil rights policy organization whose primary mission is to help connect social scientists with advocates working on race and poverty issues, and to promote a research-based advocacy strategy on issues of structural racial inequality. (posted Nov. 13, 2006)
• Public Agenda » Nonpartisan and nonprofit, Public Agenda's two-fold mission is to help American leaders better understand the public's point of view, and citizens know more about critical policy issues so they can make thoughtful, informed decisions.
• READ: The Institute for Research in English Acquisition and Development
• REFORMA » An affiliate of the American Library Association (ALA), REFORMA promotes the development of library collections to include Spanish-language and Latino oriented materials.
• The Rural School and Community Trust
• Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) » To encourage Chicano/Latino and Native American students to pursue graduate education and obtain the advanced degrees necessary for science research, leadership, and teaching careers at all levels. (posted Oct. 16, 2006)
• Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) » The purpose of SSSR is to promote the scientific study of reading and to disseminate information about reading and related areas such as language and literacy.
• Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL)
  • · SEDL National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools
• The New Teacher Project (TNTP) » National non-profit organization that partners with educational entities to increase the number of outstanding individuals who become public school teachers and create environments for all educators that maximize their impact on student achievement.
• The Warren Institute » The Chief Justice Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity (Warren Institute) is a multidisciplinary, collaborative venture to produce research, research-based policy prescriptions, and curricular innovation on issues of racial and ethnic justice in California and the nation.
• Youth Development Strategies, Inc. (YDSI)

Professional Associations

• American Association of School Administrators
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)

• AERA Grants Program
• AERA Special Interest Group (AERA SIG) Communication of Research - index of online educational research journals

• Int'l Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)
• National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)
• National Association For Multicultural Education (NAME)
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)
• National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES)
• The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) » To advance teaching, research, and student achievement in English language arts at all scholastic levels. (posted Oct. 16, 2006)
• Public Education Network (PEN)
• Sociology of Education Association (SEA)
• Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL)

Media

• Education Week on the Web

Other

• ReadbyGrade3.com

1. California Department of Education
• -- California Dept of Education Fact Book 2002 - Handbook of Education Information
• -- Education Conference Calendar
• -- Educational Demographics Office
• -- Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program
• -- California STAR State Summary Report 1999
• --California STAR State Summary Report 2000
• --SABE/2 STAR State Summary Report 2000

Other

1. DataQuest
2. Ed-Data Website
3. Every Child Prepared: Governor's Committee on Education Excellence » Non-partisan, privately funded group charged with examining K-12 education in California and recommending steps to improve the performance of public schools. (posted Dec. 20, 2006)

Other State Government

1. California Commission on Teacher Credentialing
2. Every Child Prepared: California Committee on Education Excellence »

Research Centers

1. The California Higher Education Policy Center
2. California School Finance » (hosted by EdSource) This website can help make sense of our complex school finance system: the Finance System section explains how the system is structured, current funding, revenue sources, and how those funds are allocated and spent. You can also learn about the state's revenue limit system, facilities funding and charter schools, as well as the court cases, laws, and policies that created this system. (posted 2/26/07)
3. Center for Continuing Study of the California Economy
4. Center for the Future of Teaching & Learning
5. Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research-USC
6. CSR Research Consortium
7. EdSource
8. Institute for Education Reform
9. Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)
10. Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)

The University of California:

1. California Policy Research Center UC Office of the President
2. Center for Chicano Studies UC Santa Barbara
3. The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
4. Center for Latino Policy Research, UC Berkeley
5. Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, & Student Testing (CRESST), UC Los Angeles
6. Center for Research in Educational Equity and Teaching Excellence(CREATE), UC San Diego 
7. César E. Chávez Center in Chicana and Chicano Studies UCLA
8. Chicano/Latino Net UC Los Angeles & UC Riverside
9. Chicano Studies Research Center UCLA
10. Committee on Latino Research, UC Los Angeles
11. UC All Campus Consortium On Research for Diversity (ACCORD) UC Los Angeles
12. UC Consortium for Language Learning and Teaching
13. UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA)
14.    --Teaching to Change LA
15. UC MEXUS—The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States
16. UC Subject A Exam Results (UC Office of The President)

Other California Colleges/Universities

• CSU Analytic Studies: CA High School and Community College Academic Performance Reports(Cal State)
• Center for the Advancement of Reading(Cal State)

Professional Associations & Organizations

• California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)
• California Association for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL)
• California School Boards Association (CSBA)
• California School Finance hosted by EdSource » In the coming years, we expect the public debate around school funding to intensify. To help inform that debate, this website will address the full compendium of questions related to school finance in California, and do so in a way that is accurate and clear, unbiased and balanced. (posted 11/20/06)
• California Teachers Association (CTA)
• California Tomorrow
• The Campaign for College Opportunity » a nonprofit organization solely devoted to ensuring that the next generation of college-age students in California has the chance to go to college as promised by the state 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education.
• Child Development Policy Institute (CDPI)

Media

• Los Angeles Times
• Sacramento Bee
• Stateline.org (funded by Pew Charitable Trust): online news gathering site providing timely tips and research material on state policy innovations and trends nourishing public debate of important state-level issues.

School Information

• Great Schools.Net

Arizona

• The Arizona Minority Education Policy Analysis Center (AMEPAC)

Florida

• Florida Department of Education

Hawaii

• Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL)

Illinois

• Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) » created in 1990 after the passage of the Chicago School Reform Act that decentralized governance of the city's public schools. Researchers at the University of Chicago joined with researchers from the school district and other organizations to form CCSR with the imperative to study this landmark restructuring and its long-term effects. (posted 3/19/07)
• Illinois Education Research Council (IERC) » at Southern Illinois University. Provides education research to support P-16 education policy making and program development. (posted 4/11/07)

New Mexico

• ESL/Bilingual Summer Institute

Pennsylvania

• Philadelphia: Research for Action » Philadelphia-based, non-profit organization engaged in education research and evaluation. (posted Dec. 20, 2006)

Tennessee

• Center for Research in Educational Policy

Texas

• Research and Evaluation Home Page.(TX Education Agency)

Washington,D.C.

• Directory of Two-Way Bilingual Immersion Programs (Center for Applied Linguistics)

University of California

• Riverside Ethnic Studies
• San Diego Ethnic Studies
• Santa Barbara:
  

  --California Ethnic & Multicultural Archives

  --Race and Pedagogy Project » Academic resource intended to provide teachers, students, researchers and the interested public with on-site research summaries and citations as well as bibliographies of research and teaching materials

Other Universities

• Stanford ,El Centro Chicano
• Texas A&M, Race & Ethnic Studies Institute
• UW-Whitewater, Race & Ethnic Cultures Program

Other

• National Multicultural Institute

• Bowling Green State University, American Culture Studies
• Brown University, American Civilization Department
• Colby College, American Studies
• Georgetown University, American Studies
• Indiana University, American Studies Program
• Northwestern University, American Studies
• Sewanee, The University of the South, American Studies
• University of California, Berkeley, American Studies
• University of Idaho, Program in American Studies
• University of Kansas , American Studies
• University of Michigan, Program in American Culture
• University of Mississippi , Center for the Study of Southern Culture
• University of Texas at Austin, American Studies Dept.
• University of Virginia, American Studies
• Yale University , American Studies

• California State University, Northridge ,  Asian American Studies Dept
• Pomona College, Asian Studies Program
• University of California
  • -- Los Angeles, Asian American Studies Center
  • --Santa Barbara, Asian American Studies
• Hmong Page (An "Official Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library Associatesite")

• University of California
  • --Santa Barbara, Black Studies

• Arizona State, Chicano Studies
• CSU Fullerton:
  • --Chicana/o Studies
  • --Chicano Resource Center
• Claremont Colleges-Pitzer College, Center for Intercultural and Language Education
• Moorpark College-CA, Chicano Studies
• Rutgers University, Puerto Rican & Hispanic Caribbean Studies
• Pomona College:
  • --Chicano Studies Dept.
  • -- Latin American Studies
• San Diego Mesa College Chicano Studies Department
• San Diego State University:
  • -- Latin American Studies
  • -- Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
• U of Arizona , Mexican American Studies (MASRC)
• University of California:
  • --Berkeley:
  • Dept. of Ethnic Studies/Chicano Studies
  • Chicano Studies Library
• --Davis:  Chicano Studies Program
• --Santa Barbara:  Chicano Studies Dept.
• --Irvine:   Chicano Studies
• --Santa Cruz:   Latin American & Latino Studies
• --Riverside:   Chicano Bilingual-Bicultural Studies
• U of Colorado: Dept. of Ethnic Studies, Chicano Studies
• U of Minnesota: Dept. of Chicano Studies
• U of Texas-El Paso Chicano/Latino Studies Program

• Humboldt State Native American Studies
• Montana State University Center for Native American Studies
• U of Arizona American Indian Studies Native American Resource Center
• University of California
  • --Davis, Native American Studies
  • --Los Angeles, American Indian Studies Center
• U of Oklahoma Native American Studies
• U of South Dakota Institute of Native American Studies Native American Cultural Center

Affirmative Action

• Affirmative Action & Diversity Page The Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

Documents

• CDE: Cal High School Exit Exam--Year 1 Report
• CDE: Standards and Assessment

Ebonics

• Center for Applied Linguistics—Ebonics Information Page
• Eastern Michigan University Website on Ebonics
• Ebonics: The Urban Education Debate (2nd Ed.) » This collection of papers, comments, and documents traces the distant and recent history of the Ebonics debate in the USA. The book examines how, despite increasing access to public education over the past century, schools continue to impose language standards and expectations on children that methodically privileges some, while disadvantaging others.(posted 4/12/07)

Endangered and Minority Languages

• Terralingua—Resource List on Language Endangerment, Survival & Revitalization
• UCLA Language Materials Project

Employment

• Saludos Web: Careers, Employment & Culture

Immigration

• American Civil Liberties Union (Immigrant Rights)
• Center for Immigration Studies
• INS Statistics
  • -- Immigration Statistical Information
  • -- Immigration Law and Regulations
• National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
• US Commission on Immigration Reform

Sociolinguistics

• John Rickford's Website at Stanford
• The ESL Center

• Jim Crawford, Language Policy Web Site

• Claude Goldenberg, College of Education, California State University, Long Beach

• Susan Ohanian, writer, teacher (site offers up-to-date information and inspiration on High-Stakes Standards and Testing resistance)

• Jill Kerper Mora, Ed.D. , School of Teacher Ed, San Diego State University

• Christine Rossell, Political Science Dept., Boston University

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