101 Top College, University and Scholarship Pages - The Colleges, College Scholarships and Financial Aid Page is designed to offer college bound
students, parents, and counselors easy access to information on colleges and universities throughout the United States, free college scholarship and financial aid searches, SAT and ACT test preparation tips, and more.
AEMS: Asian Education Media Service - "Our mission is to promote understanding of Asian cultures and peoples and to assist teachers at all levels, from elementary schools to colleges and universities, and other individuals and groups, in learning and teaching about Asia."
American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) - access to the addresses, phone
numbers, and Web sites of some 2,000 community colleges
in the United States, the AACC site also includes a wealth of
information on all aspects of two year colleges, including
historical background, recent news items, relevant
legislative issues, statistics, events calendar, job openings,
grants, and more.
Back to School - Get a highly visual glimpse into the way education is adapting to the Web courtesy of the Texas A&M University Department of Geology.
offers up-to-date buying advice and information on everything from
the newest computers and electronics to sheets, bath towels,
and other basics to the most reliable new and used cars.
This guide helps both students and their parents find the best
of necessities for high school and college.
BigChalk.com - Teachers, parents, and students can find a wide range of online support at this site including homework help, research tips, and study aids.
Biology Teachers... Unplugged! - meeting place for science teachers and students who want to exchange ideas, experiments, demos, and stories about life in the trenches.
Blackboard.com - "At Blackboard.comSM, you can teach online for free, take distance-learning courses, utilize 239 discipline-specific resource centers and customize them to match your own classes, share tips and information with other online teachers and students, and much more."
Brookings Brown Center on Education Policy - "The Brown Center on Education Policy conducts research on topics in American education, with a special focus on efforts to improve academic achievement in elementary and secondary schools."
COOL - College Opportunities On-Line - COOl is your direct link to over 9,000 colleges and universities in the United States. If you are thinking about a large university, a small liberal arts college, a specialized college, a community college, a career or technical college or a trade school, you can find them all here.
CEA - Travelabroad.com - Cultural Experiences Abroad was founded in 1996 to provide international education opportunities for U.S. and Canadian college students of all language levels and majors. Today, we send thousands of students on study abroad programs at 20 universities in eight countries including Australia, Costa Rica, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and Spain.
Campus Program - access to over 50,000 US/Canadian university and college program department sites covering over 300 fields of study.
Campus Security Statistics - Searchable database allowing users to browse records of reported criminal offenses at over 6000 U.S. colleges and universities. The database contains records for 1997-99 and may be browsed by region, state, city, type of institution, instructional program, and number of students.
CampusTours.com - clearinghouse for virtual tours and campus maps
Class.com - Class.com is fully accredited Internet-based independent study high school where students can earn High School Diploma.
College Admissions - The Mining Company - a source of information on college admissions, college applications, financial aid , testing, college search, and college selection.. for your reference page
College and University Rankings - Annotated guide to online college ranking services, a short list of print ranking
services, a longer bibliography of articles concerning the utility of college rankings,
and links to a few sites regarding recent controversy over rankings
College Board Online - Standardized test and financial aid information, career searches, college searches, and much more.
College Club - e-mail, voicemail, chat, personal web pages, student discounts, and Dr. Lovejoy.
College Edge - Offers a powerful college search tool, useful links, and advice and guidance from an expert college panel.
CollegeJournal - "Prepare for a career with news and information from The Wall Street Journal and search thousands of entry-level and internship job listings."
CollegeNET - Internet Guide to Colleges and Universities
Colleges, College Scholarships, and Financial Aid Page - an online directory of college and university admissions office email addresses and telephone numbers, college scholarship and financial aid office email addresses, and links to the home pages and online applications of more than a thousand colleges and universities.
CollegeView.com - features a virtual guidance office and college search function
Digest of Education Statistics, 2001 - The Digest of Education Statistics provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of education from prekindergarten through graduate school. Topics in the Digest include: the number of schools and colleges; teachers; enrollments; graduates; educational attainment; finances; federal funds for education; employment and income of graduates; libraries; technology; and international comparisons. Note: Adobe Acrobat Reader required
Digital Classroom - "Welcome to the Digital Classroom! To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources."
Digital Dissertations - Welcome to ProQuest Digital Dissertations! As a visitor, you will be able to freely access the most current two years of citations and abstracts in the Dissertation Abstracts database.
EdHelper.com - A teacher oriented education directory, database and search engine that currently has lesson plans, WebQuests, file downloads and other resources.
Educating.net - Education search engine for homeschooling, K-12, traditional or distance
learning university degrees, college scholarship assistance, references,
electronic libraries, continuing education, professional re-training, fun
learning, homework help, and teacher resources.
Education Index - an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily.
EducationNews.org - "The World's Leading Source of Education News 7 Days a Week"
Education Planet - "Education Web Guide helps teachers, students and parents to quickly and safely find over 110,000 quality educational resources, including top Web sites, software, videos and supplies to maps, news and books as well as more than 16,000 lesson plans."
Educational Testing Service Network - definitive information about college and graduate school admissions and placement tests, with sample test questions, test preparation, and test registration.
The Educator's Reference Desk - Through this site you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Education-related resources from forty-nine federal government agencies are
featured at this searchable site, developed in response to a 1997 Net Day request
from President Clinton for federal projects and materials "that would enrich the
Internet as a tool for teaching and learning."
Free University - The mission of the Free University Project on the Internet is to
produce directly, or through links, guided independent study
materials that can lead to college credit by examination.
Free Application for Federal Student Aid - Are you considering attending a college or career school? Which one to attend is one of the most important decisions you need to make. Another is how you're going to pay for your education. To help you, the U.S. Department of Education offers a variety of student financial aid programs. This site helps you to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
FunBrain.com - "The Internet's #1 Education Site for K-8."
Gateway to Educational Materials - "The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet."
Global Classroom - a system designed to empower teachers, authors, instructors and trainers to securely deliver educational content, courses and lessons to students throughout the world via the Internet.
Global Learning Online - educational site for teachers on global and development education.
Google's University Search - Site enables you to narrow your search to a specific university website. Try it for things like admissions information, course schedules, or alumni news. To get into your target school, just click the name in the alphabetical listing.
GradSchools.com - world-wide index of graduate and post-graduate programs
GRE Online - the official site for those about to take the Graduate Record Examination, the standardized test used by graduate schools to determine whether you retained anything after college.
Guide to Independent UK Boarding Schools, The - information about boarding schools in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Also included is information about the UK educational system and the availability of financial assistance
Homeschool Social Register - Over 30,000
pages for most towns and cities in U.S., Canada, Australia, and New
Zealand, with other countries coming soon. Hundreds of links to
support groups and other homeschool resources.
Home-School World - comprehensive site by Practical Home-Schooling magazine.
Kidport - "Kidport provides a unique, multi-step program to teach K-8 students thinking and learning skills. Kidport also provides math, science, social studies and language arts interactive education modules and reference materials."
Kids Can Learn - Providing the educational materials and services that parents and teachers need to help their children and students become happy, effective, and highly motivated students!
Learning Disabilities Online - "an interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and children."
The Learning Page - "The Learning Page provides free, downloadable worksheets and lesson plans for teachers and parents of elementary level schoolchildren. There are hundreds of pages in theme-based and basic skills categories."
Mapping Your Future - This site is sponsored by a group of guaranty agencies who participate in the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP). They are committed to providing information about higher education and career opportunities. Mapping Your Future's mission is to counsel students and families about college, career, and financial aid choices through a state-of-the-art, public service web site.
MIT OpenCourseWare Project - This Massachusetts Institute of Technology site allows you free access to the syllabus, lecture notes, exams and answers, and in some cases, even videotaped lectures of 32 MIT courses. By the 2006-2007 school year, MIT plans to publish the course materials for virtually all 2,000 its graduate and undergraduate courses. (Note: no course credits are available online).
NOVA Online: Teachers - "Welcome to NOVA's new Teachers site. To help serve you better, we have created a searchable database of all our educational materials, an ever-growing collection of more than 500 separate resources."
PBS TeacherSource - "PBS and its member stations are standing by with extensive high-quality and time-saving tools that can help you make the most of your teaching. PBS TeacherSource makes it easy to locate and use the best television and Web resources available."
Plagiarism - "An organization dedicated
to assuring academic work originality and maintaining high
standards of ethics by providing institutes of learning with
an easy means of deterring and detecting plagiarism."
Planetpals Earthzone - EARTHZONE,home of the PLANETPALS; a children's interactive
web site with lots of freebies and lots
of fun! A PLANETPALS free card game, free recycle kits,
free coloring book, free contest, an
interactive quiz, click and stick email stickers, free email
greetings, crafts, kids club and much
more!
Planning for College - Sometimes the toughest part of planning something is just figuring out where to start. At this site by Collegeboard.com, you'll find useful information about your academic, college, and career options.
SchoolMatch - Looking for a school? Find a school/school system anywhere throughout the US.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth
Student Center, The - An organization for college students, high school students, and teenagers.
Student Financial Assistance - The Student Financial Assistance programs are the largest source of student aid in America, providing over $60 billion a year in grants, loans, and work-study assistance. At this site you'll find help for every stage of the financial aid process, whether you're in school or out of school.
Student Guide - Resource on student financial aid from the U.S. Department of Education. It covers the Department's major aid programs, including Pell Grants, Stafford Loans, and PLUS Loans.
Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse - A resource for prospective teachers seeking jobs, and for school districts and states seeking qualified teachers.
Teaching and Learning on the World Wide Web - a searchable, dynamic collection of sites where the web is used for more than just surfing; these are places where teachers are using it in the context of their instruction.
USA Education Report Card - Site is the first state-by-state report card of higher education with grades on performance in five categories: preparation, participation, affordability, completion, and economic and civic benefits.
World Wide Learn _ A directory of courses, classes, tutorials, workshops and degree programs offered exclusively online and available to adult learners worldwide.
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