Parent Organizations:

Advocates for Children of New York, Inc.
Address: 151 West 30th St. 5th Fl., New York, NY 10001
AFC works in partnership with New York City's most impoverished and vulnerable families to secure quality and equal public education services. AFC provides a full range of services: free individual case advocacy, technical assistance, and training for parents, students, and professionals about children's educational entitlements and due process rights.

Heartland Institute
Address: 19 South LaSalle Street, Suite 903, Chicago, IL 60603
The Heartland Institute is a genuinely independent source of research and commentary founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1984. It is not affiliated with any political party, business, or foundation. Its activities are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Heartland's mission is to help build social movements in support of ideas that empower people.

Inside Schools (NYC)
Address: 151 West 30th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10001
Inside Schools, a program of Advocates for Children of New York, a non-profit organization that provides a full range of educational support, legal, and advocacy services for parents, young people, and professionals, posts reviews of New York City schools, lists information about tests and admissions, and provides a forum for parents, teachers and administrators to share what they know best about the city's schools.

National Parent and Teacher Association
Address: 541 North Fairbanks, CT, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60611-3396
National PTA is the largest volunteer child advocacy organization in the United States. A not-for-profit association of parents, educators, students, and other citizens active in their schools and communities, PTA is a leader in reminding our nation of its obligations to children.

National Parenting Education Network (NPEN)
Address: 200 S. Beatty Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15206
The National Parenting Education Network is committed to advancing the field of parenting education.

ParentSmart
ParentSmart's website facilitates the search for information by evaluating scores of websites and selecting the ones that have extensive and useful articles about education—approximately 50,000 articles total.

Public Education Network
Address: 601 Thirteenth St. NW, Suite 900N, Washington, DC 20005
Public Education Network (PEN) is a national association of local education funds (LEFs) and individuals working to advance public school reform in low-income communities across our country.

Professional Education Organizations:

American Association of School Administrators (AASA)
Address: 1801 North Moore Street, Arlington, VA 22209
A professional organization for over 16,500 educational leaders across North America and other countries.

The American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Address: 1230 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036
Founded in 1916, AERA's 22,000 members are concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly Inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.

American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO (AFT)
Address: 555 New Jersey Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20001
The American Federation of Teachers was founded in 1916 to represent the economic, social and professional interests of classroom teachers. It is an affiliated international union of the AFL-CIO. The AFT has more than 3,000 local affiliates nationwide, 43 state affiliates, and more than 1.3 million members.

The Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR)
Address: Brown University, Box 1985, Providence, RI 02912
AISR develops, shares and acts on knowledge that improves the conditions and outcomes of schooling in America, especially in urban communities and in schools serving disadvantaged children. The Annenberg Institute works in collaboration with education reform organizations, school districts, School Improvement networks, and education funds to develop the Capacity of urban communities to build and sustain programs and policies that improve teaching and learning.

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Address: 1100 H ST NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005
Founded in 1943, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that represents 170,000 educators from more than 135 countries and more than 60 affiliates.

Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Address: 1 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20001
A nationwide, non-profit organization composed of public officials who lead the departments responsible for elementary and secondary education in the states, the US extra-states jurisdictions, the District of Columbia, and the Department of Defense Education Activity. CCSSO provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues. The Council seeks member consensus on major educational issues and expresses their views to civic and professional organizations, federal agencies,
Congress, and the public.

Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS)
Address: 1301 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 702, Washington, DC 20004
An organization of the nation's largest urban public school systems, advocating K-12 grade education in inner-city schools, and governed by superintendents and board of education members from 50 cities across the United States.

Education Commission of the States (ECS)
Address: 707 17th Street, #2700 Denver, CO 80202
The mission of the Education Commission of the States is to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public Policy for education that addresses current and future needs of a learning society. The idea of an interstate compact on education was set forth in the mid-1960s by James Bryant Conant, an educator, scientist and diplomat who had served as the president of Harvard University from 1933 to 1953. Writing at a time when the GI Bill, the National Defense Education Act, the Great Society legislation and other initiatives had greatly enlarged the federal role in education, Conant, in his 1964 book Shaping Education Policy, called for a kind of counterbalance - a mechanism for improving and strengthening education policy and policymaking at the state level.

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Address: 4-194 Center for Science & Technology, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244
A federally-funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.

The Education Trust
Address:  1250 H St. NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20005
The Education Trust was established in 1990 by the American Association for Higher Education as a special project to encourage colleges and universities to support K-12 reform efforts. Since then, The Ed Trust has grown into an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to make schools and colleges work for all of the young people they serve. We believe that it is impossible to achieve significant change in K-12 without simultaneously changing the way that postsecondary education does business. We also believe that postsecondary education needs improving as much as K-12.

The Regional Educational Laboratory Program
The Regional Educational Laboratory Program (the "Lab Program") is the U.S. Department of Education's largest research and development investment designed to help educators, policy makers, and communities improve schools and help all students attain their full potential. Administered by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES; formerly known as the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, OERI), the network of 10 Regional Laboratories works to ensure that those involved in educational improvement at the local, state and regional levels have access to the best available research and knowledge from practice. The Laboratories also want to ensure that information about exemplary and promising programs as well as other important lessons about school reform developed or learned in one site can be appropriately applied elsewhere.

National Academy of Education (NAE)
Address: 500 Fifth St. NW, #1049, Washington, DC 20001
The NAE aims for the advancement of educational research and the formulation of policy. Its one hundred fifty U.S. members and twenty-five foreign memebers are elected based on celebrated scholarship and exceptional contributions to education.

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards® (NBPTS)
Address: 1525 Wilson Blvd., Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22209
NBPTS is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization providing a national voluntary system certifying teachers who meet high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do. NBPTS is governed by a board of directors, the majority of whom are classroom teachers.

National Education Association (NEA)
Address: 1201 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036
America's oldest and largest education organization committed to advancing public education. The NEA has over 2.2 million members who work at every level of education, from preschool to university graduate programs.

National School Boards Association (NSBA)
Address: 1680 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA 22314
NSBA is the nationwide advocacy and outreach organization for public school governance.

US Department of Education
The federal government is involved with both specific school reforms and
also with achieving accountability with all states. For The No Child Left Behind homepage: (http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml?src=pb)