Guided by a set of Common Principles, CES strives to create and sustain a network of personalized, equitable, and intellectually challenging schools.
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Fall Forum is our annual conference. See highlights from last year’s Fall Forum and find out about 2009's Fall Forum, "Changing Schools, Changing Lives."

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The CES Benchmarks have been updated! The Benchmarks align specific practices with the Common Principles to help educators understand the essential elements of high achieving and equitable CES schools.

Registration is open for the Small Schools Summer Institute.

Students from MetEast High School are featured on MSNBC, "Urban high school's rare feat: No dropouts", describing how the school is built around student's passions and community project.

The Compass School celebrates its 10th anniversary as a CES school and is featured in a Keene Sentinel article, outlining its success. Congratulations to the Compass School community!

Students from the Bronx Guild are featured in a Huffington Post column describing an innovative science education program.

Horace 24.4, Cycles of Inquiry and Action, is now available on-line.

Make an online donation to our Individual Giving Campaign, ensuring CES remains a leading voice for educational change.

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The CES Small Schools Project is creating a new generation of CES schools through mentorship - connecting veteran, exemplary CES Mentor Schools with small, instructionally powerful, new and reconfigured CES schools - and supporting their work with grants, extensive professional development opportunities, and research.
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CES EssentialVisions DVD series

Horace, CES's quarterly journal

CES National Research, featuring Essential Analysis, a new resource for administering and analyzing surveys that support CES-focused data-based inquiry.