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1. School Choices: A Citizen's Guide to Education Reform
   Historical precedents and the latest research demonstrating the best ways of organizing schools. Info comparing our current public school systems to free market alternatives based on vouchers, tax-credits, and privatization. Many essays, articles, book reviews, and complete book chapters are included.
   http: //schoolchoices.org
   
   
2. Children's Educational Opportunity Foundation
   Lots of school choice information. Look especially at their state by state summaries of current efforts.
   http: //ceoamerica.org/
   
   
3. Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation
   A foundation supported by Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman. Advocates restructuring the education system to ensure educational service competition and free choice.
   http: //friedmanfoundation.org/
   
   
4. School Choice Act - MODEL LEGISLATION
   Simplified model School Choice legislation follows common sense objectives. Funding follows students, empowering parents, without vouchers.
   http: //queststar.net/webb/choice/act.htm
   
   
5. Toward Tradtion - The Jewish position on education and choice
   Advocates School Choice based on traditional Jewish principles: parents must have responsibility and control, teachers and schools are agents of parents, education should inculcate values as well as knowledge. Refutes ADL paper opposing Choice.
   http: //towardtradition.org/pposv.html
   
   
6. Why Real Educators Support School Choice
   Postulates that everyone who cares about the quality of education prefers School Choice over government school monopoly. Presents major arguments against Choice and debunks each one.
   http: //smart.net/~kaz/vouchers.html
   
   
7. Center for Education Reform
   Advocacy, statistics, resources and guidance on education reform issues and action at the school, district, state and national levels, from School Choice, charter schools, and educational entrepreneurialism to high academic standards, teacher professionalism and local control.
   http: //edreform.com/
   
   
8. The Effectiveness of School Choice in Milwaukee: A Secondary Analysis of Data fr
   For five years Harvard researchers refused to release their data for secondary analysis by other members of the scholarly community. Correcting for errors in the original analysis, this new Harvard study finds that students enrolled in choice schools for three or more years did better than a comparable group attending Milwaukee public schools
   http: //hdc-www.harvard.edu/pepg/op/evaluate.htm
   
   
9. School Choice Programs: What's Happening in the States
   This world renown conservative think tank publishes details and statistics on state School Choice efforts, and maintains links to many other Choice sites.
   http: //heritage.org/schools/
   
   

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