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Internet Researcher:
A Guide to Education Resources
This page is designed to help you find Internet resources in general
and international education. Its purpose is to serve as a starting point -- a
guide to selected resources -- rather than a comprehensive list.
General Education WWW Indices
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eiNET.net
- Geared specifically toward professionals, this site emphasizes information
formats and organizational sources.
[http://www.einet.net/galaxy/directory/15102]
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Yahoo's Education Directory
- Yahoo is one of the best-known Internet indexing services because
it is one of the most comprehensive. A searchable database that offers
dozens of indices and sub-categories, along with a daily update of education-related
news events.
[http://www.yahoo.com/Education/]
- Tile.Net/Lists
(Discussion and Information Lists)
- Discussion lists (sometimes known as listservs) are electronically-facilitated
discussion forums of participants who share a common interest. You can
e-mail a question or response to the forum and the list re-transmits
your posting to all subscribers. To find discussion lists in education,
type 'education' in the text box. A good complement to Tile.Net is ERIC
Listservs.
[http://tile.net/lists/]
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General Education Resources
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DiscoverySchool.com
- Discovery School has resources (including lesson plans)
for teaching science, social studies, language arts, and humanities
to grades K-12. The programming themes cross curricular subjects and
cover literature, sciences, and social studies.
[http://www.school.discovery.com/]
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Library of
Congress' Learning Page
- An organized approach to using the multimedia resources of the American Memory and other special, historical
collections of "the nation's attic" as represented in the
National Digital Library. For legal information, do not neglect Thomas:
Legislative Information on the Internet; for all Library of Congress
programming and resources, go to the Library
of Congress home page.
[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html]
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Teachers.Net
Information Desk
- Offers a good set of basic reference resources for general, and specifically
education, reference needs. For the "Lesson Exchange," go
to the homepage of Teachers.Net.
[http://www.teachers.net/library/refdesk.html]
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Education Information from the Government
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Education Commission of the States (ECS)
- Designed to help identify, develop and implement public policies to improve student learning at all levels. The nation's most extensive website devoted to education policy, designed to help find out what states are doing, what research is being done, and where to go for more information.
[http://www.ecs.org/]
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The ERIC System Homepage
- ERIC is an acronym for the Educational Resources Information Center,
a project of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational
Research and Improvement. In its thirty-year history, ERIC has compiled
an internationally recognized database of scholarly- and practically-oriented
education documents, including multiple award-winning Internet sites.
See also the ERIC Education database.
[http://www.eric.ed.gov]
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The U.S. Department of Education
- Excellent resource for all federally-sponsored, education-related
projects, services, and products, e.g., the excellent data reports and
analyses of the National Center for
Educational Statistics, and The Regional Educational Laboratories,
the Department of Education's largest research and development effort
for educational improvement. See Topics
from A to Z for a guide to major topics covered by the Department
of Education site.
[http://www.ed.gov/index.html]
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Links to State Education
Agencies
- The direct resource for discovering individual states' curriculum,
assessment, and/or certification requirements; offered by the Council of Chief State School Officers.
[http://www.ccsso.org/chief_state_school_officers/state_education_agencies/index.cfm]
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Electronic Journals and Full-Text Archives
The ALADIN system offers a number
of databases which feature full text. Periodical Abstracts, Project Muse, Electronic Collections Online, and Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe all cover journals in education. Remote access to these databases is limited to CUA students, faculty,
and staff.
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Education Policy Analysis Archives
- A peer-reviewed electronic journal published by Arizona State University,
covering education policy on "any level of the education system
in any nation."
[http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/]
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Education Policy Alliance
- Network of university-based research centers providing access to the full text of their reports on education policy. Link to individual members or use a search engine to find reports on a particular topic.
[http://educationpolicyalliance.org/]
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Education Week on the Web
- Articles from the well-known Education Week and Teacher
Magazine, among other offerings, are available in full-text at
this site.
[http://www.edweek.org/]
- The
International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning
- A refereed electronic journal covering administrative issues in education,
directed primarily toward practicing educators.
[http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~iejll/]
- Meridian
- An electronic journal dealing with the use of computer technology
in middle schools. Published and refereed by graduate students and faculty
at North Carolina State University.
[http://www.ncsu.edu/meridian/]
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International Education Resources
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Intercultural E-Mail Classroom
Connections
- The IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections) mailing lists
are provided by St. Olaf College as a free service to help teachers
and classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail
classroom pen-pal and project exchanges. (From the site's introduction.)
The site describes discussion lists that are divided by educational
level or project need and offers a searchable archive of previous postings.
Free registration required.
[http://www.stolaf.edu/network/iecc]
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Library of Congress'
Country Studies/Area Handbooks
- A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division
of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program
sponsored by the Department of the Army. Most books in the series deal
with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political,
economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and
examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they
are shaped by cultural factors. (From the site's introduction.)
[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html]
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United
Nations CyberSchoolBus
- The United Nations' "Global teaching and learning project" brings together news, statistics, webcasts, publications and curricular materials for K - 12 teachers and students.
[http://cyberschoolbus.un.org]
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Yahoo's Index of
Countries
- This site provides an "Education" sub-directory for many of
the countries listed.
[http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/]
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