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ASK ERIC  Department of Education

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally-funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues. 

AskERIC is a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the world. It began in 1992 as a project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology and is now, with the ERIC Clearinghouse, a component of the Information Institute of Syracuse at Syracuse University. Today, AskERIC encompasses the resources of the entire ERIC system and beyond. Got an education question? AskERIC!

Faculty Suggested Sites

• Word Central  Look up words, build your own dictionary, Teacher's Resource Page, much more.

• Scholastic For Teachers  Professional Lesson Plans, Resources, Online Activities, etc.

• LessonPlanz.com Search or browse over 3500 lesson plans to find the teaching resources you need.

• DANTES Subject Standardized Test (DSST)  Especially useful for Success students.

• CLEP  Website for College Level Examination Program.

• www.askjeeveskids.com

• Lighthouse International  The Lighthouse Center for Education is dedicated to building knowledge about the effects of vision impairment and fostering awareness of vision rehabilitation.

• NCATE: The Standard of Excellence in Teacher Preparation  NCATE is the profession's mechanism to help establish high quality teacher preparation. Through the process of professional accreditation of schools, colleges and departments of education, NCATE works to make a difference in the quality of teaching and teacher preparation today, tomorrow, and for the next century.  NCATE is a coalition of 33 specialty professional associations of teachers, teacher educators, content specialists, and local and state policy makers. All are committed to quality teaching, and together, the coalition represents over 3 million individuals.

Early Childhood Education

• Early Childhood Educators' and Family Web Corner Teacher Pages  Material on child development, early intervention, curriculum, news teaching ideas, links to related sites and more.
• Early Childhood Education Online  Information on child development, curriculum, professional development, etc.
• 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  Special issues of Future of Children, articles downloadable on Adobe Acrobat.
• Montessori Parenting from Birth to Three Years Of Age
• READY*SET*READ Early Childhood Learning Kit  Reading readiness activities and reading lists for young learners.
• WWW.Montessori.Edu  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.
  

  Education Data and Research

• 1997 Digest of Education Statistics  Adobe Acrobat format.
• Condition of Education, 1997  Searchable time series, with 60 different indicators of educational achievement, curriculum, human and financial resources, diversity, educational outcomes, and more.
• Current Awareness Program  More than 200 issues in education, supplies recent bibliography. Topics include adult education, bilingual education, school choice, education reform, lots more.
• 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.
• ERIC/AE Full Text Internet LIbrary  Best full-text books, reports, journal articles, newsletter articles and papers on the Internet that address educational measurement, evaluation and learning theory.
• History of Education  Comprehensive set of information, texts, bibliographies, biographical info, links, etc.
• Impact of Information Technology on Undergraduate Education  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  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.
• 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.

• Univ of Kentucky-National Center for Education
  School District Data Profiles, 1990  Basic demographic and economic data on school districts throughout the country.
  

  Indexes to Prime Education Sites

• American School Directory  Internet home for all K-12 schools, providing instant access to over 106,000 school web sites.
• BEST  Best Education Sites Today, with timely suggestions for lesson plans.
• DANTES  (DSST) Subject Standardized Test (Success students).
• 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  From 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  Index of K-12 sites.
• PedaGoNet  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  Guide to info on counseling, behavior disorders, learning disabilities, etc.

• Yahoo Index to Education Links
  

  Job Listings and Career Information

• American School Directory  Guide to the web pages of 106,000 K-12 schools, loaded with information about them.
• Career Connections   From the Council for exceptional children.  The only job bank on the Internet devoted exclusively to special education professionals.
• Educational Placement  Jobs for teachers.

• Teacher Certification Requirements  State by state listing.
  

  Lesson Plans Online

• The Mailbox Companion  You will need to get the User Name & Password from the Library.
• Ask ERIC Lesson Plans  Lesson plans browseable by subject complete with objectives, necessary materials and recommended web sites.
• Awesome Library Lesson Plans  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.
• Internet Education Group  Lesson Plan Place.
• Lesson Plans incorporating editorial cartoons  From 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.

• LessonPlanz.com  Search or browse over 3500 lesson plans to find the teaching resources you need.

  Teachers NetLesson Plan Exchange  Post your net lesson plans on the bulletin board here, and look at what other teachers are doing.
  

  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.
• ESL  Articles with vocab and pronunciation for ESL students, by Impact
• Fry's Readability Graph and How To Use It
• Helping a Child Learn To Read
• Learning to Read  Clearinghouse for the dissemination of reading research to promote the reading process and teaching techniques.

• Literacy and Education Archive.
  

  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
• Safe Schools for the 21st Century  Includes an annotated bibliography, a good set of links and a forum; it will include research reports in the future.
• Student Victimization in Schools  Survey data from the National Center for Educational Statistics.

• Violence and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools: 1996-97--NCES
  

  Testing, Evaluation, and Standards

• Alternative Assessment   The Michigan Electronic Library (MEL), sponsored by the Library of Michigan, is an online information system that provides residents of Michigan with no-charge access to a core set of electronic resources over the Internet. MEL's 'virtual library' is selected and evaluated by librarians and is designed to be a comprehensive electronic information tool for the state's libraries, schools and citizens.
• 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
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
• Illinois Learning Standards  For anybody who wants to know what the state of Illinois wants its kids to have learned at various points in their education.
• National Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing

• Yahoo's Guide to Testing Resources
  

  What's New on the Net for Educators?

• Education World What's New This Week  Web site choices every week.
  

  Generally Useful Education Sites

• Adolescence Directory OnLine
• Annotated Bibliography of Education Journals
• Ask an Expert for Secondary School Educators  From the Mining Company enlists its "guides" for the various subject areas to answer teachers' and students' questions.
• E-School News  K-12 technology and internet info news source.
• 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 an obvious and unfortunate bias against public education, however.
• Internet Law Library: Education  Laws and court cases from all jurisdictions.
• Learning Strategies for Education Students
• School Administrators' Site  Good annotated links.
• School Psychology Web Sites  Annotated set of links.
• Student Gateway to the US Government  From the US Government.
• Teaching Tolerance  Curriculum and lesson plans from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
• Urban Education Page  ERIC sponsored page devoted to the particular administrative and teaching problems of inner city schools.
• Urban Educator  Newsletter with information, news and strategies for urban educators.

Adult Education and Distance Learning Sources

• American Association for Adult and Continuing Education
• Association for Web-Based Learning  Documents and links for theory and instructional design for distance learning using the web, actual sample courses, and suggestions for evaluation of the courses.
• Copyright Clearance Center  Online registration, the title database, and online interaction for requesting academic permissions and online course content service.
• Digital Libraries Initiative  Project by several major research universities to "collect, store and organize the universe of available library information."
• Distance Education  Review of web sites, usenets, and other prime internet sources.
• Distance Education at a Glance  How to create, monitor, and evaluate distance education programs.
• Distance Education Clearinghouse
• Distance Learning: A Guidebook for System Planning and Implementation
• Institute for Higher Education Policy Report on Distance Learning  Adobe PDF format documents and papers on Distance Learning and Higher Education.
• Iowa Database: a Resource for Distance Learning  Info on using the ICN, including a handbook on videoconferencing, ITTC rules, a k-12 demonstration project, and more.
• Journal of Library Services for Distance Education  Online journal addressing a critical problem for distance education programs. Subscription required.
• National Learning Corporation's Career Exam Passbooks  Links to CLEP, DANTES, Career Exams, General Aptitude Test, etc.
• Online Degree Programs  From the Tennessee Board of Regents.
• Project ADEPT  From the Assessment of Distance Education Pedagogy and Technology.
• Resources for Distance Learning Library Resources

Loans, Grants and Philanthropy Information

• Council for Aid to Education  Info on private voluntary support of educational institutions, including 45 graphs on trends in philanthropy.
• E-Student Loan  Compare loans and apply online with major lenders.
• Fin Aid  Source for sorting out the loan process (i.e. filling out complex forms).
• Foundation Center  Includes a directory of grant makers on the net, directory of non-profit and government financing sources, and retrieve articles from Philanthropy News Digest. Also, info on fundraising trends and strategies.
• Funding Sources for Women
• Grants and Awards  GPO's Guide to every government agency that awards research grants.
• National Center for Charitable Statistics: Non-Profit Fact Sheets
• Non-Profit Organizations FAQ
• Philanthropy  Links put together by Indiana University, including grants, fund-raising, service learning, statistics, journals, etc.
• Philanthropy Journal
• Pistol Pete's Research Ready Referral  Guide for faculty to planning research, writing research proposals, planning budgets, obtaining funding. While some of this is specific to funding opportunities at Oklahoma State, much of it is applicable across the board.
• Scholarships  Big scholarship search site.
• U. of Illinois Grant-Getting Page  Links to non-profit sponsors of research and to government funding sources.
• William and Mary's Guide to Grant Information  While much is specific to internal grants at W&M, the hints and sample proposals and links to external funding sources are useful for any college or university.
• Wired Scholar  Explains all the various financial aid options and ways to pay.

• Yahoo's Index of Grant-Making Foundations on the Web
  

  Higher Education Policy and Statistics

• Acceptable Use Policies for Internet  Sample college internet use policy statements.
• Apple In Higher Education  Apple Corp. information site, including projects, programs and a learning community for interactive learning.
• CAUSE Information Resources for Management in Higher Education  Includes a free job posting/job searching service for higher education, and an institutional database that allows you to compare your institution to others on any parameter.
• Department of Education Topics from A to Z  Research info from DOE, clickable on student achievement, statistics, fellowships, etc.
• Disabilities and Higher Education, by way of EASI
• Disability Access Information and Support  Research in the area of postsecondary education and disability.
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
• HEPROC  Resources for Higher Education. Provides forums, databases, interaction with other educators interested in improving higher education. Includes archives on learning assessment and faculty development.
• Index: Internet Resources for Institutional Research
• National Center for Education Statistics  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.
• National Center for Post-Secondary Improvement  Research organization.
• North Central Association Commission on Institutions of Higher Education
• Plan Ahead  Newsletter from the Society for College and University Planning, publishers of Planning for Higher Education. In addition to news items, bibliography of current articles and books, and conference announcements, it provides links to other universities' online planning documents.
• Society for College and University Planning  Includes articles from its journal, Planning for Higher Education

• Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education  Contains data, research, on topics such as tuition, distance education, student migration, more.
  

  Indexes to Higher Education Sources

• Higher Education Internet Service
• Higher Education Sources: Yahoo index
• University Links  Links to university pages by alpha and by type, e.g. Catholic colleges, med schools, community colleges, distance learning programs, et al.

  Managing and Exploiting Internet Technology

• Impacts of Information Technology  Some useful thoughts on how our new technologies will change our society and our ways of doing business. Not oriented toward education specifically, but useful nonetheless.
• Impact of Information Technology on Undergraduate Education  A report from the National Science Foundation. Useful, though the format is hard to read.
• Iowa Database: a Resource for Distance Learning  Using the ICN for distance learning, including a handbook on videoconferencing, ITTC rules, a k-12 demonstration project, and more.
• The Technology Source  "The Technology Source is to provide thoughtful, illuminating articles that will assist educators as they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools in teaching and in managing educational organizations. A good site to keep up with new developments".
  

  Support Services

• Academic Advising Resources  From the National Academic Advising Association. Intended as a starting point for academic advising. Includes faculty handbooks for student advising, and student handbooks, from various institutions.
• Academic Employment Network  For jobs at all levels, college and k-12, with free searching for jobseekers. Employers pay for listings. Currently it lists mostly college level positions.
• American Association of College Registrars and Admissions Officers
• College Catalogs  Full text of current and past college catalogs from American colleges and universities. Requires Adobe viewer, and will only work from a computer on campus.
• Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention
• Hire-Ed  Hire-Ed is a FREE job search web site for people seeking employment in the fields of student affairs, college student personnel, student personnel services, higher education administration, and counseling. Hire-Ed provides internet links to over 700 college and university Human Resources/Personnel web sites.
• National Pollution Prevention Center for Higher Education  Resource for campuses that want to be part of the solution rather than part of the problem.
• Student Affairs Journal  

  Miscellaneous Other Useful Sites

• CampusSafety.Org  College and university campus safety information online; includes crime statistics and laws, campus police websites, and victim resources.
• Check Your E-Mail from a Web Browser  Travelers can check their e-mail here. The software's author assures that your account name and password are not retained.
• College Quarterly  Full texts of articles on improving education and services to students.
• Women in Higher Education  Subscription based newsletter, but site includes recent articles, current issue, and career connections.
• SallieMae  Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA).
  

Church and State

• Center on Children and the Law  From the American Bar Association.
• The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State  Including historical information, the legal heritage and evolution of the controversial principle.

• Church and State and Public Education  Links to court decisions and other relevant sites.
  

Education Reform

• Charter Schools  Reports and position papers on charter schools, school choice and educational reform.
• Charter Schools  Analysis of policy issues from Policy.Com, which every week tackles a different social issue and examines the pros and cons.
• Charter Schools Research  Includes full texts of various reports, bibliographies, forums, list servers, and a direct link for ERIC searches.
• Condition of Education, 1996  A searchable time series, with 60 different indicators of educational achievement, curriculum, human and financial resources, diversity, educational outcomes, and more.
• Content Knowledge  Standards and Benchmarks for k-12 Education
• Goals 2000 Legislation and Related Items
• Guide to Math and Science Reform Initiatives  Searchable index of projects, with project goals, parameters, funding, and contact persons.
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
• National Education Goals Panel
• National Skills Standards Board

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