Eduhound.com is a search engine for K12 education links.
Educating.net is a K12 education search engine plus a variety of other resources.
Searchedu.com limits its searches to pages from the .edu domain
Education Index is an annotated guide to be best education sites on the web. Good annotations. Some broken links. No search engine.
Education Planet covers a wide variety of subjects likely to interest educators.
Education World is a searchable database of more than 500,000 websites. Useful topic guide.
Eduseek.com contains a goodly number of thoughtfully selected websites.
The Gateway to Educational Materials is intended to be a one stop source for K12 educational materials. Endorsed by the Department of Education.
GEM, the Gateway to Educational Materials is sponsored by the National Library of Education and the Department of Education. Covers materials from government, nonprofit, and commercial sites.
Library in the Sky: Educational Web Resources is a collection of annotated links organized by topics, materials, and audience.
National Center for Educational Statistics covers education from K12 to colleges and universities.
The Wisconsin Center for Education Research is a leader in education research and evaluation. Good indicator of research on current problem areas.
The Yahoo! education web pages provide a good general introduction to a variety of web sources.
The Educational Software Directory is reasonably comprehensive, well-organized, and contains useful annotations.
EduHound.com is a comprehensive site or meta site with a large number of links.
Although somewhat promotional, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators leads to many useful sources by type of education and by type of resource. For example, note the "History & Social Studies" links. PBS has also attempted to provide a comprehensive site for pre K-12 educators.
StudyWeb provides links to a large number of k-12 resources. Good evaluations and well organized.
The Gateway to Educational Materials contains a large number of lesson plans. Very well organized and easy to use.
DiscoverySchool.com's Lesson Plans Library contains a large number of reasonably current lesson plans.
Scholastic.comprovides access to a reasonable number of good lesson plans.
The Education and Social Science Library at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has a Guide to Sources in Education that begins with a useful education class number table (DDC). The "College and University Rankings" available here is particularly useful.
Education Review, a journal of book reviews publishes review of recent books in education broadly defined. This is an international, Open Access periodical. Education Book Reviews[Michigan State University Libraries] provides brief reviews of new education books.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is the best known comprehensive site for web sites useful for curriculum and professional growth.
The Internet Public Library has an excellent pathfinder "Resources for Teachers."
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy [3d ed.] is available via Bartleby. Good internal linkage to related concepts.
The Social Sciences Libraries at Yale produce several excellent resource guides for social science disciplines. The Education guide is found here. It also includes selected print sources.
Admissionsoffice.com provides a variety of useful services, including college ratings'
The Association of American Colleges and Universities focuses on undergraduate liberal education. Note publications.
College and University Home Pages is an alphabetical listing.
Colleges Colleges is a directory of U.S. colleges.
The Higher Education Resource Hubis easily used and is useful for both current trends and problems as well as the history of higher education.
The NEA 2004 Almanac of Higher Education includes articles on such topics as salaries, employment, funding, bargaining, and governance.
The National Information Center for Higher Education Policymaking and Analysis provides authoritative data for states and counties on such topics as preparation, participation, affordability, employment and finance.
Princeton Review College Rankings are selective [less than 400 colleges], but are popular.
usuniversities.com is a comprehensive list. Search by state and by degree program.
The U.S. Department of Education web siteleads to much useful policy and statistical information. Educational statistics reside in the National Center for Education Statistics. Note the "Practitioners Home Page." The International Archive of Education Data is sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics and is hosted by KCPSR. Note too Education's"Federal Resources for Educational Excellence." Reports and publications from the 12 National Research and Development Centers of the Department may be found at the Center Research Site.
Educator's Reference Desk was formerly AskERIC. Also provides search access to the ERIC database.
The International Bureau of Education is affiliated with UNESCO. The Databanks contain reasonably detailed information on more than 150 countries. The "Web Resources & Links" page is also useful.
International Education Indicators from a variety of authoritative sources. Allows quick comparisons of education in the U.S. with that in selected foreign countries.
School Results.orgprovides No Child Left Behind data and analytical tools by state, district and school.
State Education Data Profiles includes K12, post secondary education, public libraries, and selected demographics for all 50 states.
The Center for American Progress, on its education pages provides a variety of sources on education policies and reports, often on a state by state basis.
The History of Education site in the Netherlands provides access to a variety of international resources.
Braintrack University Index isprobably the most complete site for world higher education URLs.
Study Abroad.com covers many educational opportunities in over 100 countries. Too much advertising is a liability.
UNESCO's Studying Abroad pages are a resource for students interested in study abroad. Covers opportunities in more than 100 countries.
USAID's Global Education Database contains data on primary, secondary, and tertiary education from a large number of countries.
The National Center for Educational Statistics hosts a substantial website for facts and data about education.
1. You have been asked to revise the education links for your public library. There is some interest in state standards and proficiency tests. Select and annotate at least three sites.
2. A high school teacher is looking for lesson plans on American government, in particular the role of the Supreme Court. What can you find? Which site was best?
3. A community member is trying to identify recent statistics on how well schools in your county are doing on the testing required by the No Child Left Behind Act. What can you find? Best sources?
4. A patron is looking for information on the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand) and the University of Utrecht. You might begin with the standards the International Handbook of Universities or the World of Learning. Also locate home pages for these schools and compare the information available from the hard copy reference sources with that on the web. Which source would you suggest to the next patron with a similar query?
*5. Male students appear to be less successful in academics than female students. What recent literature can you find that investigates the relationship between sex and success in high school school. Consider the ERIC data base, and PsychInfo as well as Education Full Text. Compare these works and their utility for this question.
6. A customer is interesting in learning about community colleges in your state that offer programs in dental assisting. You might begin with American Community Colleges [Ref L901 .A53 yr] or Peterson's Guide to Two Year Colleges [L 901 .P39]. Are there online equivalents to these sources? How useful are they?
7. A parent, moving to [the largest city in your state], wants to learn about private schools. Particular concerns are cost and quality. You might begin with the Handbook of Private Schools [Ref L 901 .H3], Peterson's Guide to Private Secondary Schools [L 900 .I 584], or Private Independent Schools [Ref L 901 .P68]. If you could afford but one of these titles, which one would you select? Why?
If you lack access to these traditional standards, are there web equivalents that would substitute?
8. A public library patron is interested in which state in your region spends the most money on K-12 education and which has experienced the greatest increase in funding in the last five years. You might begin with the Digest of Education Statistics [L 11 .D48 yr]. Other useful sources?
9. A parent of a soon to be high school graduate is interested in finding information on the Meredith College in North Carolina. You might begin with Comparative Guide to American Colleges [L 901 .C33], but look at the other college guides too. If your library could hold but one college guide, which one would you select? Why?
10. A grumpy associate professor wants to compare the salary of associate professors at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville with peer institutions in the Southeast. How do you identify peer institutions? You might begin with the Almanac of Higher Education [Ref LA 226 .A45 yr] or the SREB Fact Book on Higher Education [Ref LA 230 .Fr yr]. Other useful sources?
11. An [add particulars] student wishes to write a paper on sex education in high schools with some emphasis on "saying no to sex," but needs some background and guidance. What strategy would you suggest? Which sources might be useful?
12. A parent [add particulars] is interested in the difference between education and indoctrination. Which sources are most useful?
13. Because of a space problem, you have been asked to weed the reference stacks. You are currently in the Ls and have encountered the Encyclopedia of Education [Ref LB 15 .E47]. Should this item be retained or set to the stacks? Why?
14. A student has appeared at the reference desk with a list of terms that need to be defined. Three examples are: "in loco parentis" "ADL" and "scaffolding." You might begin with the Facts on File Dictionary of Education [Ref LB 15 .S43]. Other useful sources? Would the standard general dictionaries define these terms satisfactorily?
15. A school librarian is considering moving to California and needs to know their certification requirements. If she can practice in Tennessee, can she practice there? Most useful sources?
16. A business person in your community is interested in becoming a teacher, but has not taken education courses in college. He wonders if there is some alternative way to become a public school teacher.
17. A parent has come to the public library reference desk looking for help on finding scholarships for her son. He is a good student and a well regarded soccer player. She wonders about scholarship opportunities. Your strategy?
18. An student majoring in education would like to know which graduate program in that discipline is best. She is interested in higher education administration? What sources would be most useful in responding to this question? You might begin with web sites such as theCollege and University Rankings at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. How valid and reliable are these rankings?
19. As a reference librarian in a public library, you have been asked to review and update the test preparation collection. In particular, there have been complaints about the AP test
collection. How would you go about evaluating and updating this collection?
20. A high school student who is mobility impaired wishes to identify liberal arts colleges in your state especially suitable for her situation. Do the standard college guides provide this information? Can you provide a reasonable strategy and list?
21. A parent of an autistic child [add age] is looking for a program for her child in either your state or a neighboring one.
22. A parent is interested in learning more about all-year schools, particularly their effectiveness. What research literature can you find on this topic? Provide at least two recent citations that look useful. Which sources and access points were most useful?
23. A parent needs information on school uniforms, including assets and liabilities. What can you find that is objective and reasonably comprehensive?
Last major revision: August 2007.
