Educational Excellence Network is a national information clearinghouse and source of expert advice and sound thinking on significant issues affecting education.

The Core Knowledge Foundation is dedicated to excellence and fairness in early education. The foundation conducts research on curricula, develops books and other materials for parents and teachers, offers workshops for teachers, and serves as the hub of a growing network of Core Knowledge schools.

K12 is a new Internet-based elementary and secondary school that fuses time-tested learning methods, traditional academic content, and powerful technology. Its approach - combining proven methods of instruction, a kindergarten through twelfth grade curriculum from internationally praised sources, and innovative technology - is unprecedented.

Available to parents and children everywhere beginning the fall of 2001, it will teach, tutor, and carefully evaluate the progress of students in a comprehensive learning-and-assessment program.

Its chairman, William J. Bennett, formed the school with the support of Knowledge Universe Learning Group, a leading education company.

Knowledge Universe Learning Group (KULG) companies enhance the adventure of learning from birth through graduate school. The range of products and services at KULG companies include interactive education products, technology training and career resources for teachers; early childhood education; and interactive learning Web sites for children, their parents, grandparents and teachers.

The Center for Education Reform is a national, independent, non-profit advocacy organization providing support and guidance to individuals, community and civic groups, policy makers, and others who are working to bring fundamental reforms to their schools.

An Educators' Guide to Schoolwide Reform is a serious evaluation prepared for educators and others to use when investigating different approaches to school reform. It reviews the research of 24 "whole-school", or "schoolwide" approaches.

4Choice is a website promoting school choice based on child-centered funding.

Mathematically Correct is devoted to the concerns raised by parents and scientists about the invasion of our schools by the New-New Math and the need to restore basic skills to math education. New-New Math, another term for Whole Math, describes the current revolution in mathematics curriculum that emphasizes group discussion, essays, calculators and guessing and de-emphasizes basic skills and direct instruction.

The Heritage Foundation is committed to rolling back the liberal welfare state and building an America where freedom, opportunity, and civil society flourishes. Of particular interest is their page School Choice 2003: What's Happening in the States.

The No Excuses campaign is a national effort organized by The Heritage Foundation to mobilize public pressure on behalf of better education for the poor. The No Excuses campaign brings together liberals, centrists, and conservatives who are committed to high academic achievement among children of all races, ethnic groups, and family incomes.

Participants in the No Excuses campaign may hold differing views about vouchers, the federal role in education, and other policy issues. But they agree that there is no excuse for the academic failure of most public schools serving poor children. All children can learn. Hundreds of public, private, and religious schools serving low-income children have proved it.