Topics: Issues : Education
Society: Issues: Education is intended for websites dealing with public issues related to education: access to education, financing of education, government control of schools, legislation, policy, news, etc. Sites specifically intended for students or teachers, or with a classroom focus, should be submitted to the appropriate subcategory of Reference: Education.
Bilingual Education
Society: Issues: Bilingual Education deals with the policy and debate of issues relating to the education of limited-English proficient students in some combination of their native language and English.
News and Media,
Policy and Legislation,
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Children's Opinions
Sites dedicated to young people expressing their opinions about school and education in general.
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Commercialism
Deals with the encroachment of commercialism into public and/or private precollege education. Textbooks, billboards, computer internet access and snack machines are all becoming much more commercial as the purchasing power of students is increasing.
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Creation and Evolution
The teaching of how humans 'got here' will always be controversial, but this category is for discussions regarding the EDUCATIONAL aspects of this topic.
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Diploma Mills
Category for sites that educate visitors about the issue of diploma mills which are institutions that grant degrees based upon payment only although they may use the language of higher education (accredited, alternative or distance education, etc.) to fool people into believeing the degrees are of value.
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Education Reform
Education reform is mainly about changing 'traditional' educational practices or policies, presumably for the better.
Block Scheduling,
Compulsory Schooling,
Curriculum Reform,
Higher Education Reform,
Reports and Research,
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Grade Inflation
Simply put, grade inflation is when teachers/professors give a student (or many students) a grade higher than the grade earned.
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Higher Education
Issues related specifically to college -- anything after graduating high school. Examples are the cost of college, the unpreparedness of students entering college, the usefulness of college, the value of college to someone's overall income level...
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Home Schooling
Sites dealing with the political aspects of homeschooling belong in this category: * Proposed national, federal, or local legislation * Daytime curfews * Regulations for testing, registering, government oversight * Lobbying efforts of homeschooling advocacy groups * Government homeschooling programs * Charter and voucher programs that include homeschoolers
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Literacy
Literacy and literacy training and issues, for (1) citizens who are not literate in any language and (2) new citizens or immigrants who wish or need to learn the dominant "tongue" as a second language.
Adult Literacy,
Information Literacy,
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School Choice
Major advocacy, research and legislation on allowing parents to choose schools instead of buying public education solely from the government.
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Sex Education
This category incorporates sites relevant to the various viewpoints associated with the issue of sex education.
Abstinence-Only,
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Sports
Issues involved in the relationship between educational institutions and the athletic programs which they sponsor.
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Standardized Testing
State Testing,
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