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This is a great site for teachers and parents. Article titles include: "Making the Most of a Conference with Your School Principal", " What Age is Appropriate?" and " Worksheet Blues". There's information on the education debate, plus family pages and teacher pages, and a search engine.

If you are part of an educational institution (and especially if you're involved in distance learning), you can register here and use the QuizCenter to make Web pages with quizzes. No downloading or installation required, and no knowledge of HTML necessary. Examples and directions provided.

This URL will take you to the archives of this mailing list, run by Peter Kickbush at the US Department of Education. The list sends out two to three e-mail messages a week from the DOE on a variety of topics. If you're interested in subscribing to the list, send an e-mail message to listproc@inet.ed.gov and put the following information (and nothing else) in the message body: subscribe EDInfo yourfirstname yourlastname). If you have a sig file, please turn it off. A great tool!!

Brief reviews on many current education-related books from smaller publishers on this site created and maintained by Kate Corby. The reviews are catalogued by author, title, subject, and publisher, and users are asked to submit their own reviews if they like. Neat tool, and nicely organized.

Put up by an Australian teacher, Education by Design contains math games and puzzles, and provides the opportunity for children to publish stories on the Net. Of special interest to parents are the short explanations of current theories on how children learn spelling, reading, math skills, etc.

This site offers separate entries and directed information for students, parents, educators, and administrators in all parts of Australia. If you teach in Western Australia, for instance, you can find specific information and general resources about your job, curriculum, classroom, and professional development.

This well organized online journal on education policy is in its fifth year. You can read the full texts of all EPAA articles, browse their abstracts, or submit your own article or commentary.

This popular hard copy publication contains articles and information for educators, as well as "issues pages" that cover hot topics in the education industry--topics like school vouchers, charter schools, the Internet, and more. They plan to start charging for access shortly, but at the moment they're offering it on a free trial basis.

"Where Educators Go To Learn," Education World is a great source of current news on educational topics, lesson plans, curriculum resources, teacher training, book reviews, discussion, and more.

Steck-Vaughn Publishing offers this site to parents and educators of K-12 children as a source of their educational materials. They include a Frequently Asked Questions section and resource sites for teachers.

Andy Carvin has put together this site "to explore the worlds of educational reform and information technology," and he's done it very well. Among his topics: the potential role of WWW in the classroom, how to create your own web page, the information highway debate, and computers and kids. Great education links.

Electronic School online contains articles from the quarterly print version published by The National School Boards Association. Included today are: "How to Help Novice Teachers Soar," "Technology Makes Social Studies Come Alive," and "The 25 CD-ROM Titles Every School District Should Have."

The labor and training agencies of the U.S. Government set up TTRC to help create a system of employment and training services that would be low cost and easily adaptable to changing conditions. Here you can learn about School-to-Work, job training, corporate involvement, career resources, skill standards, and more.

Encarta Schoolhouse brings you a current topic, such as Dig a Dinosaur, and the articles, links, related learning activities, and questions answered by an expert that bring that subject to life. There are a dozen past topics in the archives, plus a teacher's lounge, chat opportunities, and the Encarta Lesson Collection described above.

Educators, the EnviroLink Network, and the environmental community have come together to bring environmental education online. Not only are resources gathered for teachers, but for students, too!

Part of Microsoft's travel site, the World Guide is an "illustrated guidebook to more than 250 destinations." The geography, history, arts, and culture information for these locations make this site a great place to learn.

Answers to general science questions and instructions for dozens of science experiments are available on this site, a great resource for teachers and students alike.

Supported by NASA, this project offers a number of interactive modules relating to topics such as rainforests, El Nino, the Mars landing, Water Quality, and Earth on Fire. The aim is to engage high school students in creative learning and problem solving using GIS and other technologies. There’s also a middle school section, plus lots of teacher help and opportunities for interaction.


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