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  • Campaign for Meaningful Student Involvement - Seeks to deeply engage ALL students in ALL schools so our communities leave no child behind through researching publications, networking organizations, and creating materials to promote student involvement in education reform.
  • Centre of Excellence for Youth Involvement - Finds, describes and builds models of effective strategies for engaging youth in meaningful participation and making healthy decisions for healthy living.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Schools Not Jails - Offers a transformative vision of education created by students, including getting JROTC out of schools, giving all youth a chance at college, and revolutionizing the curriculum.
  • Seattle Young People's Project - A youth-led youth empowerment organization set up to provide young people with a voice to effect social change in their communities and schools.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • What Kids Can Do - Compelling examples of young people working with adults in their schools and communities on the real-world issues that concern them most, with publications and links.
  • 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.
  • Youth Together - Coordinates student organizing teams and resources for school change throughout the San Francisco area.
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Last update : 2003-06-30 18:42:49

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