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
