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The equipment, facilities, tools, materials, and personnel available for the teaching of the curriculum.

• A Cognitive Apprenticeship for Disadvantaged Students
  The thesis in this paper by Allan Collins, Jan Hawkins, and Sharon Carver is that the changing nature of work in society provides a potential meeting ground where education for the advantaged and disadvantaged can come together in a curriculum where the educational tasks reflect the future nature of work in society.
• Anti-Bias and Conflict Resolution Curricula: Theory and Practice
  The ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education conducted a survey to identify anti-bias projects providing services nationally to schools and organizations, and those with programs easily replicable by local educators. The result is A Directory of Anti-Bias Education Resources and Services, comprised of profiles of 52 such projects.
• Georgetown - Office of Curriculum and Pedagogy (OCP), within the Center for Social Justice
  Within the Center for Social Justice, the Office of Curriculum and Pedagogy assumes three major responsibilities. (1) To promote, expand, and integrate community-based intellectual work within the curriculum.
• Houston Consortium Of Urban Professional Development And Technology Centers
  A consortium of nine institutions including the University of Houston and the Houston Independent School District to produce teachers who are effective in culturally diverse urban environments.
• Implementing an Anti-Bias Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms. ERIC Digest
  Abstract: An antibias curriculum seeks to nurture children's potential by addressing issues of diversity and equity in the classroom. Goals of antibias curricula are to foster children's self-identity, interaction with people from diverse backgrounds, critical thinking about bias, and ability to stand up for themselves in the face of bias.
• Nonprofit Leadership and Democracy Curriculum: A Guide for Strategic Analysis, Participatory Research, Civic Action, and Effective Advocacy
  The Nonprofit Leadership and Democracy Project has developed an innovative educational and training curriculum to help equip current and future nonprofit leaders to meet the complex challenges facing the nonprofit sector.
• Peace Education
  In 1945, the United Nations was established to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war", "to reaffirm faith in the dignity and worth of the human person [and] in the equal rights of men and women", "to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained", and "to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom". Peace education has developed as a means to achieve these goals.
• Poverty Around the World
  This program will help us to explore some of the issues that people living in poverty face. Exploring the issues of poverty can help us to find solutions.
• Preventing and Countering School-Based Harassment
  Preventing and Countering School-Based Harassment is the result of two conferences on racial harassment and numerous training of trainer administrator workshops. This guide addresses the more comprehensive issue of school-based harassment by capturing similarities in cause of, type of, and remedy for all forms of harassment.
• Rights, rights, human rights.
  Rights, rights, human rights. The word gets around.
• Southern University At New Orleans And New Orleans Public School Partnership
  A collaborative program to implement the Comer School Development Program and enhance teacher preparation programs. In 1990, Southern University at New Orleans (SUNO) and the New Orleans Public Schools (NOPS) formed a partnership, in conjunction with the Yale Child Study Center and the Rockefeller Foundation, to develop a viable, collaborative and cooperative project to replicate the School Development Program (Comer Process).
• The Avoidance of Unnecessary Assumptions
  A classic article by Lewis Roberts...a bit mathematical, but if you are a quantitative researcher, you'll like this.
• The Souls of Black Folk
  First published in 1903, this extraordinary work not only recorded and explained history, it helped to alter its course. Written after Du Bois had earned a Ph.D.
• Transforming Education for Hispanic Youth: Exemplary Practices, Programs,and Schools
  A report on the Hispanic Dropout Project, a two-year study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education.
• Urban Teacher Academy Project (UTAP)
  This site is designed to help school districts and schools, colleges, and departments of education learn about high school teaching career academies -- programs that encourage high school students to consider careers in teaching.