The National Education Association believes that every child deserves a great public education. 

Unfortunately, misinformation can sometimes cause confusion about our positions and views. That's why NEA has put together a list of deceptions and truths to provide members and potential members with timely, well-thought-out responses  to the most frequent criticisms being leveled at NEA. It's our way of ensuring that despite all the allegations, all the untruths, NEA always has and always will speak for itself, its members and public education.

The following online resources may also be of assistance:

ACCESS
This website offers information on school funding and education reform in all 50 states.

Alfie Kohn
This author has been described in Time magazine as "perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores."

American Association of School Administrators
The AASA maintains a page on NCLB issues.

Arizona State University Educational Policy Research Unit
EPRU conducts original research, provides independent analyses of research and policy documents, and facilitates the implementation of innovations in areas such as student performance standards, assessment, and curriculum.

Center for Public Education 
Provides up-to-date research, data, and analysis on current education issues and explores ways to improve student achievement and engage public support for public schools.

Center for the Study of Jobs & Education in Wisconsin and United States
The Center for the Study of Jobs and Education in Wisconsin and the United States is an independent and non-profit research center.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities 
Conducts research and analysis to inform public debates over proposed budget and tax policies and to help ensure that the needs of low-income families and individuals are considered in these debates.

Communities for Quality Education  
This national education advocacy group seeks to build a partnership between people inside and outside the education community who share the common goal of building better public schools for every child.

Daily Kos
This blog offers a vibrant political community and occassional commentary from  President Jimmy Carter, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and dozens of other senators, congressmen, and governors.

EdResearch.Info
EdResearch.info seeks to make the findings of independent, peer-reviewed, replicated research on reading and writing education, as well as information on publicly reported tests of reading and writing achievement, accessible to busy parents, educators, and policymakers.

Education Disinformation Detection and Reporting Agency
EDDRA analyzes reports, dispels rumors, and rebuts lies about public education in the United States.

Education Policy Analysis Archives
A peer reviewed journal published by the Mary Lou Fulton College of Education at Arizona State University and the College of Education University of South Florida.

Education Policy and Leadership Center  
Encourages and supports the use of more effective state-level education policies to improve student learning in grades P-12, increase the effective operation of schools, and enhance educational opportunities for citizens of all ages.

Forum on Educational Accountability  
A coalition of national education, civil rights, religious, children's, disability, and civic organizations committed to achieving positive changes to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and related federal law and policy, for the purpose of closing the achievement gaps and improving achievement for all students.

Jim Trelease
This site focuses on Jim Trelease's efforts to help children make books into friends, not enemies, with excerpts from his books and book reviews.

Media Transparency
This site offers information about conservative philanthropies and their recipients.

National Association of Bilingual Educators
This organization represents English language learners and bilingual education professionals, with a combined membership of more than 20,000. Its website contains an NCLB  section.

National Council of Teachers of English
NCTE offers a resource site with a compilation of NCLB resources, support materials, and excerpts from teacher commentary on frequently requested topics.

National School Boards Association
NSBA's mission is to foster excellence and equity in public education through school board leadership.

Nochildleft.com
Jamie McKenzie, Ed.D. publishes this Web site. A former teacher, principal and superintendent, he has been writing and speaking about healthy change and schools for several decades.

People for the American Way
This progressive organization has a page on education issues.

Progressive States Network  
The mission of the Progressive States Network is to pass progressive legislation in all fifty states by providing coordinated research and strategic advocacy tools to forward-thinking state legislators.

Phi Delta Kappa International
This member-based association serves more than 500,000 members in communities across the United States and abroad.

RAND Corporation
The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis .

Real Education Solutions 
This organization aims to make things a little simpler for parents and taxpayers.

Rethinking Schools
An activist publication committed to equity and to the vision that public education is central to the creation of a humane, caring, multiracial democracy.

Schools Matter
A blog that explores issues in public education policy, and advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools.

SusanOhanian.org
This site compiles news, commentary and criticism about NCLB and other education issues.

Teachers College Columbia University
This site maintains an extensive collection of NCLB articles.

Think Tank Review Project of the Great Lakes Center  
Think Twice is one of the nation’s first efforts to serve as a watchdog to review think tank research on public education issues and policies, ensuring that published work meets the quality and standards of university scholarship.