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  1. 101 Top College, University and Scholarship Pages - The Colleges, College Scholarships and Financial Aid Page is designed to offer college bound students, parents, and counselors easy access to information on colleges and universities throughout the United States, free college scholarship and financial aid searches, SAT and ACT test preparation tips, and more.
  2. AEMS: Asian Education Media Service - "Our mission is to promote understanding of Asian cultures and peoples and to assist teachers at all levels, from elementary schools to colleges and universities, and other individuals and groups, in learning and teaching about Asia."
  3. A-to-Z Teacher Stuff - Quick Lesson Ideas
  4. A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace
  5. About Guide to Secondary School Educators
  6. Academic Employment Network
  7. AcademicNet
  8. Adolescence Directory On Line - Adolescent and secondary education issues
  9. All Academic: The Guide to Free Academic Resources Online - All Academic is an academic index. It is designed to provide scholars and researchers with useful on-line source information about scholarly works.
  10. American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) - access to the addresses, phone numbers, and Web sites of some 2,000 community colleges in the United States, the AACC site also includes a wealth of information on all aspects of two year colleges, including historical background, recent news items, relevant legislative issues, statistics, events calendar, job openings, grants, and more.
  11. America's Best Colleges - US News Online
  12. American Memory
  13. American School Directory - The Internet Home For All K-12 Schools
  14. Armadillo's K-12 WWW Resources
  15. ArtsEdge
  16. Ask An Expert
  17. Ask Dr. Math
  18. AskERIC
  19. Association for Experiential Education Home Page (AEE)
  20. B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
  21. Back to School - Get a highly visual glimpse into the way education is adapting to the Web courtesy of the Texas A&M University Department of Geology. offers up-to-date buying advice and information on everything from the newest computers and electronics to sheets, bath towels, and other basics to the most reliable new and used cars. This guide helps both students and their parents find the best of necessities for high school and college.
  22. BigChalk.com - Teachers, parents, and students can find a wide range of online support at this site including homework help, research tips, and study aids.
  23. Biology Teachers... Unplugged! - meeting place for science teachers and students who want to exchange ideas, experiments, demos, and stories about life in the trenches.
  24. Blackboard.com - "At Blackboard.comSM, you can teach online for free, take distance-learning courses, utilize 239 discipline-specific resource centers and customize them to match your own classes, share tips and information with other online teachers and students, and much more."
  25. Brookings Brown Center on Education Policy - "The Brown Center on Education Policy conducts research on topics in American education, with a special focus on efforts to improve academic achievement in elementary and secondary schools."
  26. Busy Teacher's Web Site K-12
  27. COOL - College Opportunities On-Line - COOl is your direct link to over 9,000 colleges and universities in the United States. If you are thinking about a large university, a small liberal arts college, a specialized college, a community college, a career or technical college or a trade school, you can find them all here.
  28. CEA - Travelabroad.com - Cultural Experiences Abroad was founded in 1996 to provide international education opportunities for U.S. and Canadian college students of all language levels and majors. Today, we send thousands of students on study abroad programs at 20 universities in eight countries including Australia, Costa Rica, England, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and Spain.
  29. California State University Home Page
  30. Cambridge Essay Service - First personalized college application essay service on the Net.
  31. Campus Program - access to over 50,000 US/Canadian university and college program department sites covering over 300 fields of study.
  32. Campus Security Statistics - Searchable database allowing users to browse records of reported criminal offenses at over 6000 U.S. colleges and universities. The database contains records for 1997-99 and may be browsed by region, state, city, type of institution, instructional program, and number of students.
  33. CampusTours.com - clearinghouse for virtual tours and campus maps
  34. Canada's SchoolNet
  35. Canadian Education on the Web
  36. Careers in Oceanography - directory of resources on Careers in Oceanography, Marine Science & Marine Biology
  37. Children's Literature Web Guide
  38. Chrysalis Home Page - Chrysalis offers an independent study program for students of all ages
  39. Claremont High School
  40. Class.com - Class.com is fully accredited Internet-based independent study high school where students can earn High School Diploma.
  41. College Admissions - The Mining Company - a source of information on college admissions, college applications, financial aid , testing, college search, and college selection.. for your reference page
  42. College and University Home Pages
  43. College and University Rankings - Annotated guide to online college ranking services, a short list of print ranking services, a longer bibliography of articles concerning the utility of college rankings, and links to a few sites regarding recent controversy over rankings
  44. College Board Online - Standardized test and financial aid information, career searches, college searches, and much more.
  45. College Club - e-mail, voicemail, chat, personal web pages, student discounts, and Dr. Lovejoy.
  46. College Edge - Offers a powerful college search tool, useful links, and advice and guidance from an expert college panel.
  47. College Grad Job Hunter
  48. CollegeJournal - "Prepare for a career with news and information from The Wall Street Journal and search thousands of entry-level and internship job listings."
  49. CollegeNET - Internet Guide to Colleges and Universities
  50. Colleges, College Scholarships, and Financial Aid Page - an online directory of college and university admissions office email addresses and telephone numbers, college scholarship and financial aid office email addresses, and links to the home pages and online applications of more than a thousand colleges and universities.
  51. CollegeView.com - features a virtual guidance office and college search function
  52. CollegeXpress
  53. Community College Web (CC Web) - Searchable index of 629 community college websites.
  54. Community Learning Network (British Columbia)
  55. CyberKids


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  1. Digest of Education Statistics, 2001 - The Digest of Education Statistics provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of education from prekindergarten through graduate school. Topics in the Digest include: the number of schools and colleges; teachers; enrollments; graduates; educational attainment; finances; federal funds for education; employment and income of graduates; libraries; technology; and international comparisons. Note: Adobe Acrobat Reader required
  2. DEN - Digital Education Network
  3. Digital Classroom - "Welcome to the Digital Classroom! To encourage teachers of students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, the Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and methods for teaching with primary sources."
  4. Digital Dissertations - Welcome to ProQuest Digital Dissertations! As a visitor, you will be able to freely access the most current two years of citations and abstracts in the Dissertation Abstracts database.
  5. Discovery Channel School
  6. early childhood.com
  7. EdHelper.com - A teacher oriented education directory, database and search engine that currently has lesson plans, WebQuests, file downloads and other resources.
  8. Educating.net - Education search engine for homeschooling, K-12, traditional or distance learning university degrees, college scholarship assistance, references, electronic libraries, continuing education, professional re-training, fun learning, homework help, and teacher resources.
  9. Education Index - an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily.
  10. Education-line - electronic texts in education and training
  11. EducationNews.org - "The World's Leading Source of Education News 7 Days a Week"
  12. Education Planet - "Education Web Guide helps teachers, students and parents to quickly and safely find over 110,000 quality educational resources, including top Web sites, software, videos and supplies to maps, news and books as well as more than 16,000 lesson plans."
  13. Education Statistics - Yahoo
  14. Educational Testing Service Network - definitive information about college and graduate school admissions and placement tests, with sample test questions, test preparation, and test registration.
  15. Educause
  16. Education World
  17. The Educator's Reference Desk - Through this site you can access AskERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
  18. Electronic Archives for Teaching the American Literatures
  19. Electronic Emissary
  20. eLearners.com - Find 813 Online Degrees, Online Colleges, Online Universities & More.
  21. Englishteacher - If you have a burning question regarding writing, wording, literature, etc., leave a message in the guestbook or e-mail me.
  22. Exploratorium, The - The Museum of Science, Art, and Human Perception
  23. FastWEB - tailored scholarship search of over 180,000 scholarships, fellowships, loans, and grants, available to students for free.
  24. FinAid: The Financial Aid Information Page - Provides a free, comprehensive, independent, and objective guide to student financial aid.
  25. FREE - Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Education-related resources from forty-nine federal government agencies are featured at this searchable site, developed in response to a 1997 Net Day request from President Clinton for federal projects and materials "that would enrich the Internet as a tool for teaching and learning."
  26. Free University - The mission of the Free University Project on the Internet is to produce directly, or through links, guided independent study materials that can lead to college credit by examination.
  27. Franklin Institute Virtual Science Museum
  28. Free Application for Federal Student Aid - Are you considering attending a college or career school? Which one to attend is one of the most important decisions you need to make. Another is how you're going to pay for your education. To help you, the U.S. Department of Education offers a variety of student financial aid programs. This site helps you to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).
  29. FunBrain.com - "The Internet's #1 Education Site for K-8."


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  1. Gateway to Educational Materials - "The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet."
  2. Geometry Forum
  3. GetDegrees.com - GetDegrees.com can help you find accredited and non-accredited college information on 1000's of online degree and campus-based programs. Find higher education degrees and higher education college courses. Easily compare accredited online colleges and online degrees.
  4. Global Classroom - a system designed to empower teachers, authors, instructors and trainers to securely deliver educational content, courses and lessons to students throughout the world via the Internet.
  5. Global Learning Online - educational site for teachers on global and development education.
  6. Global SchoolNet Foundation
  7. GMAT and Business School - Preparing to take the Graduate Management Admission Test.
  8. Google's University Search - Site enables you to narrow your search to a specific university website. Try it for things like admissions information, course schedules, or alumni news. To get into your target school, just click the name in the alphabetical listing.
  9. GradSchools.com - world-wide index of graduate and post-graduate programs
  10. GRE Online - the official site for those about to take the Graduate Record Examination, the standardized test used by graduate schools to determine whether you retained anything after college.
  11. GRE QOTD
  12. GRE Test Prep
  13. Guide to Independent UK Boarding Schools, The - information about boarding schools in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Also included is information about the UK educational system and the availability of financial assistance
  14. Home-Schooling
  15. Homeschool Social Register - Over 30,000 pages for most towns and cities in U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with other countries coming soon. Hundreds of links to support groups and other homeschool resources.
  16. Home-School World - comprehensive site by Practical Home-Schooling magazine.
  17. Home-School Zone
  18. Homework Support on the Internet
  19. Houghton Mifflin School District - an educational resource store
  20. Ideas and Education
  21. Intel in Education - free curriculum and other educational tools for teachers.
  22. Interactive Frog Dissection
  23. Internet for Learning


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  1. JASON Project
  2. Kaplan Center - The Kaplan Center offers exam preparation and a variety of other services
  3. K-12 History on the Internet Resource Guide
  4. Kidport - "Kidport provides a unique, multi-step program to teach K-8 students thinking and learning skills. Kidport also provides math, science, social studies and language arts interactive education modules and reference materials."
  5. Kids Can Learn - Providing the educational materials and services that parents and teachers need to help their children and students become happy, effective, and highly motivated students!
  6. LSAT Test Prep
  7. Learning Disabilities Online - "an interactive guide to learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and children."
  8. The Learning Page - "The Learning Page provides free, downloadable worksheets and lesson plans for teachers and parents of elementary level schoolchildren. There are hundreds of pages in theme-based and basic skills categories."
  9. LessonPlansPage.com - "Home to over 1000 free lesson plans."
  10. Mapping Your Future - This site is sponsored by a group of guaranty agencies who participate in the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP). They are committed to providing information about higher education and career opportunities. Mapping Your Future's mission is to counsel students and families about college, career, and financial aid choices through a state-of-the-art, public service web site.
  11. Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction
  12. Math Problem of the Week - all problems at a high school level. Answer correctly and your name is listed!
  13. Math, Science, and Technology Education
  14. Medical Mnemonics.com - "A free, non-profit, online searchable database of medical mnemonics to help remember the important details."
  15. MEGA Mathematics
  16. MicroWorlds
  17. MidLink Magazine - "The Magazine for Kids in the Middle Grades"
  18. MIT OpenCourseWare Project - This Massachusetts Institute of Technology site allows you free access to the syllabus, lecture notes, exams and answers, and in some cases, even videotaped lectures of 32 MIT courses. By the 2006-2007 school year, MIT plans to publish the course materials for virtually all 2,000 its graduate and undergraduate courses. (Note: no course credits are available online).
  19. Montessori Network
  20. Myschoolonline.com - "Welcome to the Web's largest community of local education sites."


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  1. National Center for Educational Statistics
  2. National Education Association
  3. National Education Standards - Test Yourself
  4. National Geographic Education Guide - National Geographic sites geared toward the teaching community.
  5. National PTA
  6. National Science Teachers Association
  7. New Tools for Teaching
  8. Notable Citizens of Planet Earth - Biographical Dictionary of over 18,000 people
  9. NOVA Online: Teachers - "Welcome to NOVA's new Teachers site. To help serve you better, we have created a searchable database of all our educational materials, an ever-growing collection of more than 500 separate resources."
  10. Ocean Planet Home Page/Smithsonian
  11. Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
  12. PSAT Test Prep
  13. PBS TeacherSource - "PBS and its member stations are standing by with extensive high-quality and time-saving tools that can help you make the most of your teaching. PBS TeacherSource makes it easy to locate and use the best television and Web resources available."
  14. Plagiarism - "An organization dedicated to assuring academic work originality and maintaining high standards of ethics by providing institutes of learning with an easy means of deterring and detecting plagiarism."
  15. Planetpals Earthzone - EARTHZONE,home of the PLANETPALS; a children's interactive web site with lots of freebies and lots of fun! A PLANETPALS free card game, free recycle kits, free coloring book, free contest, an interactive quiz, click and stick email stickers, free email greetings, crafts, kids club and much more!
  16. Planet Science
  17. Planning for College - Sometimes the toughest part of planning something is just figuring out where to start. At this site by Collegeboard.com, you'll find useful information about your academic, college, and career options.
  18. Princeton Review, The - College Test Preparation
  19. Project EARL
  20. Project Smart


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  1. Quia! - Create you own learing activities
  2. Quest
  3. ReadyWeb
  4. Research-It!
  5. SAT NYT
  6. SAT Practice Test
  7. SAT Preparation
  8. SAT Test Prep
  9. SAT QOTD
  10. Scholarly Journals Distributed Via the World-Wide Web
  11. Scholastic Inc. Internet Center
  12. SIRS - The Knowledge Source
  13. School Psychology Resources Online
  14. SchoolMatch - Looking for a school? Find a school/school system anywhere throughout the US.
  15. Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth
  16. Shakespeare Web
  17. Smithsonian Office of Elementary Secondary Education
  18. Star Child, The - learning center for young astronomers
  19. Student Center, The - An organization for college students, high school students, and teenagers.
  20. Student Financial Assistance - The Student Financial Assistance programs are the largest source of student aid in America, providing over $60 billion a year in grants, loans, and work-study assistance. At this site you'll find help for every stage of the financial aid process, whether you're in school or out of school.
  21. Student Guide - Resource on student financial aid from the U.S. Department of Education. It covers the Department's major aid programs, including Pell Grants, Stafford Loans, and PLUS Loans.
  22. Student Market
  23. Study Guides International
  24. Surfing the Net with Kids
  25. SyllabusWeb


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  1. TEAMS Distance Learning
  2. Teachers@Random - a resource center for teachers from Random House Children's Publishing
  3. Teacher's Edition Online
  4. Teachers Helping Teachers
  5. Teacher Recruitment Clearinghouse - A resource for prospective teachers seeking jobs, and for school districts and states seeking qualified teachers.
  6. Teaching and Learning on the World Wide Web - a searchable, dynamic collection of sites where the web is used for more than just surfing; these are places where teachers are using it in the context of their instruction.
  7. This is MEGA Mathematics!
  8. Trinity College Journal - "One of the Best College Newspapers"
  9. USA Education Report Card - Site is the first state-by-state report card of higher education with grades on performance in five categories: preparation, participation, affordability, completion, and economic and civic benefits.
  10. U.S. Department of Education
  11. Virtual Geomorphology, The
  12. Virtual SchoolHouse


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  1. Web Sites for over 1000 Colleges and Universities
  2. Wonderful World of Insects
  3. World Wide Learn _ A directory of courses, classes, tutorials, workshops and degree programs offered exclusively online and available to adult learners worldwide.


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