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Home / Kids and Teens / People and Society / Organizations / Student / Student-led Education Reform
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- Campaign for Meaningful Student Involvement - The goal of the Campaign for Meaningful Student Involvement is to deeply engage ALL students in ALL schools so our communities leave no child behind. Includes publications, organizations, materials and networking to promote student involvement in education reform.
www.studentinvolvement.net
- Centre of Excellence for Youth Involvement - Our Centre of Excellence finds, describes and builds models of effective strategies for engaging youth in meaningful participation and making healthy decisions for healthy living.
www.tgmag.ca/centres
- Eye on Education/Students' Voices - Boston's WGBH 89.7 goes behind the scenes with YWCA's Youth Voice Collaborative to produce "Classroom Voices: Teen and Teacher Radio Diaries." Features audio and transcripts of interviews with students.
www.eyeoneducation.tv/students
- Power to the Youth - A non-profit organization advocating increased student power throughout schools. Provides tools and resources for increased student involvement in school reform efforts.
www.youthpower.net
- Schools Not Jails - Schools Not Jails' Youth Organizing Communities offers a transformative vision of education created by students, including getting JROTC out of schools and giving all youth a chance at college, and revolutionizing the curriculum.
schoolsnotjails.com/categories.php?op=newindex&catid=2
- Seattle Young People's Project - Seattle Young People's Project is a youth run and lead, youth empowerment organization set up to provide young people with a voice to effect social change, including schools.
www.sypp.org
- Student Advocates for Freedom and Equality - Provides information on several student-centered education reform platforms, including student representation on school boards, ending illegal search and seizure, ending zero-tolerance, extending civics classes, promoting free speech campuses and more.
www.geocities.com/student_advocates
- Students Against School Internet Censorship (SASIC) - A site founded by students devoted to the fight against internet censorship in Calgary schools.
www.sasic.org
- Students Against Testing - SAT believes that action from the student body itself is the most direct way to counteract the boredom and petty competition that currently plagues the schools. Site contains resources, networks, and publications for students to fight standardized tests in schools.
www.nomoretests.com
- Youth Leadership and Service Team - The Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction's student and youth involvement work group website, with a massive student involvement bibliography. Promotes deepened roles for students throughout education through workshops for students, teachers, and administrators.
www.k12.wa.us/integratedcurr/YES
- Youth Together - Youth Together coordinates student organizing teams and resources for school change throughout the San Francisco area.
www.youthtogether.net
- Revolt Against Terrible Schools (RATS) - Includes a student protest guide, information on organizing a walkout, a zine making guide, other information about how to resist, and tales of protest.
schoolrevolt.rise.za.net
- What Kids Can Do - What Kids Can Do combs the country for compelling examples of young people working with adults in their schools and communities on the real-world issues that concern them most.
www.whatkidscando.org
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