• Test Prep Review -- Free practice tests for GRE, LSAT, MCAT, NCLEX, PRAXIS, etc. Web Resources - Education

    Pew Learning Center and Ellison Library

    Web Resources - Education

    Early Childhood Education ---- Education Data and Research ---- Indexes of Education Sites
    Lesson Plans Online ---- Reading and Language Arts ---- School Safety
    Testing, Evaluation, Standards ---- What's New on the Net for Educators
    Other Useful Sites ---- Job Listings and Career Information ---- Librarian Sites

    Early Childhood Education

  • Child Care Bureau: Research, Data and Systems--from the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
  • Early Childhood Care and Development-- International Resources Addressing the Needs of Children 0-8 and Their Families. Including international initiatives, info on child development theory
  • Early Childhood Educators' and Family Web Corner Teacher Pages--material on child development, early intervention, curriculum, news teaching ideas, links to related sites 
  • Early Childhood Education Online--information on child development, curriculum, professional development.
  • Hall of Early Childhood Education Resource Center--resources for educators, parents, special populations and kids.
  • Index to Early Childhood Education Resources
  • Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Education--a special issues of Future of Children, articles downloadable on acrobat.
  • Montessori Parenting from birth to three
  • READY*SET*READ Early Childhood Learning Kit--Reading readiness activities and reading lists for young learners.
  • WWW.Montessori.Edu--this "International Montessori index" explains the Montessori methods and learning environment, and tells you how to find a Montessori school or start one, provides links to schools and teachers.

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    Education Data and Research

  • 1998 Digest of Education Statistics--in acrobat format.
  • Class Size Reduction and Teacher Quality Initiative.
  • Condition of Education, 1999-- A searchable time series, with 60 different indicators of educational achievement, curriculum, human and financial resources, diversity, educational outcomes.
  • Current Awareness Program--on more than 200 issues in education, supplies recent bibliography. Topics include adult education, bilingual education, school choice, education reform.
  • Department of Education Topics from A to Z--research info from DOE, clickable at a glance, on all kinds of topics--student achievement, statistics, fellowships, and lots more.
  • Encyclopedia of Education Statistics--From the National Center for Education Statistics
  • ERIC/AE Full Text Internet Library--the best full-text books, reports, journal articles, newsletter articles and papers on the Internet that address educational measurement, evaluation and learning theory.
  • Education Resources at CNIDR--the Center for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval.
  • History of Education--a comprehensive set of information, texts, bibliographies, biographical info, links, etc.
  • Impact of Information Technology on Undergraduate Education--a report from the National Science Foundation. Useful, though the format is hard to read.
  • Kids Count Statistical Data--statistics on the physical, social, economic and educational well-being of children.
  • National Center for Education Statistics--THE place to go for any kind of statistics on American education. Also includes longitudinal surveys, educational outcomes data. Select both "Statistics" and "Surveys"--each of them contains extensive info on post-secondary education.
  • The Nation's Report Card -- national assessment of educational progress
  • Peterson's Education Center:K-12: Still under construction, but will be a guide to both public and private elementary and secondary schools in the US.
  • School District Data Profiles, 1990-- Basic demographic and economic data on school districts throughout the country based on the last census.

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    Indexes to Prime Education Sites

  • American School Directory -- the Internet home for all K-12 schools, providing instant access to over 106,000 school web sites.
  • BEST: as in Best Education Sites Today, with timely suggestions for lesson plans.
  • Catholic Education Network--still under construction, with presumably more to come, this service links to Catholic schools on the net, a list-serve for Catholic educators, and related links. Classroom instruction ideas are in the works.
  • Education Indexes, Abstracts, Bibliographies, and Table of Contents Services
  • ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies Education
  • ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading, English and Communication.
  • Federal Resources for Educational Excellence--files created by more than 30 government agencies, searchable, and with a subject index.
  • the Gateway to Educational Resources--browse by subject or search by keyword, grade level, for lesson plans and activities for k-12 subjects.
  • International Montessori Index
  • Internet School Library Media Center
  • Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators--an outstanding index of K-12 sites.
  • PedaGoNet--a much honored site for the sharing of learning resource materials. Includes a chat room and a clip art searcher.
  • Parochial School World Directory
  • School Psychology Resources Online--a guide to info on counseling, behavior disorders, learning disabilities, etc.
  • U Seek--U Find--a guide to top educational sites (including Best Information on the Net).
  • Yahoo Index to Education Links

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    Job Listings and Career Information

  • American School Directory--a guide to the web pages of 106,000 k-12 schools, loaded with information about them.
  • Educational Placement: Jobs for teachers.
  • Teacher Certification Requirements--a state by state listing.

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    Lesson Plans Online

  • Ask ERIC Lesson Plans: Lesson plans browsable by subject complete with objectives, necessary materials and recommended web sites.
  • Awesome Library Lesson Plans: a great site with lesson plans in all disciplines including languages, multiculturalism, P.E. and vocational education.
  • Columbia Education Center's Lesson Plans Lesson plans for Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies and Miscellaneous, each discipline has many plans, broken down by Elementary, Intermediate and High School. Lesson plans are in plain text so they load quickly.
  • Educational Resources & Lesson Plans
  • Internet Education Group: Lesson Plan Place.
  • Lesson Plans incorporating editorial cartoons: An excellent site created by the President of the National Association for Professional Cartoonists and his wife, who is an educator, have created this fabulous and creative site providing lesson plans which incorporate editorial cartoons by nationally acclaimed cartoonists.
  • On-Line Education Inc. A site with web reviews and educators resources, all aimed for incorporation into the classroom.
  • Lesson Plans An index to some of the best lesson plan sites on the web.
  • Lesson Plans Library
  • Lesson Plan Page
  • The Solution Site--offers K-12 teacher-generated lesson plans emphasizing active learning.
  • Teachers NetLesson Plan Exchange--post your net lesson plans on the bulletin board here, and look at what other teachers are doing.

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    Reading and Language Arts

  • America Reads Challenge--from the Dept. of Education, publications including Checkpoints for Progress (reading competencies children should have attained at certain ages) and other aids for improving reading.
  • Book Bytes: columns on books, including extensive, annotated lists of books for the reluctant reader: sports fiction, humor, young adult books, horror, fantasy, romance, read-alouds for kids, and more.
  • Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence--works to identify and develop effective educational practices for linguistic minority students.
  • Children's Literature--book reviews, author & illustrator interviews, teaching materials and more. Access to some of the site is by subscription only.
  • ESL: Articles with vocab and pronunciation for ESL students, by Impact
  • Fry's Readability Graph and How To Use It
  • Handwriting Instruction--ERIC bibliography with links.
  • Helping a Child Learn To Read
  • International Children's Digital Library--a collection of books from 27 cultures in 15 languages.
  • Learning to Read--clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research to promote the reading process and teaching techniques.
  • Literacy and Education Archive.

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    School Safety

  • APA Help Center: Warning Signs of Teen Violence: Courtesy of the American Psychological Association and MTV, this is a guide to the reasons for violence, warning signs, and what to do when you recognize those signs in someone you know. Also has advice on anger management.
  • Behavior Home Page--concerned primarily with managing disruptive behavior. Has texts, bibliography, research on intervention strategies.
  • Center for the Prevention of School Violence
  • Eric Clearinghouse for Urban Education: School Safety--includes full texts of journal articles and research reports.
  • Gang Activity at School: Prevention Strategies
  • Model Initiatives for Controlling Violence in the Schools: Program descriptions and addresses, contact persons.
  • National School Safety Center
  • NHHS Peer Mediation Page: guidelines for developing a peer mediation program in your school.
  • Safe Schools for the 21st Century--still under construction, it now includes an annotated bibliography, a good set of links and a forum; it will include research reports in the future.
  • Sexual Harassment: It's Not Academic--guidelines from the Department of Education about sexual harassment: what it is, how to guard against it, how to file complaints about it.
  • Student Victimization in Schools--survey data from the National Center for Educational Statistics.
  • School Crime & Safety [.pdf]

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    Testing, Evaluation, and Standards

  • Alternative Assessment
  • Consortium for Equity in Standards and Testing (CTEST)--provides teachers, parents, and advocacy groups information on the major issues surrounding testing, assessment, and standards in schools. Includes documents, news articles, and links to major issues in testing and standards, including Proposition 209 in California and the Boston Latin Case.
  • Content Knowledge: Benchmarks and Standards for K-12 Education
  • Developing Educational Standards--an annotated list of internet sites with k-12 educational standards and curriculum framework documents.
  • ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
  • National Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing
  • Yahoo's Guide to Testing Resources
  • Test Prep Review -- Free practice tests for GRE, LSAT, MCAT, NCLEX, PRAXIS, etc.

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    What's New on the Net for Educators?

  • Education Review--online reviews of new books in education.
  • Education World What's New This Week--web site choices every week.

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    Generally Useful Education Sites

  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Appalachian College Association
  • Adolescence Directory OnLine
  • Annotated Bibliography of Education Journals
  • Ask an Expert for Secondary School Educators--this service from the Mining Company enlists its "guides" for the various subject areas to answer teachers' and students' questions.
  • MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences--a complete online encyclopedia with signed articles by scholars.
  • E-Rate--information on and applications for the educational rate for internet access.
  • E-School News--which humbly calls itself "K-12 technology and internet decision makers' #1 news source - on the Web and in print"
  • Education Week--which says its goal is to be "the first place on the Web people come to for information about educational reform, schools, and the policies that guide them." It includes not just the text of the journal, but also background papers, and links to previous stories, on such topics as charter schools, privatization, vouchers, internet, and phonics. The publication does seem to have a bias against public education, however.
  • Learning Strategies for Education Students
  • School Administrators' Site--good annotated links.
  • School Psychology Web Sites--an annotated set of links.
  • Teachers at Work: Internet Tools for Teachers
  • Teaching Tolerance--a curriculum and lesson plans from the Southern Poverty Law Center
  • Urban Education Page--an ERIC sponsored page devoted to the particular administrative and teaching problems of inner city schools.
  • Urban Educator--a newsletter with information, news and strategies for urban educators.
  • Teachers Network provides education resources and contact with other teachers.
  • What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching includes many direct comments from outstanding teachers.

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    Librarian Sites

  • Stumpers-L Archive
  • IAT Infobits
  • Librarian's Online Warehouse
  • LibraryHQ.com

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    All links on this page checked February, 2000.
    Send comments, or suggestions for additional links to David O. Bradshaw