The following organizations work in fields related to Critical Exposure's mission, including education, advocacy, youth, and the arts. Our partner organizations are listed separately on our Sponsors & Partners page.
The Access Network works to promote meaningful educational opportunities for all children, especially those low-income and minority children currently being denied this opportunity. Among its activities, Access promotes better education by using education research, developing effective strategies for litigation, remedies (including cost studies), and communications, and providing tools for public engagement on educational equity issues.
www.schoolfunding.info
The Advancement Project works with communities using law, public policy, and strategic communications to advance universal opportunity, equity, and access for those left behind in America.
www.advancementproject.org
The Alliance for Excellent Education works to promote high school transformation to make it possible for every child to graduate prepared for postsecondary education and success in life.
www.all4ed.org
Americans for the Arts is the nation's leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts in America. They are dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
www.artsusa.org
The Annenberg Institute for School Reform is a standards-based and practice-centered policy-research and technical-assistance organization with an emphasis on promoting quality education for disadvantaged children and communities.
www.annenberginstitute.org
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities.
www.acorn.org
The Campaign for Fiscal Equity seeks to reform New York State's school finance system to ensure adequate resources and the opportunity for a sound basic education for all students in New York City.
www.cfequity.org
The Center for Community Change helps low-income people, especially people of color, build powerful, effective organizations through which they can change their communities and public policies for the better.
www.communitychange.org
The Center on Education Policy is a national, independent advocate for public education and for more effective public schools. The Center helps Americans better understand the role of public education in a democracy and the need to improve the academic quality of public schools.
www.ctredpol.org
Civilrights.org is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund working to serve as the site of record for relevant and up-to-the-minute civil rights news and information.
www.civilrights.org
The Council of Great City Schools is a coalition of 66 of the nation's largest urban public school systems working to promote urban education through legislation, research, media relations, instruction, management, technology, and other special projects.
www.cgcs.org
The Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform is a national network of school reformers who support efforts to create high-quality schools that ensure educational success for all urban young people.
www.crosscity.org
Editorial Projects in Education Inc. publishes Education Week, American education's newspaper of record, Teacher Magazine, edweek.org and Agent K-12. They also publish periodic special reports on issues ranging from technology to textbooks, as well as books of special interest to educators.
www.edweek.org
The Education Law Center (ELC) is a non-profit legal advocacy and educational organization, dedicated to ensuring that all of Pennsylvania's children have access to a quality public education.
www.elc-pa.org
The Education Policy and Leadership Center (EPLC) works to encourage and support 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.
www.eplc.org
Education Sector is an independent education think tank. They are nonprofit and nonpartisan, both a dependable source of sound thinking on policy and an honest broker of evidence in key education debates.
www.educationsector.org
Exposure is dedicated to the advancement of human rights through the instruction, promotion, and encouragement of photojournalism and documentary studies.
www.tuftsgloballeadership.org/exposure/exposure.htm
Good Schools Pennsylvania is a statewide non-profit organization working with a coalition of education, religious and civic associations to mobilize parents, students and concerned citizens for comprehensive public education reform.
www.goodschoolspa.org
The Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) is an independent, private non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening public schools to work for all children.
www.idra.org
The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) - the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States - works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans.
www.nclr.org
The National Equity Center is a non-partisan organization established to promote diversity and democratic values by cultivating, training, and empowering a generation of citizens with the leadership, community organizing, academic research, and advocacy skills necessary to eliminate existing local and national civil rights and social justice disparities.
http://nationalequitycenter.org/index.php
New Leaders for New Schools promotes high academic achievement for every child by attracting, preparing, and supporting the next generation of outstanding leaders for our nation's urban public schools.
www.nlns.org
Our Education is the voice of young people across the country who believe that all American children should have access to high quality education. Our Education's mission is to improve K-12 education by engaging and empowering America's youth in a national movement for better schools.
www.oured.org
The Rural School and Community Trust is a national nonprofit organization addressing the crucial relationship between good schools and thriving communities. Their mission is to help rural schools and communities get better together.
www.ruraledu.org
Stand for Children exists because children in communities across America have no power to influence our democratic system to meet their fundamental needs. Their mission is to teach everyday people how to join together in an effective grassroots voice in order to win concrete, long- lasting improvements for children, at both state and local levels.
www.stand.org
Teaching for Change provides teachers and parents with the tools to transform schools into socially equitable centers of learning where students become architects of a better future.
www.teachingforchange.org
The 21st Century School Fund was founded on the premise that communities are responsible for creating healthy, safe, and educationally appropriate learning environment. Their mission is to build the public will and capacity to improve urban public school facilities.
www.21csf.org
The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is dedicated to the encouragement of excellence in education through the identification of critical needs and the development of effective national programs to address them.
www.woodrow.org
The Youth Policy Action Center is a website that engages young people (and adults) in democracy: changing policies that change young people's lives.
www.youthpolicyactioncenter.org
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