Recommended Websites: Education

• ACEnet: American Council on Education
• America's Public School Libraries: 1953-2000: National Center for Education Statistics report
• ASCD: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• Certification Requirements for 50 states (University of Kentucky, College of Education)
• Children's Literature, Newbery Medal: for outstanding writing in American children's literature
• Children's Literature, Caldecott Medal: for outstanding illustration in American children's literature
• Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature
• Documentary Heaven: provides a vast collection of documentaries spanning across every genre
• ED/IT Lib: citations and abstracts for articles on educational technology published by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
• ED Pubs: Publications of the US Department of Education
• Education Finance Statistics Center (National Center for Education Statistics)
• Education World: education news, articles, employment listings, and a search engine for education sites
• Educator's Reference Desk: educational issues resources and plans
• Education Next: Journal of opinion and research in the field of education.
• ERIC (Education Resources Information Center): searchable from the US Department of Education or from EBSCOHost
• Miami University's Children's Picture Book Database
• National Center for Education Statistics
• PBS Learning Media
  
• Social Studies: National Council for the Social Studies
• Theory into Practice: 50 theories relevant to human learning and instruction.
• TSPC: Teacher Standards and Practices Commission of Oregon
• U.S. Dept. of Education
• What to expect your first year of teaching

Lesson Plans

• ADL Curriculum Connections: anti-bias lesson plans and resources from the Anti-Defamation League
• Connexions: global repository of educational materials
• Discovery Education: Discovery Channel's Lesson Plan Library
• EDsitement: National Endowment for the Humanities
• Education World Lesson Planning: lesson plans, ideas, handouts, themes, and more
• Educational Resources & Lesson Plans: Edmund Sass, Ed.D., College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University
• EduHound: Free lesson plans, articles, clip art and more.
• ERIC (Education Resources Information Center): available from the US Department of Education or from EBSCOHost.
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: Teaching and Learning Resources from Federal Agencies
• Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
• IDEAS (Interactive Dialogue with Educators from Across the State - Wisconsin)
• New York Times Learning Network
• Lesson Plan Collections: Michigan eLibrary
• PBS Teachers
• Read * Write * Think: Resources for teaching literacy and literature
• Teaching Tolerance: Discussing diversity in the classroom
• Thinkfinity: 55,000 standards-based, grade-specific, K–12 lesson plans
• Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute: Curriculum units, guides, and reference lists

School and Community Information

• E-Podunk.Com: demographic information by city
• City Data: demographic information by zip code
• National School Locator
• Oregon DOE School Directory: downloadable phone book with contact info for all public schools in the state