Associations/Commissions
Alabama
Commission on Higher Education
The Commission on Higher Education has the statutory responsibility
for the overall statewide planning and coordination of higher
education in Alabama, the administration of various student aid
programs and the performance of designated regulatory functions.
National
Commission on Teaching and America's Future
"The National Commission on Teaching and America's Future,
funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and Carnegie Corporation
of New York and housed at Teachers College, Columbia University,
is a blue-ribbon group of 26 public officials, business and community
leaders, and educators who are broadly knowledgeable about education,
school reform, and teaching."
National
Education Association (NEA)
"The NEA is America's oldest and largest organization committed
to advancing the cause of public education. Founded in 1857 in
Philadelphia and now headquartered in Washington, D.C., NEA proudly
claims 2.5 million members who work at every level of education,
from pre-school to university graduate programs. NEA has affiliates
in every state as well as in over 13,000 local communities across
the United States."
American
Federation of Teachers (AFT)
"The AFT continues to be known for its democratic ideals
and its cutting-edge work on behalf of its members and the public
they serve. And because the AFT has more than one million members
nationwide, we can exert a strong influence on standards and professional
practices in our members' workplaces."
National
Board for Professional Teaching Standards
"The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards works
to strengthen the teaching profession and to improve student learning
in America's schools [by] establishing high standards for what
accomplished teachers should know and be able to do." This
site is searchable.
International
Research & Exchanges Board (IREX)
IREX is a non-profit organization founded in 1968 to administer
academic exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union.
It has now expanded to encompass professional training, institution
building, technical assistance, and policy programs with the Newly
Independent States (NIS), Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), Mongolia
and China.
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Curriculum Materials
and Lesson Plans
U.S.
Curriculum Standards
Standards by subject area and by state.
Curriculum
Studio
Curriculum Studio provides standards, assessment guidelines for
designing curriculum, materials, and programs for the arts. This
site is searchable.
Collaborative
Lesson Archive
Lesson plans are available for K-12 and undergraduate levels.
The lesson archive is searchable by subject, title, grade level,
etc.
Resources
for Teachers
This web site from Purdue University "contains information
relevant to elementary and secondary teachers of English/Language
Arts as well as resources for college-level instructor."
Educator's
Electronic Notebook
From the web site: "This web site contains resource links
to explore electronic applications for your classroom and your
research. Many of the links are gateways to related sites on the
same subject."
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators
This guide features "a classified list of sites on the Internet
found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional
growth." The site is updated daily and is searchable.
EDSITEment
"EDSITEment brings together the best of the humanities on
the web. It is a constantly growing collection of the most valuable
online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and
foreign languages." This site is searchable.
Science
NetLinks
"Science NetLinks is a national effort by MCI and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to help science
teachers, librarians and other adult educators get onto the Internet,
navigate it safely and efficiently, identify useful resources
and use those resources in a teaching environment." This
site is searchable.
Encarta
Online
A collection of lesson plans provided by Microsoft Network.
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Publications
AV,
Video and Multimedia Producer
Cause/Effect:Transforming
Education Through Information Technology
Chreods
Electronic journal on education and educational research from
the United Kingdom.
Compute-Ed:
An Electronic Journal of Learning and Teaching with and About
Technology
Curriculum/Technology
Quarterly
Directory
of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
"The Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-conferences
screens, evaluates and organizes discussion lists, newsgroups,
MUDS, MOO's, Muck's, Mushes, mailing lists, interactive Web chat
groups (e-conferences) on topics of interest to scholars and professionals
for use in their scholarly, pedagological and professional activities."
Complied by Diane K. Kovacs, the directory may be searched by
keyword or browsed by alphabetical listing or subject categories.
Education
Policy Analysis Archives: A Peer-Reviewed Journal
Education
Week: American Education's Online Newspaper of Record
EDUCOM
Review
Electronic
School Online
f!rsT
Mond@y: Peer-Reviewed Journal on the Internet
Harvard
Education Letter, Research Online
Information
Technology and Disabilities
For kindergarten through college educators, a refereed journal
on emerging technologies for computer users with disabilities.
The journal is sponsored by the organization EASI (Equal Access
to Software and Information).
Journal
of Extension
Journal
of Industrial Teacher Education
Journal
of Technology Education
Journal
on Excellence in College Teaching
Newsletters
and Journals from ED (U.S. Department of Education)
Links to nine electronic publications on a variety of educational
topics.
Phi
Delta Kappan
"The Professional Journal for Education."
Reading
Online: An Electronic Journal of the International Reading Association
Syllabus:
New Directions in Educational Technology
Excerpts from selected issues.
Teacher
Talk
Published by the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University.
Teachers
College Record
T.H.E.
(Technological Horizons In Education) Online
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Statistics
Data
and Story Library (DASL)
"DASL (pronounced 'dazzle') is an online library of datafiles
and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods."
Teachers looking for examples may search the database in five ways:
by "story" title; by statistical method, such as regression
or ANOVA; by topic, such as psychology or health; by datafile subject,
such as finance or astronomy; or by full-text (all criteria at once).
Education
Finance Statistical Center
The "Public School District Finance Peer Search" lets
you enter a county name to see graphs and data comparing it to
similiar school districts in the state, region, and nation.
National
Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
Mandated by Congress, the NAEP monitors the knowledge, skills,
and performance of the nation's children and youth. The site presents
objective data about student performance at national, regional,
and, on a trial basis, state levels. Full-text documents (PDF
files) on general and subject-specific performance (math, reading,
etc.) are available.
National
Center for Education Statistics
Choose the "Data" option for access to useful searchable
databases, such as the "National Public School Locator"
may be used to find schools by many criteria.
UNESCO:
Statistics on Education
A wealth of data on education worldwide (by country or region).
Use the searchable databases to select criteria (enrollment, expenditures,
illiteracy, etc.).
U.S.
Census Bureau: Education
Tables of statistics on topics such as educational attainment,
degree received, field of training, and economic status, school
enrollment, and other characteristics crossed by education.
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Buros
Institute of Mental Measurements
This organization has long published standard reference sources
in the field of tests and measurement. The site provides a searchable
database of test descriptions (Test Locator) and references to reviews
of tests (Test Review Locator). The search engine used has a "find
more link this" feature that assists in discovering related
tests. A searchable directory of test publishers is also provided
along with links to other related sites.
The
Consortium for Equity in Standards and Testing (CTEST)
The organization's mission is to focus "attention on how
educational standards, assessments, and tests can be used more
fairly." Full-text documents (PDF files), such as the Code
of Fair Testing Practices, are available along with "Spotlight
Issues" and links to other testing Internet sites.
Educational
Testing Service (ETS)
"The Educational Testing Service Network (ETS Net) is a gateway
to definitive information about college and graduate school admissions
and placement tests, with links to AP, GRE (GRE Online), GMAT,
SAT, The Praxis Series, and TOEFL sites, as well as other educational
resources. ETS Net provides sample test questions, test preparation,
and test registration. It also contains information on ETS research
initiatives, teacher certification, college planning, financial
aid, and links to college and university sites" (from the
web site).
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American
Center for the Study of Distance Education (ACSDE)
"The American Center for the Study of Distance Education
(ACSDE) ...seeks to promote distance education research, study,
scholarship, and teaching and to serve as a clearinghouse for
the dissemination of knowledge about distance education."
Includes subscription information for The American Journal of
Distance Education, as well as information on monographs, conferences,
etc.
Distance
Education and Training Council
"The Distance Education and Training Council (formerly the
National Home Study Council) is a non profit educational association
located in Washington, D.C. DETC serves as a clearinghouse of
information about the distance study/correspondence field and
sponsors a nationally recognized accrediting agency called the
Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training
Council."
Distance
Education Clearinghouse: University of Wisconsin-Extension
Links to current information on distance education. Includes glossaries,
review of technologies, bibliographies, etc.
Distance
Learning on the Net
Included are descriptions of distance education web sites, along
with links to distance education resources. Each resource listed
has been selected for its overall quality and reputation.
Globewide
Network Academy (GNA)
GNA's distance learning catalog has over 15,000 courses and programs
from kindergarten to doctoral programs. Includes the Virtual Education
Gazette, a monthly online newsletter on virtual education.
Instructional
Telecommunications Council
"The Instructional Telecommunications Council, ITC, is a
national, non-profit organization composed entirely of, and directed
toward meeting the needs of, educators and organizations involved
in higher education instructional telecommunications and distance
learning."
University
Continuing Education Association
"University Continuing Education Association [is] an international
association of universities and colleges working to expand higher
education opportunities for part-time and non-traditional students."
PBS
Adult Learning Service
"The PBS Adult Learning Service (ALS) provides programming
and services that support adult education and distance learning,
including: Adult Learning Satellite Service; Ready to Earn®, an
initiative to provide new opportunities for workforce education
through a broad range of adult education services; and Going the
Distance®, a service that enables colleges to offer two-year degrees
through distance learning."
United
States Distance Learning Association (USDLA)
"The United States Distance Learning Association's... purpose
is to promote the development and application of distance learning
for education and training. The constitutents we serve include
K through 12 education, higher education, continuing education,
corporate training, and military and government training."
World
Lecture Hall
"The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created
by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials."
This site is searchable.
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