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Education
Web Sites
ERIC
- ERIC, "the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national
information system designed to provide users with ready access to
an extensive body of education-related literature." Subject specific
information is available from one of the ERIC
Clearinghouses or Adjunct
ERIC Clearinghouses.
Directories
- American
Universities
- American
School Directory
- Provides information
on number of students, number of homerooms, grades, phone and fax
numbers, URLs, school calendars, administrators, and local street
maps for 106,000 K-12 school in the United States.
- U.S.
Universities, by State
- A list of regionally-accredited
U.S. universities, organized by state.
- RESOURCES
OF SCHOLARLY SOCIETIES - Education
- "This is one
of a set of subject pages created by compilers at the University of
Waterloo Library to facilitate access to websites maintained by or
for scholarly societies across the world. "
Federal Government Resources
- U.S.
Department of Education
- National
Center for Education Statistics
- The National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity
for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United
States and other nations. Publications includes Digest
of Education Statistics, The
Condition of Education, Projections
of Education Statistics, and National
Assessment of Educational Progress..
- The
Student Guide
- A resource on
student financial aid from the U.S. Department of Education.
Financial Aid Resources
- FinAid:
the Financial Aid Information Page
- This page provides a free, comprehensive, independent,
and objective guide to student financial aid.
- The
Student Guide
- A resource on student financial aid from the U.S.
Department of Education.
- Financial
Aid and Money Links
- Sallie
Mae
Grants for Education Resources
- Guide
to U.S. Department of Education Programs and Resources
- "The Guide to U.S. Department of Education Programs
and Resources is a ready reference for education funds allocated by
Congress to the U.S. Department of Education. You will also find information
about laboratories and centers and other research oriented functions
that produce resources important to education."
- The Foundation Center
- "The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit
information clearinghouse...mission is to foster public understanding
of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and
disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related
subjects."
- NASA
K-12 Internet Initiative: Grant Information
- Information on grants for educators with special
focus on science, math, engineering, and educational technology.
- Grants
WEB
- Links to grants-related Internet sites and resources,
including funding opportunities, grants
- NSF
Funding Opportunities and Awards
- Everythings you need to know about National
Science Foundation's grants.
- Pitsco's
Launch to Grants and Funding
- Links to other grants and fundings resources.
- Teachers'
Guide to Fellowships and Awards
- A list of fellowships and awards with information
on purpose, eligibility, deadline, and contact information.
- Yahoo!
- Education:Financial Aid:Grants
Teaching Resources
- General
- Education World(tm) Where
Educators Go To Learn
- "The Educator's Complete Resource Guide to the Internet."
- EdWeb
Home Page
- A site that "explore
the worlds of educational reform and information technology."
- ENC
Online
- The official
site of the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and
Science Education.
- Best
Practices in Education Main Page
- The site of BEST
PRACTICES IN EDUCATION a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
working with American teachers to find effective educational practices
from other countries to adapt and apply in United States schools.
- TEACHERS
HELPING TEACHERS
- Ideas, teaching
tips, and more for teachers by teachers.
- Welcome
to AskERIC
- A personalized
Internet-based service providing education information to teachers,
librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout
the United States and the World.
- Web66
Home Page
- The Web66 project
is designed to facilitate the introduction of technology into K12
schools.
- NASA's
Quest Project
- The Quest Project
provide support and services for schools, teachers and students to
fully utilize the Internet, and its underlying information technologies,
as a basic tool for learning. It is a service of the Education Program of the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration.
- Welcome
to GLEF
- George Lucas
Education Foundation
- Cresst
Home Page
- National Center
for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST)
conducts research on important topics related to K-12 educational
testing.
- IBM
Higher Education
- Educom
- Educom is a
nonprofit consortium of higher education institutions that facilitates
the introduction, use, and access to and management of information
resources in teaching, learning, scholarship, and research.
Curriculum
Resources and Lesson Plans
- Ask
ERIC Lesson Plans
- Browse by subject
for lesson plan in the arts, mathematics, educational technology,
physical education, foreign language, science, health, social studies,
interdisciplinary vocational education, and language arts for K-12.
- Brain
Station
- Contains links
to education related resources. Including links to resources for grades
K-6 and 7-12, homework help, online museums, and more.
- Columbia
Education Center
- Lesson plans
created by teachers for use in their own classrooms.
- Connection+
- "Connections+
consists of Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum
resources--linked with corresponding subject-area content standards"
- Cradleboard
Teaching Project
- The Cradleboard
Teaching Project is a project of the Nihewan Foundation for American
Indian education.
- Curriculum
Web
- K-12 multicurriculuar,
distance-learning projects plus organized and subject-matter indexed
educational resources.
- Educator's
Tool Kit: Lesson Plans
- Links to other
lesson plans on the Web.
- GLO
- Global Learning On-Line
- For teaching about
global issues.
- Houghton
Mifflin's Education Place
- K-8 resources.
- Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators
- "Kathy Schrock's
Guide for Educators is a classified list of sites on the Internet
found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional
growth. "
- Scholastic.com's
Classroom Activities and Reproducibles
- Lessons and activities
reproduced from curriculum materials published by Scholastic Inc.
A "leading publisher and distributor of children's books, classroom
and professional magazines, and other educational products."
- Star
Tribune Online Idea
- The Star Tribune's
site to support teachers in there classrooms with daily news quizes,
classroom activities, educational links, and modified news articles
for 4th to 6th graders.
- Teacher.Net
LESSON PLAN EXCHANGE
- A place where teachers
can exchange there teaching ideas and lesson plans.
- Web
Sites and Resources for K-6
- Links to other
lesson plans on the Web.
Resources
for Students
- Gifted
and Talented (TAG) Resources Home Page
- Contains link
to resources for gifted students, their parents and educators
- WorldWide
Classroom
- WorldWide Classroom
is a compilation of intercultural and educational programs around
the world which welcome international visitors.
- CollegeNET
Home Page
- CollegeNET, a
service that allows students, parents and educators to search the
internet for college and university information, apply online to institutions
and search online for financial aid and scholarship
- studyabroad.com
Study Abroad Programs Directory
- Listings for thousands
of study abroad programs in more than 100 countries throughout the
world.
- Welcome
to Kaplan Educational Centers
- Kaplan is an educational
company specializing in test preparation, admissions and career services.
- Peterson.com's
The Education Supersite
College
Rankings
- Measuring
Up 2000: The State-by-State Report Card for Higher Education
- This report grades states on their performance in five categories: preparation,
participation, affordability, completion and benefits.
- 1998
College Rankings: USNews - edu
- "U.S. News &
World Report's exclusive college rankings are taken from the 1998
edition of America's Best Colleges."
- 1998
Graduate School Rankings: USNews - edu
- 1998 U.S. News'
America's Best Graduate Schools
- Money
Online: College Search
- Princeton
Review: College Rankings
- Faisal's
Home Page - College Rankings
- Research-Doctorate
Program of the United States: Continuity and Change (1995)
- A report to the
National Research Council. This site includes downloadable tables
in Microsoft EXCEL 5.0.
Education News
- Yahoo!
- Education Company News
- Education
Week: The Daily News
- Simpson
Communications - Educational News & Resources
- The USA Ed.Net
Briefs and Washington Ed.Net Briefs are free weekly newsletters sent
to subscribers via e-mail and posted to this web site. Each newsletter
contains a compilation of summaries of important or interesting education
news stories, including the complete source citation.
- AJCU:
Higher Education Report Menu
- The Higher Education
Report is produced by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
(AJCU). It is a newsletter that shares information from the campuses
of the 28 member institutions of the AJCU.
Social Sciences
Statistical and Data Sources
- CIHI/IMC
Webpage
- Center for International
Health Information
- Congressional
District Ranking Book
- Demographics information
compiled for United States congressional districts.
-
Journal of Statistics Education Data Archive
- Contains data files
from articles published in the Journal
of Statistics Education.
- National
Center for Education Statistics
- The National Center
for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for
collecting and analyzing data related to education in the United States
and other nations. Publications includes Digest
of Education Statistics, The
Condition of Education, Projections
of Education Statistics, and National
Assessment of Educational Progress.. See the NCES page on
Data and Survey for additional data sources.
- The
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
- The Roper Center
at the University of Connecticut maintain a large archive of public
opinion surveys, both current and historical. These data sets are
available for purchase through various subscription plans.
- Statistical
Resources on the Web/Education
- University of Michigan
Documents Center's list of education related statistical resources.
- Statistical
Tables on Education
- From the Division
of Statistics of UNESCO.
- 1997
Education at a Glance - Indicators
- Contains summaries
of key results from the 1997 edition of Education at a Glance - OECD
Indicators produced by OECD's Centre
for Education Research and Innovation (CERI). Includes downloadable
tables in Microsoft's Excel spreedsheets format.
- Statistics
and Statistical Graphics Resources
- A mega list of
statistical resources maintain by Michael Friendly of the Psychology
Department of York University in Toronto.
- Statistics
Canada
- Statistics Canada
is required to collect, compile, analyse, abstract and publish statistical
information on virtually every aspect of Canadian society and economy.
- Statistics
on the Web
- This page contains
links to a variety of statistics related resources.
- UCSD
Data Collection
- SSDC Social Science
Data Collection at the University of California San Diego. "The SSDC
is a collection of large numeric datafiles as well as a set of computer
programs that provide easy access to those datafiles through a menu
interface. The web version includes a catalog of the entire collection
as well as pointers to datasets made available through the internet.
Some data will be restricted to UCSD Only."
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