Resources:

• America Goes Back to School Partners Activity Kit 1996-97 from the U.S. Deptartment of Education
  http://www.ed.gov/Family/agbts_old/ActivityKit/
  
  
• America Goes Back to School: A Place for Families and the Community a U.S. Department of Education publication
  http://www.ed.gov/Family/BTS/
  
  
• Community Update focuses on how communities can learn from each other as they improve their schools.
  http://bcol01.ed.gov/CFAPPS/OIIA/communityupdate/page1.cfm/
  
  
• Encouraging School/Childcare Policies from the U.S. Department of Education
  gopher://gopher.ed.gov:10001/11/initiatives/family/employer/ policies
  
  
• Family Involvement in Education Initiatives Resources from the U.S. Department of Education
  gopher://gopher.ed.gov:10001/11/initiatives/family
  
  
• Family Involvement in Education from the U.S. Department of Education
  http://www.ed.gov/Family/
  
  
• The Improving America's Schools Act of 1994
  http://www.ed.gov/legislation/ESEA/index.html
  
  
• Improving Child Care and Schools a U.S. Department of Education publication
  gopher://gopher.ed.gov:10001/00/initiatives/family/employer/ file3
  
  
• The Mid-Atlantic Eisenhower Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education
  http://www.rbs.org/eisenhower/
  
  
• National Center for Educational Statistics: Products Released in the Last 90 Days lists their newest catalog items.
  http://nces.ed.gov/
  
  
• National Center for Education Statistics
  http://www.ed.gov/NCES/
  
  
• Penn State University: Educational Systems Design is a collection of resources to assist people trying to bring important changes to schools.
  http://www.ed.psu.edu/insys/ESD/Systems/Mindwalk/GT_MWalk.html
  
  
• Social Statistics Briefing Room: Education from the White House web site
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/education.html
  
  
• Strong Families - Strong Schools by Jennifer Ballen and Oliver Moles, for the national family initiative of the U.S. Department of Education
  http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/families/strong/
  
  
• Strong Families, Strong Schools Report (text only) a U.S. Department of Education Publication
  gopher://gopher.ed.gov:10001/11/initiatives/family/strong
  
  
• Technology and Education Reform reports the results of a research project that looked at nine school sites where school staff were active participants in incorporating technology in ways that support education reform.
  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/EdReformStudies/EdTech/
  
  
• Youth Indicators 1996 offers statistics on trends in the well-being of American youth compiled by the National Center for Educational Statistics.
  http://www.ed.gov/NCES/pubs/yi/
  
  

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