-WWW Education Links-

National Organizations

• American Association of School Administrators
• Association for Childhood Education International
• American Educational Research Association
• American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
• American Library Association
• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
• Council for Exceptional Children
• Computer-Using Educators (CUE)
• Consortium for School Networking (CoSN)
• International Reading Association (IRA)
• International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
• Music Educators National Conference (MENC)
• National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
• National Art Education Association (NAEA)
• National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC)
• National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)
• National Council for Social Studies (NCSS)
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
• National School Boards Association (NSBA)
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
• National Parent Teacher Association (PTA)

Additional Links of Interest to Teachers

Armadillo's K-12 WWW Resources -Curriculum resources grouped by subject area, as well as links to online museums, field trips, and periodicals.

Ask ERIC Virtual Library -Lesson plans, Ask ERIC's collections, search ERIC database, etc.studies, science, and mathematics, with links to "Internet in the Classroom Resources."

CollegeNet -Every high school senior's dream site for doing college research. Anyone may browse thousands of institutions of higher learning by various criteria, including location, tuition, and enrollment. After entering some search criteria, a complete list of matching schools appears including name, address, phone, fax, yearly tuition, and enrollment.

Computer as Learning Partner -An ongoing educational research project at the Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley dedicated to informing and improving middle school science instruction.

Daily Report Card -Online newspaper published three times weekly concerning progress toward national education goals. Excellent resource!

Education-related sites -Yahoo is the most popular search engine on the Web. They maintain a continually-updated list of sites related to all areas of education.

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse -Resources for K-12 math and science teachers..

Environmental Education Network -A clearinghouse for all environmental education information and materials.

From Now On -Written by veteran school Internet consultant Jamieson McKenzie, Ed.D., From Now On is an online publication educators will appreciate. Every month, McKenzie addresses a hot issue of interest to Internet-using K-12 educators.

Grants -If you're looking for grant money, check these sites:

• The Foundation Center
• American Communications Assn. Grants and Fellowships Online Index

Institute for the Transfer of Technology to Education -This is maintained by the National School Boards' Association as they attempt to bring education into the modern world.

MCREL Lesson Plans -"Highly recommended, all subjects, links to many lesson plan sites." -Classroom Connect Infolist

MidLink Magazine -Electronic magazine for kids in middle school.

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards -Information on obtaining national teacher certification.

NYSC&TE - New York State Association for Computers and Technologies in Education. This is the statewide organization which deals with computers and other learning technologies in the classroom.

NY State Education Department -New York State Education Department resources. A wealth of material, including up-to-the-minute state aid information for every district in the state and current SED news/reports. This site is a "must see" for all NY educators.

Online Educator -Hot links and sample articles from the print version of Online Educator.

Pathways to School Improvement -Lots of information about school change presented by the North Central Regional Education Laboratory.

Peterson's Education Center - "Wow. It's not often that information resource companies give you full access to their material via the Web: There's still no effective way to make money off of it. Peterson's does, however, providing a huge stock of info about schools, summer programs, and business management. As with most pages, this site is under continual construction; you'll frequently be greeted by a "We're sorry..." message. But the areas that *are* fully implemented - such as those with Graduate School information - are gorgeous, complete, and easy-to-use. Peterson's Education Center is a gem that will only get better - until you have to pay for it." The Net

Scholastic Central -A variety of resources for teachers with links to helpful education resources.

Special Ed. Online -Special Education/disabilities resources. Maintained by the University of Kansas.

Teaching with The Internet -Thousands of K-12 schools worldwide make it a priority to offer Internet access to their students and staff. How can educators integrate this resource into their curriculum?

Technology & Learning Magazine -This Web site is not just a "rehash" of the paper version. It's worth a look!

The Hub - A growing collection of educational resources and services for Mathematics, Science, and Technology educators. Operated by TERC on behalf of the Regional Alliance, the Hub houses articles, curriculum, newsletters, projects, reports, and software.

Urban Education Web - "Learning about learning: that's what the Urban Education Web is about. It's part of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a well-known and highly-respected database of studies on education. It, in turn, is funded by the U.S. Department of Education. All these layers of support point to two attributes of this Web site: it's densely academic, and it's excellently supported. Here, you'll not only find out if the government has published information about gangs in the schools, you'll probably find the monographs themselves, hyperlinked internally and with other documents. I don't know what poor souls are sitting in a windowless office doing all this, but they deserve to be thanked." The Net

US Department of Education -US Dept. of Ed. information and resources.

Wentworth Educational Web -Wealth of all sorts of K-12 information and curriculum links maintained by the publishers of Classroom Connect newsletter.

World Lecture Hall -The World Lecture Hall, produced and actively maintained by the University of Texas at Austin, holds a large collection of university and college web pages used to deliver course content. Over 80 subject areas are covered, from accounting to zoology. Individual course pages include links to syllabi, assignments, lecture notes, exams, class calendars, multimedia textbooks, and other related materials. The Lecture Hall gives instructors a glimpse into the possibilities of delivering course material via the Internet.