Education

Useful links from other libraries:

• MSU Education Resources - Guide to education resources on the web put together by the librarian at Michigan State.
• Education Resources - Links to useful education resources compiled by the Florence Coles Ballenger Teachers Center at Eastern Illinois University.
• Selected Websites of importance to college/university education librarians - Links to resources that various education librarians across the country have put together.

Information on International Education:

• Eurydice - The information network on education in Europe.
• International Comparisons in Education
• Pakistan Research Repository - Many Pakistani PhD theses along with various research papers from higher education institutions in Pakistan.
• Education in South America - Links to many useful web sources.
• China Education and Research Network - Provides an overview of current Chinese education practice.
• Council of Ministers of Education, Canada - Policy information about education in Canada.
• Education International - International education news.
• New Zealand Educational Theses Database - Database searches a number of different kinds of documents, many of which are not necessarily available, but you can limit your search to documents that are available online.
• UNESCO International Bureau of Education - Country profiles along with policy reports, education projects, and statistics.
• World Bank Education - International education information.

Classroom resources (also check tabs for specific subject areas):

• TeacherTube - All kinds of videos for educators.
• Curricular Resources - Prepared by fellows teaching in the New Haven Public Schools and participating in a seminar at Yale.
• IDEAS - Classroom resources from Wisconsin.
• Thinkfinity - Resources for educators compiled by the Verizon Foundation.
• RubiStar - Templates in a variety of subjects that help to quickly create a customized rubric.
• Scholastic Teacher Resource Center - Lots of ads but also lots of good free resources including lesson plans and helpful reviews of books for children.

Miscellaneous resources:

• Open Access Journals in the Field of Education - This list is maintained by the Communication of Research SIG in AERA.
• 50 State's Certification Requirements - Made available by the University of Kentucky
• School District Demographics System - Gateway to geographic and demographic data related to school districts in the US.
• Council of the Great City Schools - Coalition of 60 of the United States' largest urban public school systems.
• Consortium for Policy Research in Education
• Brown Center on Education Policy
• The Sloan Consortium - Information related to distance learning.
• Wisconsin Center for Education Research - Has many long-term projects and centers and many of the individual websites have useful information.
• Center on Reinventing Public Education - Has many working papers, full-length research reports and opinion pieces.
• Education Resource Organizations Directory - Provided by the U.S. Department of Education
• Educational Needs Index - Econometric model of all fifty states that assesses conditions and trends related to education.
• Principles and Indicators for Student Assessment Systems - From the National Forum on Assessment. This site is devoted to fair and open testing.
• Publications from the Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education -The Gordon Commission generates publications on the  design and uses of educational assessment. It is an off-shoot of ETS.