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Higher Education Act: Reauthorization Status and Issues - A review of U.S. federal education policy, including the Higher Education Act, Pell Grants, student loans, teacher training, and distance education.
Coalition for Higher Education Act Reform - Recommends revision of the U.S. Higher Education Act which denies or delays financial aid to students with drug offenses.
The Collegiate Way: Residential Colleges and Higher Education Reform - Reforming campus life by dividing large universities into small residential colleges like those at Oxford and Cambridge.
The Pew Charitable Trusts - Reports from research grantees addressing issues in higher education reform.
Pope Center for Higher Education Policy - Conservative public policy organization publishing white papers and other reports on how to improve higher education. Global in interest, but having a special emphasis on North Carolina.
Rutgers After Lawrence: Reforming a Once-Great University - Faculty essay on the reforms needed at Rutgers University to strengthen academics and reduce the destructive impact of Division I athletics.
National Alliance for College Athletics Reform - Dedicated to insuring that big-time college sports do not compromise the educational missions of colleges and universities.
American Council of Alumni and Trustees - Committed to academic excellence and freedom of expression in higher education.
The Futures Project - Analysis of the role market forces play in higher education with the goal of developing and implementing thoughtful, market-oriented policy options.
Vermont Campus Compact - A higher education organization promoting greater institutional commitment to community service, service learning, and local partnerships

Wikipedia Articles

United States House Education Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness - The House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education is a standing subcommittee within the United States House Committee on Education and Labor. It was formerly known as the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Higher-order thinking - Higher-order thinking is a fundamental concept of Education reform based on Bloom's Taxonomy. Rather than simply teaching recall of facts, students will be taught reasoning and processes, and be better lifelong learners.
Alan Reynolds - Alan Reynolds is one of the original supply side economists is currently Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and was formerly Director of Economic Research at the Hudson Institute (1990-2000). He served as Research Director with National Commission on Tax Reform and Economic Growth (the "Kemp Commission"), an advisor to the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education, and as a member of the OMB transition team in 1981.