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Links to Education Resources
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Lesson Plans | Education Sites | Research on Education | Specific Topics
Lesson Plans
Blue Web'n - A Library of Blue Ribbon Learning Sites on the Web
Searchable online library of over 1,800 Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references and tools).
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/bluewebn/index.cfm
Educator's Reference Desk
Links to 3,000 resources on a variety of educational issues, lesson plans, a question archive and the ERIC database.
http://www.eduref.org
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
FREE is a working group of over 30 federal agencies providing hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources available through its website.
http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html
The Gateway to Educational Materials on the Web
Lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources from federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial Internet sites.; sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.
http://thegateway.org/
Global SchoolNet Foundation
Currently, schools from over 100 countries participate in GlobalSchoolNet online projects. Includes a collaboration center clearinghouse with helpful material on content, potential collaborative partners, learning tools, and implementation strategies. The CyberFair section explains how young people can conduct research, publish their findings on the Web, and have the opportunity to win accolades.
http://www.globalschoolnet.org/index.html
Marco Polo: Internet Content for the Classroom
The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based lesson plans, student activities and reviewed websites for kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) teachers and students.
http://www.marcopolo-education.org
Education Sites
The Internet Public Library: Education
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/edu00.00.00
Moving Ideas - The Electronic Policy Network
A project of The American Prospect magazine, the Moving Ideas Network provides a Link Library of websites related to education and other topics.
http://movingideas.org//links/edlinks.html
Teaching.com
A free, non-commercial educational website for educators and students. Teachers can sign up to discuss teaching techniques and trade lesson plan ideas. The KeyPals Club is "a place for young people, teachers and students to locate and correspond with other youth and students around the world." The site also has a place where teachers can share such ideas as "What was a piece of advice that was very helpful to you during your first year of teaching?"
http://www.teaching.com/
U.S. Department of Education Supported Sites
http://www.ed.gov/about/contacts/gen/othersites/othered.html
University Business
A magazine with articles on the current and emerging trends in university and college management, including enrollment, technology, academic affairs and legislation.
http://www.universitybusiness.com
Research on Education
AskERIC
ERIC is a centralized bibliographic database of journal articles and other published and unpublished educational materials and is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.
http://www.eric.ed.gov
Brown Center on Education Policy
Affiliated with Brookings Institution, the Center conducts research on topics in American education, with special focus on efforts to improve academic achievement in elementary and secondary schools.
http://www.brookings.edu/gs/brown/brown_hp.htm
Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. Congress, House of Representatives
Established on January 7, 1997, this Congressional committee has basic jurisdiction over education and labor matters.
http://edworkforce.house.gov/
Education Policy Analysis Archives
EPAA is a peer-reviewed journal published by the Education Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University.
http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/
Education Policy Clearinghouse
Designed by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education to help users access education policy and teacher quality information; also provides current news, research and legislation from the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
http://www.edpolicy.org/
Education Resource Organizations Directory
U.S. Department of Education. Identifies organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics.
http://bcol02.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/
Education Week
American education's online newspaper includes Teacher Magazine, The Daily News, special reports and education information from the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
http://www.edweek.org
National Education Association (NEA)
Information about public schools and the issues they face, including reviews of pending legislation, from the association representing the concerns of public educators.
http://www.nea.org/index.html
U.S. Network for Education Information
U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/edlite-index.html
Specific Topics
Distance Learning
Distance Education at a Glance
A series of guides from the University of Idaho to help teachers, administrators and students understand distance education.
http://www.uidaho.edu/evo/distglan.html
Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration
A peer-reviewed electronic journal published quarterly and includes articles by practitioners and researchers with specific focus or implications for the management of distance education programs.
http://www.westga.edu/~distance/jmain11.html
Peterson's Distance Learning Programs
Descriptions of distance learning programs and courses at U.S. institutions, including contact information, searchable by course of study and degree/award level.
http://www.petersons.com/distancelearning/
Disabilities
Schools and Colleges
America's Best Colleges
U.S. News & World Report ranking of colleges, including articles and other information.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/cohome.htm
America's Best Graduate Schools
U.S. News & World Report ranking of graduate schools, articles and information about graduate programs.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/grhome.htm
Historically Black Colleges and Universities
College View's listing includes a directory of historically black colleges and universities with contact information, school and student profiles and articles
http://www.collegeview.com/college/niche/hbcuu/
U.S. Charter Schools
http://www.uscharterschools.org/pub/uscs_docs/index.htm
Statistics
Digest of Education Statistics, 2002
Compilation of statistical information covering the field of education from pre-kindergarten through graduate school, produced by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), U.S. Department of Education.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/2003060.pdf
Mini-Digest of Education Statistics, 2002
A pocket-sized compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from kindergarten through graduate school. The statistical highlights are excerpts from the Digest of Education of Statistics, 2002.
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/2003061.pdf
National Center for Education Statistics
NCES, U.S. Department of Education, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States and other nations.
http://www.nces.ed.gov
Testing
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing is an advocacy organization working to end the abuses, misuses and flaws of standardized testing and ensure that evaluation of students and workers is fair, open, and educationally sound. We place special emphasis on eliminating the racial, class, gender, and cultural barriers to equal opportunity posed by standardized tests, and preventing their damage to the quality of education.
http://www.fairtest.org/
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