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.
• Ask an Expert for Secondary School Educators--this service from the Mining Company enlists its "guides" for the various subject areas to answer teachers' and students' questions.
• Blue Web'n - an online library of 1700+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can search by grade level , broad subject area , or specific sub-categories.
• 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.
• Educator's Reference Desk -- (formerly AskERIC) "you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. While the question answer service will no longer be active, The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice."
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence--files created by more than 30 government agencies, searchable, and with a subject index.
• the Gateway to Educational Resources--browse by subject or search by keyword, grade level, for lesson plans and activities for k-12 subjects.
• International Montessori Index
• Internet School Library Media Center
• Intute -- "is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research. The service is created by a network of UK universities and partners. Subject specialists select and evaluate the websites in our database and write high quality descriptions of the resources. The database contains 115645 records"
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators--an outstanding index of K-12 sites. Be patient while it loads.
• 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.
• Public Documents Forum: Resources for Teachers -- links by subject to relevant .gov sites and materials for students. Great for supporting material for lesson plans too.
• School Psychology Resources Online--a guide to info on counseling, behavior disorders, learning disabilities, etc
• 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 Page--a page devoted to the particular administrative and teaching problems of inner city schools.
• Urban Educator--a newsletter with information, news and strategies for urban educators