About IDE | Activities | Database | Schools | IDEC | Links | Forums Links Educational Innovation ATLAS communities: The Schools of the Future Today ATLAS Communities is a comprehensive school improvement initiative designed to help create high performing schools that serve all students well. Center on Reinventing Public Education The 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. Coalition of Essential Schools The mission of the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) is to transform American public education so that every child in every neighborhood, regardless of race or class, attends a small, vibrant, intellectually challenging, personalized school. DesignShare, The International Forum for Innovative Schools DesignShare is the central address for the very best in educational facilities and their impact on the learning process. DesignShare provides an invaluable service as a facilitator of ideas and resources about best practices and innovation in schools from early childhood through the university level. Great Ideas in Education Great Ideas in Education is the joint website of Holistic Education Press, Psychology Press, and the publishing division of the Foundation for Educational Renewal. Harmony School Education Center Human Scale Education Human Scale Education is an educational charity promoting small schools and small classes because of the many educational benefits which small size can bring LIB ED - For the liberation of learning For over thirty years, LIB ED has been actively promoting freedom in education by organising meetings, conferences and other e vents, by publishing books, pamphlets and magazines. NCACS - The National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools Our mission is to unite and organize a grassroots movement of learners and learning communities dedicated to participant control, liberation from all forms of oppression, and the pursuit of freedom. New Horizons for Learning Since 1980, New Horizons for Learning has served as a leading-edge resource for educational change. We have identified, communicated, and helped to implement successful educational strategies through: New Horizons' Online Journal, Books and other written materials, Networking people and organizations, Eight landmark international conferences. North Central Regional Educational Laboratory The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping schools—and the students they serve—reach their full potential. We specialize in the educational applications of technology. Phi Delta Kappan Phi Delta Kappan, the professional print journal for education, addresses policy issues for educators at all levels. Advocating research-based school reform, the Kappan provides a forum for debate on controversial subjects. Published since 1915, the journal appears monthly September through June. Rethinking Schools Online Rethinking Schools began as a local effort to address problems such as basal readers, standardized testing, and textbook-dominated curriculum. Since its founding in 1986, it has grown into a nationally prominent publisher of educational materials, with subscribers in all 50 states, all 10 Canadian provinces, and many other countries. Small Schools Project The Small Schools Project works with both new schools and small schools created by redesigning large comprehensive high schools into smaller, autonomous schools. The Big Picture The Big Picture Company's mission is to catalyze vital changes in American education by generating and sustaining innovative, personalized schools that work in tandem with the real world of their greater community. The Center for Futurism in Education The Center for Futurism in Education at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev was established by the Israeli Ministry of Education and the Ben-Gurion University in order to advance and foster paradigmatic changes in the Israeli education system. Guiding the Center's activities is the understanding that: a. Current educational paradigms cannot provide answers to the challenges posed by the recent rapid transition to a post-industrial (or post-modern) information society and those serious answers to these challenges require the readiness to try out radically new educational paradigms. b. The new suggested educational paradigms, processes, models and curricula should be based on macro-strategic thinking. Such thinking should rely on one hand on the understanding of the implications of the post-industrial information revolutions for education and on the other hand on a coherent, operationalizable set of humanistic values. The Creative Learning Exchange The Creative Learning Exchange encourages a view of education for primary and secondary schools based on discovery as the essence of the learning process and advocates systems education implemented through learner-centered learning. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook Project Schools may be the starkest example in modern society of an entire institution modeled after the assembly line. This has dramatically increased educational capability in our time, but it has also created many of the most intractable problems with which students, teachers, and parents struggle to this day. If we want to change schools, it is unlikely to happen until we understand more deeply the core assumptions on which the industrial-age school is based. The Learning Revolution IN CONTEXT - A Quarterly Of Humane Sustainable Culture. Issue #27 - The Learning Revolution: Education Innovations for Global Citizens. Links | Home