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Adult Education

• Center for Learning in Retirement.
• National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL).

Administration-Leadership

• Who is Leading our Schools (Gates-Rand)?
• Importance of Leadership-Role of School Principals (Teske).
• National Clearinghouse of Educational Facilities (NCEF).
• Principals Leadership Institute, UC Berkeley.

Art Education

• American Image Interactive Photo Gallery.
• The Art of Teaching the Arts. Annenberg Media.
• Arts Education Partnership.
• Big Ideas at Berkeley.
• California Art Education Association.
• Cornell Theory Center for Arts.
• Kennedy Center's Arts Edge.
• National Art Education Association.
• National Gallery of Art.
• Online Archive of California.
• Project Zero

Associations, Conferences

• Backdoor Broadcasting Company. Audio conference archives.
• Education Organizations (Yahoo Index).
• American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD).
• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
• American Association of Community Colleges.
• American Association of University Women.
• American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
• American Educational Research Association.
• American Federation of Teachers.
• American Psychological Association.
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
• Association of Teacher Educators.
• Children's Defense Fund.
• College Board Online.
• Consortium for Policy Research in Education.
• Council for Exceptional Children.
• Council of Chief State School Officers.
• Council of the Great City Schools.
• EDC: Education Development Center, Inc.
• Education Commission of the States.
• Educational Research Service.
• EDUCAUSE.
• EDUCAUSE Events Calendar.
• International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement.
• International Reading Association.
• International Society for Technology in Education.
• ITeachnet-International Teachers & Administrators Network.
• National Art Education Association.
• National Association of Elementary School Principals.
• National Association of Independent Schools.
• National Association of Secondary School Principals.
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
• National Center for Education Statistics.
• The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
• National Center on Education and the Economy.
• National Commission on Teaching and America's Future.
• National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
• National Council for the Social Studies.
• National Council of Teachers of English.
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
• National Education Association.
• National Network of Regional Educational Laboratories.
• National PTA.
• National School Boards Association.
• National Science Teachers Association.
• RAND.
• Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education.
• University of Waterloo Electronic Library, Scholary Societies Project.
• Wellesley Centers for Women.

Assessment and Evaluation

• Condition of Education.
• Educational Testing Service.
• Nation's Report Card.
• See Tests and Measurements.

Class Size

• Class Size Reduction-CSR Research.

Charter Schools

• Charter School Resource Page.
• Charter School Development Center.
• California Charter School Page.
• U.S. Charter School Homepage.

Children's Literature

Citation

Comparative, Global and International Education

• African Education.
• Australian Education International's Research Database.
• Center for International Higher Education (Boston College).
• Comparative and International Education Society (CIES).
• Data from Developing Countries. (Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development)
• Eurybase - The Information Network on Education in Europe.
• Institute of International Education. (Open Doors)
• International Archive of Education Data (IAED).
• International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement.
• International Education Programs Service (U.S. Dept. of Education)
• International Educational Comparisons (NCES).
• The Library of Congress Country Studies.
• NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
• OECD Education Database.
• Overseas Schools (U.S. State Department).
• United Nations Yearbooks..
• UNESCO Education Information Service.
• PADDLE. Pacific Archive of Digital Data for Learning and Education.
• Portals to the World (Library of Congress).
• UNESCO Electronic Documents.
• USNEI -- U.S. Network for Education Information. (U.S. Dept. of Education)

Counseling-Psychology

• Encyclopedia of School Psychology. Search Pathfinde.r
• Mental Help Net--Professional Resources.
• School Psychology Resources Online.
• See Weblinks for Psychology.

Credentials-Certification

• California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
• CBEST-California Basic Educational Skills Test.
• 50 States' Certification Requirements.
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Curriculum and Lesson Plans

• AcqWeb. Publishers of textbooks and books on education.
• ALPS: Active Learning Practices for Schools (Harvard Graduate School of Education -- Project Zero).
• American Memory -- Learning Page (Library of Congress).
• Apple Learning Interchange.
• EDSITEment.
• Awesome Library for Teachers, Students and Parents.
• Blue Web'n.
• CEC Lesson Plans. (Columbia Education Center)
• The Educator's Reference Desk.
• The Gateway to Educational Material (GEM).
• MERLOT. (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
• National History Education Clearinghouse.
• New York Times Learning Network.
• ProTeacher.
• School Rooms.
• University of Wyoming Digital Colleections. Teacher Resources.
• Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute.

Dissertations-Open Access

• NDLTD-Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
• Dissertation finder-UCB.

Distance Education

• American Distance Education Consortium.
• Distance Education Clearinghouse.
• Distance Learning On the Net.

Diversity-Multicultural

• The African American Education Data Book: Volumes I, II, III. See EDP Reference Collection (LC2717 .N47 1997).
• DiversityWeb.
• Innu Indians.
• National Center for Curriculum Transformation Resources on Women.
• Native American Sites.
• Right-to-education.
• Teaching Tolerance Magazine.

Early Childhood Education

• Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
• Child & Family Web Guide (Tufts University).
• Child Care & Early Education Research Connections.
• Children's Defense Fund.
• ChildStats.gov.
• CYFERNET (Child Youth and Families Education and Research Network).
• KIDS COUNT.
• National Center for Early Development & Learning.
• Pre-K Education-Pew Trust.

Economics and Financial Literacy

• Educational Resources-Federal Reserve Bank.
• My Money-Financial Literacy.

Educational Research

• OERI. Office of Educational Research and Improvement Archive.
• Odum Institute for Research in Social Science (University of North Carolina) -- Public Opinion Poll Question Database.
• Polling Report.
• Public Agenda ONLINE.
• Wisconsin Center for Research.

ERIC-IES-What Works

• ERIC.
• Institute of Educational Sciences.
• What Works Clearinghouse.

ESL, Bilingual

• CAELA-Center for Adult English Language Acquisition.
• California Association for Bilingual Education.
• Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research (University of Southern California.)
• Interesting Things for ESL Students.
• National Association for Bilingual Education.
• National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs (formerly National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education).
• TESL-EJ Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language.

Family, Community and Schools

• Family and Society Studies Worldwide.
• The Connection Collection.
• The State of the World's Children. UNICEF.
• Women's Studies International.
• A World of Prevention (Texas Youth Commission).

Financial Aid

• California Student Aid Commission.
• FastWEB.
• Foundation Center's Home Page.
• MacArthur Foundation.
• Yahoo -Education: Financial Aid: Grants.

Funding and Educational Finance

• Business Source Premier.
• Department of Education Fiscal Year 2005 Congressional Action.

Government resources

Higher Education.

• American Scholar.
• American Universities.
• Boyer Commission Report on Undergraduate Education.
• Center for International Higher Education.
• Center for the Study of Higher Education, UC Berkeley.
• College and University Home Pages.
• College and University Rankings.
• College Navigator
• Colleges in the West, 2009 (Peterson's pdf).
• Educational Testing Service.
• EDUCAUSE.
• The Institute for Higher Education Policy.
• Measuring Up.
• MERLOT (Multimedia educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching).
• National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education.
• NEA Higher Ed Events Calendar.
• Peterson's Education Guides.
• Organization of U.S. Education (U.S. Network for Education Information).
• UC College Prep free online courses.
• U.S. News and World Report Graduate School Rankings.

History of Education

• Blackwell History of Education Museum.
• H-Education (listserv).
• History of American Education Web Project.
• History of Education.
• History of Education Society (United Kingdom).
• History of Education Society (United States).
• History of Literacy.
• Virtual Museum of Education Iconics (University of Minnesota).

Homeschooling

• Growing Without Schooling.
• Homeschool.com.
• Home School Legal Defense Association.
• Homeschool World.
• Homeschooling Information and Resource Pages.
• Homeschooling Resource Page.
• Homeschooling in the United States.
• Jon's Homeschool Resource Page.
National Home Education Research Institute..
• NCES for statistics on homeschooling.
• Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students in 1998.

Instructional Design - See Teaching & Pedagogy

Job Search

• Academic 360.com.
• Academic Employment Network. (Includes certification requirements, school district profiles, and cost of living comparisons for most states).
• Career Builder.
• Chronicle of Higher Education.
• EdHunters.
• Education Jobs Page.
• Education World Job Resources.
• Ed Week Jobs.
• HigherEd jobs.com
• H-Net Job Guide.
• IQ Education-Teach in England.
• JobSmart-Northern California.
• Job Seeking in U.S. Public Libraries.
• K-12 Jobs.
• Monster.com
• University JobBank.
• U.S. Academe.

Journals in Education

• AERA list - Open Access.
• DOAJ - Open Access.
• Search OskiCat for journal titles at UC Berkeley.
• Search Melvyl for journal titles at the University of California libraries.
• See also ERIC - Journal Directory.
• See also Education Index - Journal Directory.
• See also Key Resources for Education.

Language, Literacy, Reading

• Accelerated Reader. What Works Clearinghouse.
• CAELA-Center for Adult English Language Acquisition.
• Center for Applied Linguistics.
• History of Literacy.
• International Reading Association.
• Literacy.org.
• Literacy Project.
• National Assessment for Adult Literacy.
• National Center for Family Literacy.
• National Institute for Literacy.
• National Literacy Trust (United Kingdom.)
• National Writing Project.
• Online Resources for Writers. Amherst College.
• ProLiteracy Worldwide.
• Reading Is Fundamental (RIF).

Law-Education

• California Education Code.
• California Legislative Analyst Office.
• California Statutes and Codes.
• Children's Defense Fund.
• Education Law Material.
• FindLaw: Legal Subjects: Education Law.

Libraries-Education

• See also Libraries.
• Cambridge University Institute of Education Library and Resources Centre.
• Cubberley Education Library, Stanford University.
• Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM).
• Gottesman Libraries, Teachers College Columbia University.
• Harvard Monroe C. Gutman Library.
• Indiana University, Bloomington, Education Library.
• National Library of Education.
• National Library of Education Archive.
• Peabody College, Vanderbilt University Education Library.
• Queen's University Libraries (Kingston, Canada), Education Library.
• University of Florida, Education Library.
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Education and Social Science Library.
• University of Kentucky, Education Library.
• University of Virginia, Education Library.
• University of Alberta: H.T. Coutts Library.
• University of Hong Kong Libraries -- Education Library Collections.

Math and Science

• Access Excellence.
• AMSER Quarterly (Applied Math and Science Education Repository).
• BioEd Online. National Space Biomedical and Research Institute.
• Center for Science Education.
• Cornell Math & Science Gateway.
• Environmental Litaracy Council Teachers Resources.
Exploratorium. Hands-on museum of science, art and human perception.
• Fermilab Education Lab.
• Frank Potter's Science Gems.
• Froggy Page.
• Galileo Project.
• Hands-on-Science Centers.
• Jason Project. National Geographic Society.
• MathDL. MAA Mathematical Sciences Digital Library
• Math Forum.
• National Center for Science Education.
• National Science Digital Library.
• National Science Foundation Discoveries.
• Mathematics Illuminated.
• NASA Quest.
• Project 2061.
• The Royal Society. Science.
• Science.gov.
• Science Learning Network.
• TERC. Math and science education.
• TIMSS. Trends in International Mathematics and Science Studies. IES.
• WISE. Web-based inquiry science environment.
• NEA. National Education Association.

Media

• BBC.
• Discovery Channel Online.
• Federal Communications Commission Kidszone.
• Media Literacy Online Project Home Page.
• NICEM.National Information Center for Educational Media database.
• Open Vault (WGBH Media Library and Archives).
• PBS.
• UC Berkeley Media Resources Center.
• See also Media.

Music

• K-12 Resources for Music Educators.
• Music Education Online.

Philosophy of Education

• Center for Dewey Studies.
• Some Favorite Quotations from the Works of John Dewey (1859-1952).

Policy and Reform

• Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
• Blueprint for American Prosperity. Federal Role in 21st Century Educational Innovation.
• Brown Center on Education Policy. Brookings.
• The Center for Education Reform.
• Center on Reinventing Public Education.
• Coalition of Essential Schools National Web.
• Consortium for Policy Research in Education.
• Cross City Campaign for Urban School Reform.
• Education Policy Analysis Archives.
• The Education Schools Project.
• The Education Trust.
• No Child Left Behind - Bush Education Initiative.
• Regional Educational Laboratories.

Poverty and Education

• Teach for America.
• See also Urban education and Rural education.

Rankings

• Education State Rankings: PreK-12 Education in the 50 United States. Doe Reference LA217.2.E383.

Repositories-Digital-Open Access

• California Digital Library.
• OAIster.

Rural Education

• National Education Association on Rural Education.
• National Rural Education Association.
• OCRE-Organizations concerned with rural education.
• Rural School and Community Trust..
• See also NCES for statistics on rural schools.

Search Engines

• See Key Resources; Reference Collection; Government; Electronic Resource Finder.

Service Learning

• UC Berkeley Service Learning.
• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.
• Service Learning organizations.
• Youth Service California.

Scholarly Publishing

School Directories

• American School Directory.
• Bay Area School Districts.
• California Association of Independent Schools.
• California County Offices of Education.
• EDP Library's Reference Collection-Search Pathfinder.
• SchoolMatters.
• Search for Public Schools (U.S. Dept. of Education).
• Search for Private Schools (U.S. Dept. of Education).

Social Studies

• Best of History websites.
• Web Center for Social Research Methods (Cornell.)
• Cornell Theory Center Arts & Social Sciences Gateway.
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
• The History Net.
• HyperHistory Online.
• Intute: Social Sciences.
• National Archives: The Digital Classroom.
• National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (NBER).
• United States Census 2000 -- Census in Schools.

Special Education: Disabled amd Gifted

• Digest of Educational Statistics--search "special education".
• LD Online: Learning Disabilities and Resources.
• National Center for Learning Disabilities.
• National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented.
• OSERS-U.S. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Sports and Physical Education

• NASLIN. North American Sports Library Network Archive.
• Olympics.
• PE Central.
• Scholarly Sports Sites.

Standards, Frameworks

• California Frameworks.
• Department of Education's Standards Resources. An Archive.
• Developing Educational Standards.
• Goals 2000. An Archive.
• NEA Curriculum Standards.
• Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation. A peer-reviewed online journal.
• McRel. Search for standards.

Statistics

Teaching, Pedagogy

• ALPS: Active Learning Practices for Schools.
• K-12 Practitioners' Circle. (NCES)
• The Knowledge Loom (Northeast & Islands Regional Educational Laboratory).
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.
• Project Zero (Harvard Graduate School of Education).
• Teacher/Pathfinder.
• Teacher Professional Development Sourcebook.
• Teachers.Net.
• Theory Into Practice Database.
• Usable Knowledge.
• WIDE World.

Technology and Education

• Educational Software Preview Guide.
• EDUCAUSE.
• Education Week.
• EDUTECH.
• CLOE Stories.
• Instructional use of learning objects.
• InTime Project.
• Learning Objects: What?
• Microsoft in Education.
• Technology and Learning Online.

Tests and Measurements

Textbooks and Syllabi

• The EDP Library at UCB does not maintain a collection of textbooks currently used in California schools. Learning Resources Display Centers are maintained by several County Offices of Education so that teachers may do preliminary screening of material for selection of instructional materials. The following counties maintain LRDCs: Butte, Contra Costa, Fresno, Humboldt, Kern, Los Angeles (Central), Los Angeles (Southern), Merced, Monterey, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara, Sonoma, Stanislaus, Tulare, Ventura.


• AcqWeb. Textbook publishers.
• California Learning Resource Display Centers.
• California Recommended Textbooks. 2008 Reading/Language Arts–English-Language Development (RLA/ELD) adoption for kindergarten through grade eight.
• Jack Graves Early Reader Special Collection at the EDP Library. Search Pathfinder title keyword field.
• 19th Century Schoolbooks.
• Early American Textbooks 1775-1900. See Pathfinder for Call #LB3047.A12 E38 1985.
• Historical textbooks at Cubberly Education Library.
• Historical textbooks special collection at Harvard University.
• H-Urban Teaching Center Syllabus Archive.
• World Lecture Hall. (University of Texas)

UC Libraries

UC Office of the President

Urban Education

• National Institute for Urban School Improvement.
• Perspectives on Urban Education
• Urban Teacher Residencies. Aspen Institute and Center for Teacher Quality Report.
• Urban Studies database