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thorough list of key education issues in America today. The resources include
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Assessment
Assessing and Addressing the "Testing Backlash"
Practical advice and current public opinion research for business coalitions and standards advocates by the Business Roundtable.
Assessment & Evaluation on the Internet
This Web-site provides an extensive list of ERIC Internet resources for assessment and evaluation.
Ericae.net
The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Assessment and evaluation provides useful
information including the document "Assessment and Evaluation on the Internet."
Glossary of Measurement Terms
This on-line glossary of measurement terms is provided by the
publishers, Harcourt, Inc.
High Stakes Testing for Pre K-12
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) is the nation's largest professional organization devoted to
the scientific study of education. This Web-site provides a position
paper on high-stakes testing. The paper represent a professional consensus concerning sound and
appropriate test use in education and psychology.
Personality and IQ Tests
This is a fun Web-site that provides many on-line tests including IQ
tests, relationships tests, and career tests.
The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements has a half-century history of serving the public interest and advancing
the field of measurement. This Web-site includes the famous Mental Measurements
Yearbook of Tests in Print.
How High is High Enough
How High is High Enough is an Achieve Policy Brief that addresses the issue of education standards and school reform.
Assistive
Technologies
Kurzweil Education Systems
Lernout & Hauspie is the world’s leading provider of speech
and language technology products, solutions, and services to
businesses and individuals worldwide. Their mission is to
break down language barriers through advanced translation technology
and to enable people to interact by voice with the machines.
Laureate Learning Systems
Founded in 1982 by two speech-language pathologists, Laureate Learning Systems publishes computer software for
children and adults with disabilities. Laureate's programs are appropriate for a wide range of people from those
with severe-profound developmental disabilities to mild language-learning disabilities.
Lexia Learning Systems
Lexia Learning Systems develops software to help children and adults learn to read, especially those who have had
trouble learning in the past. Lexia uses phonics-based interactive reading and diagnostic assessment tools.
Welcome to Bobby 3.2
Bobby is a tool for Web page authors that will help them identify changes to their pages needed so users
with disabilities can more easily use their Web pages.
Alliance for Technology Access
The Alliance for Technology Access (ATA) is a network of community-based dedicated to providing information and
support services to children and adults with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard, assistive, and
information technologies.
Forgotten Kids
This site has a number of useful links including the assistive technology
page and links to sites that
offer free or reduced cost computers to aid with learning disabilities or those who cannot otherwise purchase a
computer.
Character
Education
Wa. State Partnership on Character Education
The Washington State Partnership on Character Education began in
1996 funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
The Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction coordinates
this four-year project whose purpose is to develop a rich resource
of community-based models for infusing a local definition of
character into Washington schools.
A World of Prevention
A World of Prevention from the Texas Youth Commission provides a directory of programs, research, references and resources
dedicated to the prevention of child and adolescent problems and the
promotion of youth development in families, schools and communities.
ESL: English as a Second Language
National Center for ESL Literacy Education
The National Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE), the only national information center focusing on the
language and literacy education of adults and out-of-school youth learning
English works to support those
providing such services.
Aardvark's English Forum
This site is a place on the web for students and teachers of English
as a foreign language (EFL/ESL). There are interactive exercises,
message boards, schools directories, ELT books, and masses of web
resources, contacts and links.
About.com: K-12 ESL
About.com provides K-12 ESL learning and teaching resources including: games, lesson plans, songs, fun activities and teaching
techniques, as well as other sites of interest to ESL educators.
Bangkok Post Lessons
This Web-site is designed primarily for those whose first language
is not English. Bangkok Post includes lessons in reading newspapers for
ESL learners.
Common Errors in English
Deviations from the standard use of English are explored on this site.
Dave's Cafe
Described at "the Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!"
This is a good Web-site for lesson
plans, news and discussion for the ESL teacher.
English as a Second Language
English as a Second Language, by Rong-Chang Li, is an extensive ESL
Web-site for learners who want to learn English through the Web.
EnglishPractice.com
This Web-site is for students who want to practice their English.
English-Zone.com
English-Zone.Com began as a site for students and teachers of English, but has rapidly expanded to include
native speakers of English brushing up on their English grammar skills and children looking for a safe and
educational site to visit.
ESL PartyLand
You can take quizzes, meet other ESL students and teachers, and do lots of other interesting things
on this Web-site.
Everything ESL
Lessons
Everything ESL Lessons provides content based ESL lesson plans for beginning through intermediate students.
Knowledge Explorer: Exploring English
Come to the Web-site to explore the wonders and quirks of the English Language including the parts of speech, sentences, style
guidelines, usage, punctuation, spelling, and more.
LinguaCenter
The LinguaCenter is the multimedia language laboratory of the Division of English as an International Language of
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign..
NABE
The National Association for Bilingual Education helps school districts meet
their responsibility to provide equal education opportunity to
limited English proficient children.
OBEMLA
The Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
provides national leadership in promoting high quality education for
the nation's population of English language learners (ELLs).
OMSLE
Office of Multicultural Student Language Education assist schools
and districts in ensuring that language enriched pupils (LEP)
receive understandable instruction. Services are provided in the
form of technical assistance by telephone, on-site visits, workshops
and presentations.
PEAK English
Take an online English course, play language games, and make friends from around the
world with this Web-site.
Spoken American English
This Web-site reveals American English as it is spoken including
contractions and shortcuts used in daily speech.
TESOL
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
articulates and advances standards for professional preparation and
employment, continuing education, and student programs and links
groups worldwide to enhance communication among language
specialists.
Tools for College Writing
Although this Web-site was designed for use by basic writing
students at Cabrillo College, Aptos, California, the site is
valuable for ESL students everywhere. The site is designed to help ESL students and students with learning disabilities and features an on-screen,
online dictionary.
VOA Special Broadcast
Voice of America (VOA) has been around for a long time. This
radio show requires Real Player and broadcasts news from
around the world.
Functional
Behavior Assessment
Addressing Student Problem Behavior
This Web-site provides an IEP Team's Introduction To Functional Behavioral Assessment
and Behavior Intervention Plans.
Behavior Analysis Home Page
From the Univ. of Southern Florida., this home page provides a low-response cost outlet to some of the interesting things that
are available on the Internet relating to behavior analysis
Functional Behavior Worksheet
From Cooperative Educational Service Agency No. 7 in Wisconsin, this is a helpful worksheet for writing a
functional behavior assessment plan.
Gender
Issues
Gender Issues in Distance Education
From the International Council for Distance Education, this Web-site offers a discussion board that addresses the gender issue in Distance Education.
ESEA Tackles Gender Issues
From the AERA.NET Issues: Education & Society, this article addresses gender issues and legislation.
Home Schooling
Home Schooling: Home School Headlines
The Web-site provides free online publications to support, inform &
empower home school students.
Home School Legal Defense Association
Existing to defend and protect the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children, HSLDA
is providing extensive on-line resources to the home school community.
Home Schooling and Socialization of Children
This Digest will offer some background information on home schooling and discuss conflicting viewpoints culled from
research on the socialization of home-schooled children.
Inclusion
Consortium on Inclusive Schooling Practices
The Consortium on Inclusive Schooling Practices represents a collaborative effort to build the capacity of state
and local education agencies to serve children and youth with and without disabilities in school and community
settings. The project is funded by the U. S. Department of Education, Office of
Special Education Programs to Allegheny University of the Health Sciences, Allegheny Campus.
Including Your Child
Including Your Child is a booklet by the U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Research and Improvement
that gives information for
parents of special need children.
Inclusion Education
This Web-site is designed for general education teachers, special education teachers, parents, and school staff to
help provide some answers about how inclusive education can be
accomplished.
Inclusion School as a Caring Community
This site provides resources for inclusion education including a handbook, field notes from teacher interviews,
materials and discussion groups.
Project CHOICE
Project CHOICE, (Children Have Opportunities in Inclusion Community Environment and Schools) is a "least
restrictive environment" initiative funded by the Illinois State Board of Education. There are two components to
the Project: CHOICES, which supports school-age children; and Early CHOICES, which supports preschool-age children.
School and Community Inclusion Program
SCIP is a combination of federal and state grants which promote the full inclusion of students with disabilities in
public elementary and secondary schools. This site supports the development and field-testing of building
level planning processes to establish and expand inclusive educational programs for all students, including those
with severe disabilities.
Layered Curriculum
This Web-site is described at "the gateway to survival in a mixed-ability classroom". The site includes articles,
lesson plans, discussion and teaching strategies.
Educational
Journals
Current Issues in Education
Current Issues in Education is a peer-reviewed scholarly electronic journal published by the College of Education
at Arizona State University.
EdWeek
Edweek is accurately called ‘ American Education’s Online
Newspaper of Record.” Edweek
provides a rich resource of content including reviewed newspaper
articles, special reports, Teacher Magazine and an educational
glossary.
Education
Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)
EPAA is a publication of the Education Policy Studies Laboratory,
College of Education, Arizona State University.
EPAA is a peer-reviewed scholarly electronic journal
publishing the on-line journal since 1993.
Research
The American Educational Research Association
AERA is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.
Office
of Educational Research and Improvement
OERI conducts a full range of activities including supporting basic and applied education research and
analyzing education statistics.
AskERIC
ERIC is the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally-funded national information system that provides, through its 16 subject-specific clearinghouses, associated adjunct clearinghouses, and support components, a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.
Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll
The 29th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup poll of the public's
attitudes toward the public schools is available at this link.
Educational Research and Improvement Reports and Studies
From the Dept. of Education, this Web-site collects a variety of reports and studies including at-risk students, class size, disabilities,
home schooling and more.
School
To Work
School-to-Work
This site is designed and maintained by the National School-To-Work Learning
and Information Center and includes resources, a Listserv, templates,
state and federal information.
School-to-Work
Intermediary Project
This Web-site supports Intermediaries Projects which are staffed organizations that connect schools and
other youth-preparation organizations with workplaces and other
community resources.
All
Means All School-to-Work
This Web-site offers information, resources, and strategies that
celebrate the efforts of local school-to-work partners across the
country who are committed to doing "whatever it takes" to
ensure access to and choice by all learners within their local
school-to-work system.
National
Center for Research in Vocational Education
NCRVE is the nation's largest center for research, development,
dissemination, and outreach in work-related education. NCRVE has
been headquartered
at the University of California, Berkeley since 1988.
School-to-Work
Online
School-To-Work is a both a national and New York State initiative
designed to improve education for all students of all ages and all
ability levels.
School-to-Work
Resources
From Department of Workforce Education and Development, Southern
Illinois University at Carbondale, this Web-site offers publications,
national organizations, state School-to-Work Initiatives and
teaching materials.
Social
Skills
LD
Online Social Skills
From LD Online, this Web-site includes many links for developing and
teaching social skills and a bulletin board on Social Skills and
Learning Disabilities.
About.Com
Social Skills
Written for Canadian teachers, this handout provides information on
enhancing social skills, teaching activities and related links.
The
Art of Teaching Social Skills
Specialist Dr. Tracy Heibeck provides information on Teaching Social
Skills at this link including a question and answer section.
Violence
and Safety
School Safety Resources
This Web-site provides publications from the Office of Justice Programs agencies, U.S. Department of Justice.
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
The Center for the Study of Prevention of Violence organizes experts from a range of disciplines including public health, criminology, ecology, and developmental psychology, to review the latest research on the causes of youth violence in the nation's schools and communities.
Safe Schools/Healthy Students Action Center
The Action Center is the product of a partnership between the Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, and Justice. The National Mental Health Association and the National Association of School Psychologists were awarded a cooperative agreement to administer the Safe Schools/Healthy Student Action Center.
The SafetyZone
The National Resource Center for Safe Schools works with schools, communities, state and local education agencies, and other concerned individuals and agencies to create safe learning environments and prevent school violence.
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