| Education Journals |
| American Educator |
| American Teacher |
| Chronicle of Higher Education |
| Education Week |
| Principal Online |
| Reading Online |
| Teacher Magazine |
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| Educational Research/Test Locators |
| AACTE Policy Clearinghouse Provides access to information on education policy in the US at the national, regional, and state levels. |
| Child
Care and Early Education Research Connections A comprehensive and easily searchable collection of nearly 9,000 resources aimed at child care, early education, and the use of research in policy making. |
| The American School Directory Provides information on over 100,000 K-12 schools, including address, phone, grade levels, number of students, etc. Subscription required to access. |
| Demographics of Schools and Districts Statistics and graphs about public schools' performance, demographics, staffing, and safety. Local, state, and national data. |
| Condition of Education Statistics and charts for indicators assessing the condition of education. |
| Digest of Education Statistics |
| United States Department of Education Homepage |
| National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES) This is the primary organization that collects, collates, analyzes and reports statistics on American education. |
| National
Assessment of Educational Progress The Nation's Report Card |
| MiddleWeb Exploring middle school and middle grades reform. |
| PALS Performance Assessment Links in
Science An interactive resource bank for science performance assessment tasks. |
| Test Locators |
| Buros Institute of Mental
Measurements Information tests, test reviews or test publishers. |
| Educational Testing
Service (ETS) A library of over 20,000 test and research instruments. |
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| Associations |
| ACEI The Association for Childhood Education International |
| The Council for Exceptional Children |
| Georgia Association of Educators Online advocating excellence in public education |
| International Reading Association |
| NAEYC The National Association for the
Education of Young Children Promoting excellence in early childhood education. |
| National Association of Elementary School Principals |
| The National Middle School Association |
| National Association of Secondary School Principals |
| NCSS National Council for the
Social Studies Largest association in the country devoted to social studies education. |
| NCTE National Council of Teachers of English |
| NCTM National Council of Teachers of Mathematics |
| NSTA National Science Teachers Association Promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. |
| National Association of State Boards of Education |
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| State of Georgia Education |
| Georgia Department of Education |
| GACE (Georgia
Assessments for the Certification of Educators) This replaces the Praxis exams beginning in Fall 2006. The GACE home page offers plentiful information. |
| Sample
GACE Test Preparation Material Although from another state, this site helps people prepare for exams similar to GACE. |
| Georgia
Education A list of sites from various education-related state government agencies and departments |
| Georgia Learning Connections Georgia Learning Connections is the Georgia Department of Education's curriculum Web site integrating the Quality Core Curriculum standards, lesson plans, Web resources, assessments, plus thousands more resources for Georgia teachers. |
| Georgia Education
Initiatives Learn about collaborations between the Department of Education and agencies in Georgia to provide quality instructional materials to educators. |
| Georgia Professional Standards Commission
(PSC) Home Page Information on certification and teacher preparation, ethics, job searching, and more. |
| TeachGeorgia Available positions in Georgia's public schools. This is the official teacher recruitment web site for Georgia's public schools. |
| Professional Association of Georgia Educators (PAGE) |
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| U.S. Department of Education/ERIC |
| U.S. Department of Education |
| ERIC Education Resources Information Center is the public Web site for searching nearly 1.2 million journal article and book citations going back to 1966. |
| National Center for Education Statistics |
| Educator's Reference Desk (formerly
ASKERIC) an Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators and parents throughout the World. |
| The Gateway to Educational Materials a special project of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. |
| ERIC Thesaurus search wizard to help build a search query. |
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| Children's Book Awards |
| Caldecott Medal Home Page |
| Newbery Medal Home Page |
| Coretta Scott King Award |
| Teachers' Top 100 Books |
| Kids' Top 100 Books |
| Best Books for Young Adults |
| Focus on Latino People, History, and Culture |
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| Sources of Lesson Plans/Teacher Resources |
| A to Z Teacher Stuff |
| Behavior Management Ideas Strategies and tips for effective classroom leadership -- practical and witty. There's a lot to browse here. |
| Blue Web'n
Lesson Plans Library Despite its cryptic name, this is a useful collection of lesson plans for a variety of subject areas and grade levels. |
| Busy Teacher's WebSite K-12 |
| Children's Literature Web
Guide Organizes resources in the area of children's literature that are useful to teachers and parents. Also provides teaching ideas, as well as a network of links for further exploration of resources. |
| Connections+ A directory of Internet resources for teachers. Includes lesson plans, activities, and curriculum resources. |
| Educational Psychology Topics Hundreds of links on topics such as development of students, diversity, learning theories, instructional design, and assessing learning. |
| Educator's Reference Desk More than 2,000 lesson plans written by teachers for many disciplines and many levels. |
| EduHound Resources arranged in dozens of categories. |
| Federal Resources for Educational Excellence Hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources, organized by subject. Use the site map link. |
| National Science Digital Library Created by the National Science Foundation to provide organized access to high quality resources and tools that support innovations in teaching and learning at all levels of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. |
| National Council of
Teachers of Mathematics: Illuminations For K-12: Activities, lessons, NCTM Standards, links to hundreds of online resources. |
| Internet Mathematics Library Math topics and resources for all educational levels. |
| Middle School Math and Science Lessons From the National Science Digital Library. |
| Lesson Plans Library at Discovery Channel School |
| EdHelper.com Lesson plans, teaching resources, WebQuests, latest education headlines. |
| K-12 Sources -- Curriculum Lesson Plans for History/Social Studies, K-12 |
| Lesson Plans Page |
| Awesome Library - Lesson Plans |
| PBS Teachers Multimedia resources and professional development for K-12 teachers. |
| Rethinking Schools Founded by activist teachers, this organization advocates the reform of elementary and secondary education, with a strong emphasis on issues of urban schools, equity, and social justice. |
| The Solutionsite.com Lesson plans created and organized in a teacher-centered manner. |
| Surfing for ABC's Lesson Plan |
| Teacher.net Lesson Plans Another searchable database of lesson plans. |
| Teacher's Edition An online magazine that provides K-12 teachers with useful classroom ideas. |
| Teachers at Work Internet resources of value to teachers. Created by Mark Treadwell, an educational technology consultant and educator. |
| Teachers Helping Teachers |
| The Lexile Framework for Reading The Lexile scale measures both reader ability and text difficulty. Here you can search tens of thousands of children's books for their Lexile measure, or search by Lexile measure for appropriately challenging books. |
| WebQuests This site discusses the rationale and the design process. This site has tutorials, examples, and background information. This site compiles many examples created by teacher education students. |
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