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Links to Useful Parent Sites

Berkeley Community Youth Services Inventory
Compiled by the Berkeley Alliance, an organization created by the City of Berkeley, the University of California, Berkeley and the Berkeley Unified School District, to partner with the broader Berkeley community and to address city-wide issues.

The California State University online information web site. 

Children Now
Children Now is a research and action organization dedicated to assuring that children grow up in economically secure families, where parents can go to work confident that their children are supported by quality health coverage, a positive media environment, a good early education, and safe, productive things to do after school. Children Now designs its strategies to improve children's lives while at the same time helping America build a sustained commitment to putting children first. Recognized for its expertise in media as a tool for change, Children Now is an
independent, nonpartisan organization. (from Children Now's mission statement)

Community Resources For Science
This is a local non-profit group that is an active resource guide to science opportunities in the Bay Area. They also help integrate science into Elementary school curriculums, finds and trains local science professionals to to volunteer in the classroom, and finds grant opportunities for teachers. A great organization!

Edsource
A Site the breaks down and clarifies California's sometime complex and contradictory education issues.

EdVoice
A site created by business and community leaders who understand that the future of California will be determined by the quality of its public schools. Lobbies for education issues in the capital.

Family Education Network

An award-winning site brimming with information on parenting, education, homework help, teacher resources, fun and games, etc.  This site's partners are National PTA, National Education Association, American Association of School Administrators, National School Boards Foundation, many others.

Great Schools
A site that lists and evaluates K12 schools, public and private, mostly in the western states.

HerStory
"We have found through our own experiences and those of other teachers using the curriculum that when we uncover the hidden histories of women and other under-represented groups the entire community is measurably enriched and much more respectful of the whole human experience. " From Herstory's Mission Statement

Making Math Real
A math institute and clinic, founder and director David Berg teaches this program at UC extension in Berkeley and Santa Cruz and has create a model program at Cragmont Elementary. There will be a 2 week summer clinic that will be an intensive adaptation of the model. Click on the link above for more info.

The Parents Network
Formally UCB Parents, this site contains thousands of pages of advice and recommendations in the Berkeley area.

Pathways: The University of California's online undergraduate admission information and application network.

The University of Kansas Medical Center Diversity Calendar
This popular site is linked to the White House for diversity information. A great starting point to learn stories about the many different events and holidays, religious and secular, in our country.