Education-Related Links



Adventure Online Website, www.adventureonline.com
Allows students to experience the environments of foreign countries on-line.  Back to Top

Business Education Researchers Page, www.brint.com/Research.htm
Provides impressive depth of links for Information Systems and Technology.;Back to Top

ChildStats.gov, http://childstats.gov
This website includes the report America*s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being in
1999. The report represents the third annual monitoring of the status of the nation*s children,
including 23 indicators of their well-being such as economic security, health, behavior and
social environment, education and more.  Back to Top

College Locator, www.ecola.com/college
Provides extensive resource list of Schools and On-line reference materials.  Back to Top

DiscoverySchool.com, http://www.school.discovery.com
The Discovery Channel has created one of the most engaging websites for educators. Within
this website countless plans, unit plans and other materials and links that support Discovery
Channel programming. Our new technology-enhanced classroom in Commerce can actually
bring the Discovery Channel to the desktop for viewing and downloading programs to use with
these materials. Back to Top

Distance Learning on the Net, www.caso.com
A directory of resources on distance learning.  Back to Top

Education Week, http://www.edweek.org/clips/
This is the web page within the weekly newspaper Education Week. Ed Week has a daily
clipping service of newspapers around the country. Each day it posts URLs and summaries
of education articles that appear in newspapers around the country. Back to Top

Ericae.Net, http://www.ericae.net/
This is the website of the ERIC clearinghouse for assessment and evaluation. It contains many
reports and links of interest on these important topics. Back to Top

Global Campus, www.csulb.edu/~gcampus
Includes free curriculum materials, sounds, images, video. Back to Top

Grants and Contract, www.ed.gov/offices/OCFO/gcsindex.html
Includes grants related publications and an interactive database. Back to Top

Great Sites!, www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/amazing.html
Links to 700 sites for young people found by the Association of Library Services to Children. 
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Internet School House, www.onr.com/schoolhouse
Excellent resource for school use of Internet. Includes curriculum guides. Back to Top

Krasnow Institute, The, www.gmu.edu/departments/krasnow
The Krasnow Institute seeks to expand understanding of mind, brain, and intelligence by encouraging research at the intersection of the separate fields of cognitive psychology, neurobiology, and the computer-driven study of artificial intelligence and complex adaptive systems. These separate disciplines increasingly...  Back to Top

Lesson Plans, cagle.slate.msn.com/teacher
Use of newspaper editorial cartoons as a teaching tool in social sciences, art, journalism, and english. Back to Top

New Horizons for Learning, www.newhorizons.org
A network of people involved in teaching and learning in schools, homes, businesses and communities. Back to Top

U.S. Department of Education, www.ed.gov
News and resources for education including DOE publications. Back to Top

USA Today: Education Online, http://education.usatoday.com
This is a daily website put up by USA Today which includes lesson plans for each day's
edition. The items are cross-disciplinary. It is a site about which our students should know. 
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VDE Division of Instruction: SOL's, http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/sol.html
This is a web page within the Virginia Department of Education in which ideas for teaching and
learning in the SOL context are posted. Given the pressure on our students, this is a website
with which they should be familiar through our classes. Back to Top

Virginia Standards of Learning, www.knowledge.state.va.us/main/sol/sol.cfm
Virginia's Site for Educators. Back to Top

Web 66: A K12 site, web66.coled.umn.edu
Includes International Registry of K12 schools. Back to Top

World Lecture Hall, www.utexas.edu/world/lecture
Listing of faculty use of web by discipline, from accounting to zoology.