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	Jacobs, Joanne URL: http://www.joannejacobs.com/ ODP description: Weblog of the freelance writer and former San Jose Mercury News columnist. Page title: Joanne Jacobs Page description: Free-linking and thinking on education by Joanne Jacobs
	The Condition of Education (USA) URL: http://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/ ODP description: An integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000, 2001 and 2002. Page title: The Condition of Education
	Education Week URL: http://www.edweek.org/ ODP description: Weekly news on American education issues. Searchable archives. Page title: Education Week: News and Information About Education Issues
	The Quick and the Ed URL: http://www.quickanded.com/ ODP description: Commentary about a wide range of issues in American education.
	The Right to Education Project URL: http://www.right-to-education.org/ ODP description: A resource on the status of the right to education as outlined by the United Nations, supporting the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on education. Includes links to allied organizations. Page title: Right to Education Project: a Human Rights resource
	NPR : Homework: How Much is Too Much? URL: http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2003/mar/homework/index.html ODP description: NPR presents a multi-part series on homework -- how educators are balancing mandates to improve test scores against a chronic lack of resources and the need for children to have enough time to be children. [Four segments, each in Realaudio format.]
	Almanac of Policy Issues: Education URL: http://www.policyalmanac.org/education/index.shtml ODP description: Latest news, background information and links on U.S. elementary, secondary, and higher education issues. Page description: Comprehensive background information and links on U.S. education issues.
	Internet Sources for Higher Education Policy and Research URL: http://www.acenet.edu/resources/policy-research/ ODP description: Links to higher education policy centers (both university-based and freestanding), associations, publications, and other policy-related issues, from the American Council on Education. Page title: ACE \| Higher Education Policy Research & Topics Database
	People For the American Way - Education Issues URL: http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=12 ODP description: Issues and articles. Page title: People For the American Way - Public Education
	Moral Issues URL: http://www.hi-ho.ne.jp/taku77/ ODP description: Research articles and other essays regarding character education in the United States and Japan. Information about topics such as teenage pregnancy and school crime.
	Heritage Foundation Research: Education URL: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Education/ ODP description: Subject index of the think tank's policy papers on school choice, students' rights, charter schools, and other issues in U.S. education. Page title: The Heritage Foundation Research: Education
	Media Visions URL: http://www.media-visions.com/education.html ODP description: Articles and essays by journalist Ken Freed, covering issues related to literacy and educational technology. Page title: Media Visions - Media & Education Page description: Media journalist Ken Freed offers vital reports about new media and education.
	The Kid-Safe Network URL: http://www.kidsafenetwork.com/ ODP description: A nation-wide educational program to teach children and parents about the dangers of child molesters. Learn special methods to avoid these dangers.
	National Center on Education and the Economy URL: http://www.ncee.org/ ODP description: Policies, tools, technical assistance and professional development that people everywhere can use to design and implement effective standards-based education and training systems. Page title: NCEE
	NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Education Survey URL: http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/poll/education/education.front.html ODP description: Public approves of higher taxes for schools, but wants fairness in funding; support weak for vouchers and unclear for charter schools. Read or take the poll. Page title: School Education Survey
	Popular EducationTool Kit URL: http://www.flora.org/mike/ ODP description: Popular Education is a tool to raise people's critical awareness about the world around them, based on their personal experience. Resources and exercises using Popular Education techniques. Page title: PopEd Toolkit \| An Interactive Toolkit
	Christian Science Monitor - Learning URL: http://www.csmonitor.com/rss/learning.rss ODP description: News feed of the newspaper's weekly coverage of education topics.
	Educational Issues URL: http://www.ncpa.org/pi/edu/edu1.html ODP description: National Center for Policy Analysis whitepapers on education issues, particularly School Choice and teacher's union obstruction of Choice reforms.
	The Quick and The Ed URL: http://www.quickanded.com/atom.xml ODP description: Commentary about a wide range of issues in American education.
	NPR : Hearing Voices: High School's 'Quiet Kids' URL: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4557214 ODP description: Producer Hilary Frank of the Hearing Voices radio project presents the voices of some quiet kids, teenagers, who feel isolated from the cultural life of their high schools. The story originally aired on member station WBEZ's Chicago Matters. [4:07 streaming audio broadcast]