Reporting Resources

Education

U.S. Department of Education site is www.ed.gov/index.html; its Center for Rural Education, created in Dec. 2005, is at www.ed.gov/nclb/freedom/local/rural/index.html.

National Center for Education Statistics, http://nces.ed.gov, is a treasure trove of data on schools. It also offers a tool for creating simple graphics, intended for children but useful for creating charts to illustrate stories. See http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph.

Rural School and Community Trust, http://www.ruraledu.org 703-243-1487 fax 243-6035 Rachel Tompkins, president Rachel.tompkins@ruraledu.org

National Rural Education Association, http://www.nrea.net

Education Week, at www.edweek.org, calls itself “American education's newspaper of record” and has a relatively large reporting staff. It is published by Editorial Projects in Education, a nonnprofit, tax-exempt organization based in the Washington, D.C., area.

EducationNews.org is largely a news aggregator. Like Education Week, it is designed for educators but can be a resource on school issues.

Education Writers' Association, http://www.ewa.org

Center on Education Policy, http://www.ctredpol.org

National Education Association, www.nea.org/index.html, is the main teacher union.

American Federation of Teachers, www.aft.org, is smaller and more urban.

Frontier Education Center, http://www.frontierus.org 505-820-6732 Karen Sweeney Karen@frontierus.org HCR65, Box 126 Ojo Sarco NM 87521

HIGHER EDUCATION

American Council on Education, http://www.acenet.edu//AM/Template.cfm

National Dropout Prevention Center, http://www.dropoutprevention.org

School Matters, http://www.classbrain.com/artschool/publish/index.shtml
This Stanrad & Poor's site offers an excellent database of public-education information.

American Progress, http://www.americanprogress.org State-by-state education facts.

Education Index, http://www.educationindex.com

Public School District Finance Peer Search http://nces.ed.gov/edfin/search/search_intro.asp

SCHOOL HEALTH

MedlinePlus, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/schoolhealth.html, from the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. National Library of Medicine, has a page about school health issues, diseases, nutrition information, research, statistics, etc.

KENTUCKY SCHOOLS: Click here to watch sessions from "Beyond the Board Meeting: Improving Your Education Coverage," a November 2006 workshop on covering schools in Kentucky.

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