Last Updated: February 5, 1997
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To learn more about and find ways that you can help with the issues of urban education explore the sites listed below.

• The Center for Education Reform is a national, nonprofit education advocacy group and an active broker in providing resources, support and guidance for school reform to communities across the United States.

• The Center for Excellence in Urban Education seeks to move beyond the rhetoric of higher education for urban students and put action behind the talk.

• Common Knowledge: Pittsburgh is a project for using the Internet to support curricular activities and education reform. Topics include assessment, collaborations, process models and technical products.

• Council of the Great City Schools is an organization of the nation's largest urban public school systems, advocating K-12 education in inner-city schools.

• Education Week states its goal to be "the first place on the Web people come to for information about educational reform." The site includes not just the text of the journal, but also background papers, and links to previous stories, on such topics as charter schools, privatization, vouchers, internet, and phonics.

• Head Start This is the Department of Health and Human Services page for the Head Start program. You will find information on the history of the program and its future.

• MiddleWeb is a site that explores Middle School reform with specific focus on urban schools.

• National Education Association is the homepage for the 2.2 million members of this teacher's association. How are teachers making a difference in the lives of our children and what can we do to help them? Vist this page to find out.

• National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Student is from the United States Department of Education and provides articles and studies on reaserach into the topic of at-risk students, particulary those at a disadvantage because of imited English proficiency, poverty, race, geographic location, or economic disadvantage.

• National PTA is the oldest and largest volunteer association in the United States working exclusively on behalf of children and youth.

• Plugged In a nonprofit, located and providing service in Palo Alto, Ca. is a national role model for connecting low income communities with the information economy.

• Urban Education Service Corps seeks to enhance educational excellence for the urban student by linking national service to improve urban teacher recruitment and professional development.

• Urban Education Web is dedicated and for urban students, their families and teachers. It provides a wealth of resources on subjects that deal specifically with urban and education and families.

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