Education Web Sites

Provides general information, conferences, publications and links for adult education.

Assessment of literacy among adults (ages 16 and up) living in U.S. households and prisons.

Improves practices and informs teaching in the educational programs that serve adults with limited literacy and English language skills, and those without a high school diploma, as well as increased the research base on adult learning and literacy. By NCSALL.

Meta-site for teachers, librarians, parents and students to preview selected art education links. By James Madison University.

Links divided by period. By Sweet Briar College.

Serves as a fine art forum and resource directory. By Mississippi State University.

Award Winning, Highly Recommended Art Lesson Plans and Art Education Website for Teachers, Parents, Scouts, and Group Leaders. Free Art Resources, Art Projects, Art Expert Advice, Teacher Exchange, and More.

Offers free, standards-based teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.

Links to arts education sites, including lesson plans, activities, and curriculum resources.

Click on “Explore and Learn” and “Educational Resources” on the side bar for online resources

Created by the nation's governors and business leaders, Achieve helps states raise academic standards and achievement so that all students graduate ready for college, careers, and citizenship

Devoted to world's best practice in student assessment in higher education, and related topics: here you'll find links to online articles, books, journals, and other relevant information.

Conducts evidence based research, provides tools, assessments, and report systems that improves assessment, evaluation, technology and learning. By UCLA.

Promotes the best resources and provide balanced information concerning educational assessment, evaluation and research methodology.

General, international and mental health sites.

FCAT, administered to students in Grades 3-11, consists of criterion-referenced tests (CRT) in mathematics, reading, science, and writing, which measure student progress toward meeting the Sunshine State Standards (SSS) benchmarks.

A collection of assessment rubrics and graphic organizers that may be helpful to you as you design your own.

• Advance the science of measurement in the field of education
• Improve measurement instruments and procedures for their administration, scoring, interpretation, and use
• Improve applications of measurement in assessment of individuals and evaluations of educational programs

The Nation's Report Card is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what Americas students know and can do in various subject areas.

System for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP and WWW. StatLib started out as an e-mail service and some of the organization still reflects that heritage. We hope that this document will give you sufficient guidance to navigate through the archives. For your convenience there are several sites around the world which serve as full or partial mirrors to StatLib

For people involved in applied social research and evaluation. You'll find lots of resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods. Some highlights of what is available:”

Designed for use by those interested in the theories and criticism used to analyze children's literature. It is not a resource for book reviews in the represented periodicals, nor is it a source for the full-text of the articles. The annotations are, so far, almost all written by Lisa R. Bartle, and may be cited and used for purposes of scholarship and education.

Includes reviews of great children's books, classroom activities, lesson plans, and professional topics.

Helps librarians, teachers, child care providers and others navigate the abundance of choices to locate the best books possible to meet their needs. By the University of Wisconsin.

Lists resources related to books for children. By the University of Calgary.

Offers abstracts of over 5000 children's picture books; search capabilities for over 950 keywords, including topics, concepts, and skills which describe each book; and weblinks for keywords so one can integrate up-to-date content knowledge with the picture book resources. By Miami University.

Creates a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed awards. By Lisa Bartle.

The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to create a digital library of international children's books...The mission of the ICDL is to select, collect, digitize, and organize children's materials in their original languages and to create appropriate technologies for access and use by children 3-13 years old.

Links to children’s literature information across the web. By VanCamp, Ball State University.

Lists essential children’s literature resources from around the globe.

A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring 45 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, and over 1,400 illustrations. Discover over 1,500 folk & fairy tales from around the world here.

Provides a place for sharing ideas and information with those interested in children’s and young adult literature.

Searchable web database of books, articles, conference papers and reports on international education.

Advances knowledge about the complex realities of higher education in the contemporary world. By Boston College.

Search by word or country then go to the education section. By the Library of Congress.

Browse by country, topic or education indicator, this information network on education in Europe.

Links to sites maintained by ASHE Council on International Higher Education. By ASHE.

Services as a programs portal, provides quick links, research and resources for international education

Provides international benchmarks and date through comparative research and assessment projects.

Integrated database offering more than 30.000 references on higher education systems, administration, planning and policy, costs and finances, evaluation of higher education, issues related to staff and students, cooperation, mobility and equivalences of degrees, curricula, teaching methods and learning. By UNESCO.

Specializes in contents, methods and structure of education. It builds networks to share expertise on curriculum development in all regions of the world and aims to introduce modern approaches in curriculum design and implementation, improve practical skills and promote informed dialogue at regional and international levels. By UNESCO.

Home page for the Association of International Educators.

Browse by topic, country for department to find statistics, publications, documents and new releases.

Links electronic resources from around the world. By the Library of Congress.

Provides official information assistance for anyone seeking information about U.S. education and for U.S. citizens seeking authoritative information about education in other countries. By USNEI.

Home page for all UNESCO education activities.

Provides bibliographic records and full-text of UNESCO documents, publications and periodicals.

By University of Albany.

Defines copyright and fair use for teachers.

Provides basic information and answers to frequently asked questions about copyright, publications, registrations, licensing, laws and policy.

Includes the top 5% web sites in education.

Lists outstanding web sites arranged by subject, grade level and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities and projects.

Offers lesson plans created and contributed by teachers who've used them successfully in their classrooms and web-based teaching resources created as part of the ECHO projects abroad. By Columbia Education Center.

Offers free teaching and learning resources from federal agencies.

Places thousands of lesson plans and other teaching materials at your fingertips. By GEM.

Find peer reviewed online teaching materials, discipline expertise, and online curricula.

Lists sites for students, teachers and parents, grades 3-12.

Promotes the creation and provision of high quality, economical distance education programs and services to diverse audiences.

Distance Education related sites and sources. By Louisiana State University.

Brings together distance education information from Wisconsin, national, and international sources. By the University of Wisconsin.

Contains categorized links with brief descriptions to Internet resources that I have found helpful in work as a course designer in the fields of continuing and distance education. By Penn State University.

Develops and promotes practices designed to improve educational opportunities for all young children. By Western Illinois University.

Offers a comprehensive and easily searchable collection of more than 10,000 resources from the many disciplines related to child care and early education. To find the most current Reports & Papers, Fact Sheets & Briefs, Executive Summaries, Datasets, and Instruments & Measures, conduct a search or browse Recently Added Resources

Designed to assist policy makers, program managers, and practitioners in their efforts to promote the healthy growth and integral development of young children. By Worldbank.

Provides lesson plans, professional development, technology integration, administration, and school issues in early childhood education. By Education World.

Provides teaching resources and lesson plans that have been developed by primary classroom teachers.

Focuses on enhancing the cognitive, social, and emotional development of children from birth through age eight. By NCEDL.

Provides numerous learning activities on a wide variety of topics for preschool education.

Leads discussions, share research and information and demonstrate best practices regarding technology so it can be used to benefit children aged 0-8 years.

Provides an overview of education law, federal and state material sources, other resources and related topics.

Findlaw, owned by Westlaw, provides links to primary and secondary authorities, and to other law-related websites. Link is to education law subject page.

Covers the area of education law, student rights and the privitization movement.

Originally built and maintained by offices of the U.S. House, it has now been modified and hosted by successors.

Annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online.

Acquires, indexes and abstracts resources relating to K-12 educational management. By the University of Oregon.

Helps state leaders shape policy on educational issues in the 50 states.

Provides information about IEL programs, resources and publications.

Educates academic decision makers to be leaders for sustained, integrated institutional change that significantly improves student learning.

Lists educational media standards.

Provides information on web pages, computer technology, and a variety of technology in educational sites.

Links for books, reviews, censorship, copyright, information literacy, lesson plans, and general library media information.

Annotated links for counseling discussion groups maintained by California State University Northridge.

Arranged by topic and categories, this serves as a psychoeducational resource center.

Lists updated sites of interest to educational psychology. By Valdosta.

List of disability related resources. By West Virginia University.

Provides internet resource, by category, helpful to counselor educators. Oklahoma State University.

Supports the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

Advances higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

Includes information and communication services, technology watch, and support for the Swiss Virtual campus program.

Attempts to maintain the most up-to-date information available on the topic of technology planning.

Informs and educates K-12 senior-level district and school administrators, technologists, and tech-savvy educators within districts, schools, and classrooms to improve and advance the learning process through the use of technology.

Lists resources, publications, discussions of hot topics and events on learning and technology for school teachers.

Provides you with informative, sometimes intimate, accounts of colleagues who have agreed to share with others their encounters with using technology in their classes. By the University of North Carolina.

Links to free technology tutorials for teachers.

Promotes and supports in the global community the optimal education and development of children, from birth through early adolescence, and nfluences the professional growth of educators and the efforts of others who are committed to the needs of children in a changing society.

Five main categories of information: family/parenting, education/learning, typical child development, health/mental health, and resources/recreation. By Tufts University.

Provides useful and timely information that will enhance knowledge of elementary and secondary education programs and issues. By the DOE.

By ALA.

Provides resources for modern foreign languages.

Internet’s meeting place for ESL and EFL teachers and students around the world.

Lists internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English. By ACRL.

Features lesson plans, teaching tips, downloads, discussion topics, and classroom resource picks.

Offers web sites with activities and resources where one can practice reading/listening to texts intended for native speakers. By Intensive English Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contains articles, research papers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas & links on English as a second language .

Contains links to resources for teachers and students at all levels of education.

Provides policy and planning for languages in the U.S. By the University of Maryland.

Seeks improve the nation's capacity for teaching and learning foreign languages by providing resources, research, material development and teacher training. By the University of Hawaii.

Offers programs and initiatives, reports and resources for children with limited English proficiency, immigrant children for a high level of attainment of the English language. By DOE.

Helps adults build the basic skills for life long learning.

Peer reviewed, freely distributed academic journal for ESL.

2007 Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language.

Lists resources for writing, grammar, vocabulary, reading, TOEFL and activities. By the University of Washington.

Lists state laws, organizations, program options, statistics, and summer opportunities for Florida’s gifted students.

Focuses on the needs of students with exceptionally high academic abilities. By John Hopkins University.

Contains online resources, research and educational links. By the University Connecticut.

Serves as a consensus leader on key higher education issues and seeks to influence public policy through advocacy, research, and program initiatives. By ACE.

Source of resources for higher education in the 21st century. By AACU.

By Stanford University.

By the University of Wisconsin.

Covers a variety of topics including the outcomes of postsecondary education, leadership development, faculty performance, federal and state policy, and educational equity. By UCLA.

Serves as a clearinghouse of information resources for improving our understanding of higher education in the US and around the world.

Source for news, opinion and jobs for all of higher education.

Promotes public policies that enhance Americans' opportunities to pursue and achieve high-quality education and training beyond high school.

Free online course material from accredited institutions around the world. By the University of Texas, Austin.

Devoted to "promot[ing] the teaching of tourism, leisure and related subjects" in Eurpoe.

Links from the accrediting body and "global advocate of hospitality and tourism education for schools, colleges, and universities offering programs in hotel and restaurant management, foodservice management and culinary arts.

Links from a division of the American Hotel & Motel Association devoted to "delivering quality hospitality education, training and professional certification that serves the needs of hospitality schools and industries worldwide.

Links to useful resources for the hospitality industry and education. By the University of Central Florida.

Links to association, culinary schools, hospitality programs, and other educational resources.

Contains links to international schools, colleges and universities related to hospitality, culinary, restaurant, and tourism. By International Guild of Hospitality and Restaurant Managers.

Resources to use in secondary language arts. By the University of Vermont.

Categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.

Provides lesson plans and activities for language arts K-12. By Education World.

Best of the Humanities on the Web brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom. By National Endowment for the Humanities.

Designed as a national writing project for teachers.

Offers online handouts covering writing, research, grammar, and MLA and APA style.

Contain essays, syllabi, bibliographies, and other resources for teaching the multiple literatures of the United States. By Georgetown University.

Co-op where writers, editors and scholars publish. By Iowa State University.

Extensive directory of academic literary resources on the web. By Jack Lynch, Rutgers University.

Categories of sites include general guides, bibliographies, individual authors, library catalogs, dictionaries, discussions, periodicals, style guides, electronic texts, and individual authors. By Louisiana State University.

Links to Literature in English for researchers and teachers, searchable by time periods, topics, and categories. By the University California, Santa Barbara

Advances professional interests of marriage and family therapists.

Links to marriage and family resources of various types. By Trinity University.

By Syracuse University.

Provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12, although teachers of other levels may find these materials helpful. By By Cornell University. By Cornell University.

Considered to be the best resources for teaching math at all levels. This space is not only for teachers, but has also been built in part by teachers. By Drexel University.

Links are categorized by subject. By Florida State University.

Provides resources and professional development opportunities for math teachers.

Resource list by grade range and topic.

Provides a wealth of resources for schools, districts, educators, parents, and public school advocates working to raise achievement for all students in the middle grades.

Provides practical resources to help middle level leaders improve their schools; offers relevant, job-embedded professional development for new and experienced middle level leaders; and articulates the voice of middle level leaders. By the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

Dedicated to those in the middle grades.

Valuable resources for music educators and students of all areas and educational levels.

Provides a wide variety of information for music educators.

Provides a wealth of online information for anyone interested in music education. By Children's Music Workshop.

Lists music links in broad categories. By Indiana University.

Lists links alphabetically, resource provided, type of site, or country.

Provides weekly education news.

Provides links to some of the best education web links.

Provides research guides, lesson plans, question archives, and searching GEM. By the University of Syracuse.

Offers directories of schools and colleges by district and name along with press releases, publications, statistics, and employment opportunities. By Florida DOE.

Creates an operational framework to provide the nation's teachers with "one-stop, any-stop" access to substantial, but uncataloged, collections of Internet-based educational materials available on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites. GEM provides access to high quality Internet lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources.

Reports policies on federal financial aid for education, collects and disseminates research, focuses national attention on key educational issues, and promotes equal access to education. By the DOE.

Collects, screens, and identifies studies of the effectiveness of educational interventions. By DOE.

Provides educational materials, services and coursework to those interested in the language arts. By Indiana University. By Indiana University.

Includes web resources and Reading Online, hundreds of articles on reading education.

Develops tools and guidance to strengthen the teaching and learning of reading in adult education and literacy programs.

Laubach Literacy helps adults and their families acquire literacy practices and skills to improve their daily lives.

Find advice, articles and booklists.

Serves as an innovative Internet community for school psychologists.

Serves as a links "map" that provides quick access to relevant resources mental health in schools on the internet. By UCLA.

Research learning disabilities, ADHD, functional behavioral assessment, autism, adolescence, parenting, psychological assessment, special education, mental retardation, mental health, and more.

Provides today’s resources for tomorrow’s psychologists.

Creates innovative learning experiences for young learners interested in space.

Interactive biology site for curious kids.

Links to programs and activities of particular interest to K-14 environmental education students and teachers. University of Arizona.

International space station.

Focuses on the science teacher, web resources, and the teaching environment.

Arranged by high school and college resources and K-8 resources. By St. Ambrose University.

By the Internet Public Library.

Online community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education.

Focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content.

Explore a topic by choosing a category.

Information on middle and high school leadership.

Coordinates national resources, offers technical assistance, and disseminates information related to secondary education and transition for youth with disabilities in order to create opportunities for youth to achieve successful futures.

Website provides useful and timely information to enhance their knowledge of elementary and secondary education programs.

Contains annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.

Links for history, newsletter, book reviews.

Provides access to the very best Web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists in the social sciences.

Gathered lesson plans and resources from the Internet which social studies teachers will find useful. By California State University.

Gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students. By the US Archives.

Designed for K-12 social studies teachers and students. It also has information and topics that are useful to pre-service social studies instructors and students. By the University of Indiana.

Provides resources and professional development opportunities for those who work with exceptionalities.

Information on learning disabilities and ADHD.

Offers background information, fact sheets and helpful links to resources and organizations on a broad range of learning disability issues.

Gateway to the wonders of astronomy and space science for students, educators and the public. By the University of California, Berkeley.

Provides collection of Internet accessible information resources of interest to those involved in the fields related to Special Education.

Dedicated to improving results for infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities ages birth through 21 by providing leadership and financial support to assist states and local districts. By the DOE.

Provides information and resources on certification and credentialing, professional education and conferences, grants and research initiatives, health and fitness information, news within the industry as well as links to regional chapters.

Provides links to biomechanics societies, journals, orthopaedics, and other aspects of biomechanics.

Links for Coaching/Sports, General PE, Associations, Health/Nutrition, Sports medicine/Kinesiology, and Sports centers. By Texas A&M.

By National Library of Medicine, Medline Plus.

USDA information center that provides information on fitness, sports, and sports nutrition and links to other web sites.

Maintains a collection of links to other good Web sites on sport and fitness topics as well as academic and professional subjects.

Supports and disseminates research-based knowledge and its practical application to improve athletic performance and fitness, offers free online training videos, free podcasts, and links to other websites.

Premier Web site for health and physical education teachers, parents, and students. Our goal is to provide the latest information about developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.

Brings together the websites which will assist the serious sports researcher, kinesiology librarian, sport information specialist, college/university student and faculty. By the University of Calgary

Provider of sports information and research.

Search the vast collection of sports related web links.

Links for the basics, nutrition, specific conditions, research, journal articles, directories, organizations, statistics and links for children, teenagers, and women as well. By the National Institute of Health, National Library of Medicine and Medline Plus.

Offers information on education, organizations and topics about sports medicine.

Features a 360 degree full body model for investigation of human anatomy and physiology. By Argosy University.

Focuses on sports issues that affect women.

Provides tools, activities, research, forums, and more. By ALPS, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Set up as an internet education village.

Provides discussion lists, bulletin boards, and links on a wide variety of subjects of interest to the elementary teacher.

Identifies and connects innovative teachers exemplifying professionalism and creativity within public school systems.

Intends to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.

Provides lesson plans, research and resources on technical education and careers. By the Association for Career and Technical Education. By the ACTE.