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Comprehensive background information and links on U.S. education issues.

NPR presents a multi-part series on homework -- how educators are balancing mandates to improve test scores against a chronic lack of resources and the need for children to have enough time to be children.

RU's Center for Gender Studies provides aspects of Award-Recipient Hilary Lips' Distinguished American Scholar keynote address in New Zealand highlighting her research on young women & men current possible academic self-views.

As home schooling grows as a movement, there is increasing politics from anti-home school forces to try to interfere with or legislatively control home schoolers.

This Web site supports a national campaign for educational equity for girls in their early teens