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Selected Web Sites in Education

Associations and Organizations

  • Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD)
    • From the US Department of Education, a listing of over 2900 organizations which provide education-related services. A search engine allows searching by title, subject, state, keyword, and more.
  • Education Week: Organization Links
    • Though you must now register to use some sections of this site, registration is free. From the Research Center part of the site, click on the link to “Organizations” at the left.
  • Educational Associations and Organizations
    • Part of the US Department of Education’s Web site, an alphabetical, annotated, brief list of about 30 key education associations and organizations. For a more complete directory, see Education Resource Organizations Directory, above.
  • Teachers Network
    • “Teachers Network is a nationwide, non-profit education organization that identifies and connects innovative teachers exemplifying professionalism and creativity within public school systems.” The Web site includes the following sections: Lesson Plans, For New Teachers, Online Courses, Grants for Teachers, and more.
  • Yahoo! Education: Organizations
    • More than 3,000 links to educational organizations, organized under 27 different categories

Career Education and Planning

Child Care

Children’s Literature

Colleges and Universities

Distance Education

Educational Software

Educational Technology

Higher Education

  • Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Directory of State Higher Education Agencies
  • Grapevine
    • “Grapevine reports on total state tax effort for higher education.”
  • Higher Education Publications
    • Sponsored by the Association for Institutional Research, this site provides links to about 100 on-line journals and publishers in the field of higher education
  • Higher Education Research Institute
    • Based in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, HERI serves as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in postsecondary education. It is the home of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP), “the nation’s largest and oldest empirical study of higher education”. The CIRP Freshman Survey “is the most widely-used source of information about college and college students in the nation”.
  • Higher Education Systems
    • Part of the World Higher Education Database from the International Association of Universities, a UNESCO-affiliated organization, this site provides links to profiles of higher education systems worldwide.
  • Higher Education: The Cornerstone to New Hampshire’s Prosperity (PDF)
    • A 2005 report on the economic impact of higher education in New Hampshire
  • Measuring Up: The National Report Card on Higher Education
    • “Measuring Up 2006 consists of the national report card for higher education and fifty state report cards. Its purpose is to provide the public and policymakers with information to assess and improve postsecondary education in each state. Measuring Up 2006 is the fourth in a series of biennial report cards.”
  • New Hampshire Higher Education Institutions
    • A 9-page PDF document, including links to institution Web sites.
  • Times Higher Education Supplement
    • “Higher education jobs, news and books for university and college professionals in teaching and research, from The Times (of London”> Higher Education Supplement. You need to subscribe to access full text and other services.”
  • Yahoo! Education: Higher Education

History of Education and Childhood

Home Schooling

Job Postings

  • Use to find public schools or school district addresses and information
  • New Hampshire School Jobs
    • Public school jobs, K-12. A job search tool provided by NEA - New Hampshire
  • Teach for America
    • Teaching in “under-resourced” urban and rural public schools
  • Teacher Jobs
    • This is a commercial placement service offering the ability to match your qualifications and preferences with available positions, for a fee (if a position identified through this service is accepted).
  • Teachers@Work
  • Teachers for Africa Program
    • A program of the International Foundation for Education and Self-Help (IFESH). Participants spend one academic year helping to inmprove education in one of several African countries.
  • Teaching Overseas
    • From the U.S. Department of State
  • Yahoo! Directory: Education Job and Employment Resources
    • American Law Sources Online
      • Links to all on-line sources of American law that are available without charge
    • CataLaw: Education Law
      • “CataLaw is the catalog of catalogs of worldwide law on the Internet. It aids legal research by arranging all indexes of law and government into a uniform, universal and unique metaindex.” This link is to the Education Law gateway section.
    • Code of Federal Regulations
    • Education Law Association
      • The Education Law Association, formerly the National Organization on Legal Problems of Education (NOLPE), “is a nonprofit, non-advocacy organization that promotes interest in and understanding of the legal framework of education and the rights of students, parents, school boards and school employees.”. They publish the annual monograph series YEARBOOK OF EDUCATION LAW and the periodicals SCHOOL LAW REPORTER and ELA NOTES (formerly NOLPE NOTES).
    • Federal Court Locator
      • From Villanova University School of Law
    • FedLaw
      • “Fedlaw has assembled references of use to people doing Federal legal research and which can be accessed directly through ‘point and click’ hypertext connections.”
    • FindLaw
      • A good beginning point for research. “Your guide to all things law on the Internet.”
    • Hieros Gamos Worldwide Legal Directories
      • The largest legal gateway; links to more than 50,000 sites
    • Internet Law Library
      • Formerly U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library; no longer available through U.S. House of Representatives. Includes link to search the U.S. Code.
    • Internet Law Library: Education and the Law
      • A large number of links to key cases and documents relating to education
    • Internet Legal Research Group
      • A categorized index to more than 4,000 select Web sites in 238 nations, islands, and territories, as well as thousands of locally-stored Web pages and downloadable files
    • LawCrawler (the search engine of FindLaw)
    • Legal Information Institute
      • Well-organized site from Cornell Law School
    • New Hampshire Revised Statutes
      • Please note that this online version is not “annotated”. That is, it does not contain the information in the print volumes which follows the text of each statute and contains a detailed history with explanation of amendments, cross references to other statutes, and annotations of NH Supreme Court and NH Federal District court cases relating to the statute. Care should also be taken to compare the online text with the text shown in the separate links to legislative changes by year.
    • New Hampshire Superior Court
    • New Hampshire Supreme Court
    • Nolo Press Self-Help Law Center
    • Special Education Laws
      • This is a section of the Internet Resources for Special Children Web site (see Special Education section below).
    • State Courts — By Jurisdiction
      • From Cornell Law School
    • Student Rights
      • From the American Civil Liberties Union
    • Title IX (Gender Equity in Sports)
    • U.S. Code
      • Access to federal laws through the Web site of the Legal Information Institute
    • U.S. Constitution (from FindLaw site)
    • U.S. Supreme Court
      • Decisions from 1990 to present plus over 600 important historical decisions
    • WashLaw Web
      • Alphabetical list of categories of law-related Web sites, including links to states
    • World Wide Web Virtual Law Library

    Lesson Plans and Resources

    • A&E Classroom Study Guides
    • Anthropology on the Internet for K-12
      • From the Smithsonian Institution
    • Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
      • “Ben’s Guide provides information and activities specifically tailored for educators, parents, and students in K-12. These resources can help teach about our government and how it works.” There is a “Parents and Teachers” section and four sections with information and activities for different grade levels: K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12.
    • Blue Web’n
      • “A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web”
    • Busy Teachers’ WebSite K-12
    • CEC Teacher Resources
      • Includes teacher-developed lesson plans, web guides, and web-based teaching resources. Site created by the Columbia Education Center.
    • CNN Student News — Teacher Resources
    • Core Knowledge - Schools: Lesson Plans
      • Sponsored by Core Knowledge Foundation, based on the idea “that for the sake of academic excellence, greater fairness, and higher literacy, elementary and middle schools need a solid, specific, shared core curriculum in order to help children establish strong foundations of knowledge, grade by grade”. Lesson plans are organized by grade (PS-8), not by subject area.
    • Discovery Education - Lesson Plans(from the Discovery Channel)
    • Education Place Activity Search
      • 400+ original K-8 classroom activities and lesson plans (From Houghton Mifflin’s Education Place Web site)
    • Education World: Lesson Planning Channel
    • Educator’s Reference Desk: Lesson Plans
      • Over 2000 lesson plans written and submitted by teachers
    • EduHound: Everything for Education K-12
      • A large “gateway” site, with links to educational resources organized by subject categories, lesson plans, or “site sets” — collections of topic-based online resources. Also includes links to free clipart, unusual fonts, and more.
    • Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
      • More than 1,500 federally-supported education resources provided by a working group of over 30 federal agencies, in response to an initiative by Pres. Clinton.
    • 4Teachers
      • “4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use.”
    • Gateway to 21st Century Skills
      • Contains over 45,000 Internet lesson plans, curriculum units, and other education resources
    • Global SchoolNet’s Global Schoolhouse
      • Online collaborative projects, communication tools, and professional development resources
    • Homework Center
      • From Multonomah County Library, Oregon. Lots of Web links organized into subject groups.
    • Internet Projects Registry
      • Part of the larger site GlobalSchoolNet (above), the Internet Projects Registry provides a way for students and teachers to exchange ideas through collaborative online learning projects. There are over 100 current projects in progress and over 2,000 archived projects that have been completed. These may be searched for by a variety of criteria, such as subject area or age of children.
    • Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
      • “A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.”
    • Lesson Plans Page
      • Over 3,000 free lesson plans.
    • Library in the Sky
      • From Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWRL). Includes links to over 1,200 educational Web sites.
    • Literacy Web
      • From the University of Connecticut. “The Literacy Web is designed to promote the use of the Internet as a tool to assist classroom teachers in their search for best practices in literacy instruction, including the new literacies of Internet technologies.” Includes activities and classroom resources for all grade levels, K-12, as well as resources for professional development.
    • MarcoPolo — Teacher Resources
      • The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation’s content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines and professionally-developed lesson plans and classroom activities. MarcoPolo Content Partners have produced seven discipline-specific, standards-based Web sites geared primarily toward K-12 teachers and students.
    • McREL Lesson Plans
      • Lesson plans from Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL). Under each subject (e.g. Arts, History, Math), lesson plans are linked with corresponding subject-area standards (from CONTENT KNOWLEDGE: A COMPENDIUM OF STANDARDS AND BENCHMARKS FOR K-12 EDUCATION).
    • Microsoft Lesson Plans
    • More Virtual Field Trips (Book)
      • This 1999 book by Gail Cooper and Garry Cooper has hundreds of web sites, with annotations, grouped under the following chapters: virtual time machine; architectural tours; see the world; down on the farm; mother nature; visual arts; language and performing arts; business and industry; mathematics and logic; science; health, safety, and fitness; people you should know
    • New York Times Learning Network
      • Provides access to hundreds of free lesson plans for grades 6-12, plus a variety of other teacher resources.
    • S.C.O.R.E. CyberGuides: Teacher Guides and Student Activities
      • From Schools of California Online Resources for Education (SCORE), these are “supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature”.
    • Smithsonian Education
      • The “central education website of the Smithsonian Institution”. Includes sections of resources for educators, families, and students.
    • Solution Site
      • “The Solution Site contains K-12 lesson plans that offer teachers from all subject areas a variety of opportunities to use thematic units and student-centered learning activities in the classroom.” The units and lessons contained within this site emphasize active learning. Use the “Find a Unit” section to find lesson plans organized by subject categories (e.g. science, social studies) and/or grade level range.
    • Teacheable Moment
      • From Educators for Social Responsibility Metropolitan Area (New York City) to provide “educators with timely teaching ideas to encourage critical thinking on issues of the day and foster a positive classroom environment”. Topical activities are available for the elementary, middle, or high school level.
    • Teacher Resource Center (from Scholastic, Inc.)
    • Teachers at Work: Internet Tools for Teachers
      • Includes links to the top 3000 reviewed education Web sites, organized into 17 curricular areas. Monthly features Top Ten Web sites. List of 23 “Quality Criteria” useful in evaluating Web sites. Also includes professional development resources. Commercial site; includes both free and fee content.
    • Teachers Helping Teachers
    • Teachers.Net: Lesson Plans
      • A “Lesson Bank” allowing educators to search for, browse, or submit lesson plans.
    • TeacherSource
      • This site, provided by PBS, includes links to over 3,000 free lesson plans and activities.
    • Teaching Media Awareness K-12
      • A section of the Web site of Media Awareness Network (MNet), home to “one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of media education and Internet literacy resources”. This section provides practical teaching units and classroom activities for media education. Focus is on media education in Canada.
    • Teaching with Electronic Technology
    • Gateway to over 100 links relating to the uses of electronic technology in teaching (K-12 and higher)
  • TeachNet: Lesson Plans
    • The section of the Teachers Network.org Web site on lesson plans.
  • Teachnet.com Lesson Plans
    • In addition to lesson plans, this site has a “Teacher-2-Teacher” discussion list focusing on teaching tips and classroom techniques. To access this, first go to Teachnet.com home page.
  • techLearning: Curriculum Resource Links
  • New Hampshire

    Online Journals

    • Education Policy Analysis Archives
      • An online peer-reviewed scholarly journal from the Colleges of Education at Arizona State University and the University of South Florida.
    • From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal
    • Higher Education Publications
      • Sponsored by the Association for Institutional Research, this site provides links to about 100 on-line journals and publishers in the field of higher education
    • Open Access Journals in the Field of Education
      • Direct links to over 200 selected U.S. and international journals in the field of education. The compilers have included only electronic journals which are scholarly, peer-reviewed, available in full text, and accessible without cost.
    • Phi Delta Kappan
      • “PHI DELTA KAPPAN, the professional print journal for education, addresses policy issues for educators at all levels. An advocate for research-based school reform, the KAPPAN provides a forum for debate on controversial subjects. Published since 1915, the journal comes out monthly, September-June.”
    • Times Higher Education Supplement
      • “Higher education jobs, news and books for university and college professionals in teaching and research, from The Times (of London”> Higher Education Supplement. You need to subscribe to access full text and other services.”

    Opinion Pages

      School Directories

    School Reform and Improvement

    • EdWeb: Exploring Technology and School Reform
    • Free Speech Movement (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
      • The key site for primary research materials on the Free Speech Movement, one of the first protest movements to rock college campuses in the 1960s. The site is a joint effort of the Bancroft Library and the non-profit Free Speech Movement Archives. Primary documents from the FSM, the University, the UC Board of Regents, and the State of California are searchable online.
    • National Education Goals Panel
      • “The National Education Goals Panel (NEGP) is a unique bipartisan and intergovernmental body of federal and state officials created in July 1990 to assess and report state and national progress toward achieving the National Education Goals.” The Panel has since been dissolved “pursuant to Congressional mandate”. However, the NEGP Web site is still functional, though it is no longer being maintained. From this site, you can link to the NEGP’s new “Interactive Data Center”.
    • Office of Reform Assistance and Dissemination (U.S. Department of Education)
    • Pathways to School Improvement
      • From the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory (NCREL).
    • ResearchBrief
      • From the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), this Web-based publication began in January, 2003. Every two weeks, ResearchBrief provides an overview of a recent, original research study, including the research questions, data sources, and findings of the study. According to the Web site, “A panel of nationally renowned scholars and practitioners oversees the production of ResearchBrief and helps to ensure the quality of studies reviewed, as well as the relevancy to ASCD members.”
    • School Improvement Program
      • From the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory.
    • School Improvement Research Series
      • Part of the School Improvement Program site of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (see above). Includes: “Topical Syntheses of research findings and bibliographic information on special topics; Close-Ups on specific methods and techniques that can be adopted as a part of school improvement efforts, including statements of research results, examples of practices, and bibliographic information; Snapshots describing exemplary uses of effective schooling practices.”

    School Standards

    • ArtsEdge: The National Arts and Education Information Network
      • Includes the full text of the National Standards for Arts Education, and many other professional resources. Sponsored by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
    • Center for Civic Education
      • Links to standards and curriculum frameworks for civic education
    • Developing Educational Standards
      • A comprehensive site about national, state, and local educational standards. Searches possible by state or subject area; many useful links to national organizations and state education departments. (From Putnam Valley Central Schools, Putnam Valley, New York)
    • Documents About Standards
      • From the U.S. Department of Education
    • MarcoPolo — Standards Alignment
      • The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation’s content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines and professionally-developed lesson plans and classroom activities. All MarcoPolo lessons are designed to support, and are aligned to, national education standards. MarcoPolo Content Partners have produced seven discipline-specific, standards-based Web sites geared primarily toward K-12 teachers and students.
    • McREL Standards Database
      • From the Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory. “A compilation of content standards for K-12 curriculum in both searchable and browsable formats.”
    • Typical Course of Study by Grade Level
      • From World Book, a listing of the typical course of study in the U.S., preschool through grade 12, including the areas of social studies, science, language arts, and mathematics.

    Special Needs/ Special Education

    • Council for Exceptional Children
    • HandSpeak: A Sign Language Dictionary Online
      • Includes video clips showing how specific words are signed
    • Internet Resources for Special Children
      • “The IRSC web site is dedicated to children with disabilities and other health related disorders worldwide.”
    • Internet Special Education Resources
      • “A nationwide directory of professionals who serve the learning disabilities and special education communities.”
    • LD Resources
      • A collection of over 1000 entries on various aspects of learning disabilities.
    • ESL Resources
      • A variety of resources of interest to adult ESL practitioners, from the Center for Adult English Language Acquisition (CAELA) and the Center for Applied Linguistics.
    • School Psychology Resources Online
      • Contains information on school psychology resources for psychologists, parents and educators on various topics, including learning disabilities, ADHD, functional behavioral assessment, autism, adolescence, parenting, psychological assessment, special education, mental retardation, mental health, and more.
    • Special Education Laws
      • This is a section of the Internet Resources for Special Children Web site (see above).
    • Special Education Resources on the Internet
      • Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI) is a collection of Internet accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education.

    Statistics

    • Global Schoolhouse(from Global SchoolNet)
      • Online collaborative projects, communication tools, and professional development resources
    • PBS TeacherSource
      • A Web site from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) designed to assist teachers in using PBS content in the classroom. You may browse resources in 7 subject areas: Arts & Literature, Health & Fitness, Math, Science, Social Studies, Pre K-2, Library Media. “PBS TeacherSource materials are developed by trained and practicing educators.” The site can be customized to connect to programming on a local PBS station.
    • Teachers at Work: Internet Tools for Teachers
      • Includes links to 5000 reviewed education Web sites, organized into 17 curricular areas. Monthly features Top Ten Web sites. List of 23 “Quality Criteria” useful in evaluating Web sites. Also includes professional development resources. Commercial site; includes both free and fee content.
    • World Lecture Hall
      • “Links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver university-level academic courses in any language.” Some course materials are for courses to be delivered over the Internet, some are for students in residence.

    Test Reviews

    • ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation
      • This ERIC Clearinghouse, and all other ERIC clearinghouses were closed by the U.S. Department of Education as of 12-19-03. This link refers you to some of the resources formerly at the Assessment and Evaluation Clearinghouse.
    • ERIC Database(from U.S. Department of Education)
      • Search tips when searching ERIC for test reviews:
      • * Click on Advanced Search
      • * In first search box, type in test name and search this in IDENTIFIERS.
      • * In next search box type: test reviews or test validity or test reliability (and search these in DESCRIPTORS).
      • PSU students, faculty, and staff should search the ERIC database via EBSCOhost. From Library Home Page, click on “Databases” at left, then click on ERIC. Searching ERIC in this manner will provide information about electronic access to full text articles and provide convenient links to print holdings in the library.
    • Test Reviews Online
      • Use this as an online index to the Mental Measurements Yearbooks (available in print in Lamson Library, REF BF176 .B88). The full text of the reviews is NOT available for free online via Test Reviews Online. However, PSU students, faculty, staff, and alums with a PSU computer account may access the Mental Measurements Yearbook database via the MyPlymouth portal and the Library Home Page, under “Databases” at the left. This MMY database provides the full text of test reviews from the 9th Mental Measurements Yearbook (1985) to the present.
    • U.S. Department of Education

    Web Pages from K-12 Schools

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