Education
Indexes to Education Sites

• All Kinds of Minds -- Highlights the work of Dr. Mel Levine, who shows students how to compensate for their specific learning dysfunctions. Of particular interest: the library of articles, case studies, and activities to help identify learning problems and correct them.
• American School Directory -- the Internet home for all K-12 schools, providing instant access to over 106,000 school web sites.
• Catholic Education Resource-- this service links to Catholic schools on the net, a list-serve for Catholic educators, and related links. Classroom instruction ideas as well.
• E-Rate--information on and applications for the educational rate for internet access.
• E-School News--which humbly calls itself "K-12 technology and internet decision makers' #1 news source - on the Web and in print"
• Education Resource Organizations Directory--put out by the U.S. Dept. of Education, the directory indexes over 4,000 sites, provides research and statistics and is searchable.
• Education Week--which says its goal is to be "the first place on the Web people come to for information about educational reform, schools, and the policies that guide them." It includes not just the text of the journal, but also background papers, and links to previous stories, on such topics as charter schools, privatization, vouchers, internet, and phonics. The publication does seem to have a bias against public education, however.
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence--files created by more than 30 government agencies, searchable, and with a subject index.
• International Montessori Index
• Learning Strategies Database for Education Students
• Parochial School World Directory
• PedaGoNet--a much honored site for the sharing of learning resource materials. Includes a chat room and a clip art searcher.
• School Library Media Center
• School Psychology Resources Online--a guide to info on counseling, behavior disorders, learning disabilities, etc
• Strengthening Teaching -- US Dept. Of Education
• Teaching Tolerance--a curriculum and lesson plans from the Southern Poverty Law Center
• Teacher to Teacher -- tips and advice for new teachers from motivation to classroom management and more.
• Urban Education Institute--a page devoted to the particular administrative and teaching problems of inner city schools. From the University of Chicago.