Saint Michael's College

Research by Subject

   Reference Sources

Education statistics of the United States
REF LA201.E38 2003

Encyclopedia of education (8 volumes)
REF LB15.E47 2003

Encyclopedia of special education (3 volumes)
REF LC4007.E53 1999

   Study Guides

Teaching With Technology GED597
http://academics.smcvt.edu/sburks/ged597_Fall06.htm

Educational Research GED558
http://academics.smcvt.edu/sburks/ged558_spring06.htm

Educational Research GED558-Summer 2006
http://academics.smcvt.edu/khindes/GED558.htm

Adolescent Development ED271
http://academics.smcvt.edu/khindes/adolescentdev.htm

   Internet Sources

• Associations, Organizations & Agencies

U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml?src=a

Education Week
http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html
A resource offered on Education Week’s home page, this site provides 200 links to major associations involved in education policy or education reform. An alphabetical listing of sites allows users to search known organizations, and a browsable list is available as well. Also included are links to government agencies involved in education and education reform.

Yahoo! Education: Organizations
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Organizations/
Like all Yahoo subject pages, this site offers a menu that classifies organizations by subject first and then includes an alphabetical list within each category. Categories include alumnai associations, arts, business, early childhood education, financial aid, higher education, K-12, languages, lesbian, gay and bisexual, literacy, math, music, online teaching and learning, women, and many others.

• Children's Literature

Association for Library Service to Children
http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/booklists/booklists.htm

Author Names Pronunciation Guide
http://www.teachingbooks.net/pronunciations.cgi#H 

Author Studies Homepage
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/read.jsp

Birth to 6 Booklists--Hennepin County Library
http://www.hclib.org/BirthTo6/Booklists.cfm

Camel’s Hump Radio
http://www.vpr.net/camelshump/

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html

The CCBC: Cooperative Children's Book Center
http://www.education.wisc.edu/ccbc/
The CCBC supports teaching, learning and research related to children’s and young adult literature.

Children's and Young Adults' Books & Media Awards
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/awards2.htm

Children’s Authors & Illustrators on the Web
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html

Children's Books
http://www.slco.lib.ut.us/children.htm

Children's Books UK Info
http://www.cbuk.info/

Children's Literature Authors and Illustrators
http://www.clau.org/authgen.htm

The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award
http://www.dcfaward.org/  

The Five Owls
http://www.fiveowls.com/

Green Mountain Book Award
http://dol.state.vt.us/gopher_root5/libraries/gmba/GMBA.HTM

The Horn Book
http://www.hbook.com/

Literature for Children
http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/
A collection of the treasures of children's literature published largely in the United States and Great Britain from before 1850 to beyond 1950.

Oyate
http://www.oyate.org/

Picturing Books: Using Picture Books
http://picturingbooks.imaginarylands.org/using/using.html

Red Clover Award
http://www.mothergooseprograms.org/lit_red_clover_overview.php

SurLaLune Fariy Tales
http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/
A portal to the realm of fairy tale and folklore studies featuring 45 annotated fairy tales, including their histories, similar tales across cultures, and over 1,400 illustrations.

S.C.O.R.E. CyberGuides: Teacher Guides and Student Activities
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
Sponsored by Schools of California Online Resources for Education, each guide has a student and teacher edition, standards, an assignment and process by which it may be completed, and teacher-selected websites. The site focuses on literary titles; teaching activities and ideas are often interdisciplinary in nature.

Starfall
http://www.starfall.com/
Where children have fun learning to read; primarily designed for K-2 grades.

TeachingBooks
http://www.teachingbooks.net/booklists.cgi
Sharing the spirit of children's literature with thematic booklists

Vermont Reads
http://www.vermonthumanities.org/

Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/index.html

• Comprehensive Education Sites

Education World
http://www.education-world.com/
This site is a comprehensive website with a K-12 focus. It offers materials on curriculum, lesson planning, model schools, employment listings, school and university directories, international education organizations, and other resources through a search engine database that indexes 115,000 educational sites.

The Literacy Web
http://www.literacy.uconn.edu 
This site offers an extensive collection of online literacy-related materials covering a full range of topics from assessment to technology, along with curriculum links for preschoolers through adults, including ESL.

Yahoo! Education Index
http://dir.yahoo.com/education/index.html
Listed in categories by level and subject with many links available for each item. Always up-to-date and maintained and providing quality websites.

• Comprehensive K-12 Curriculum Resources

A-to-Z Teacher Stuff
http://atozteacherstuff.com/
This site is teacher-created and offers lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, teacher discussion forums, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

Ask ERIC Lesson Plans
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml
The Lesson Plans contain 1,000 lesson plans written and submitted by teachers from all over the US. By searching the archive, one can link to other sources of Internet lesson plans.

CEC Lesson Plans
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/
This site includes more than 600 teacher-created lesson plans. They are organized by major subject area, then by grade levels.

EDSITEment-The Best of the Humanities on the Web
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment contains references to resources available through government, nonprofit, and commercial entities.

Educational Software Preview Guide
http://www-ed.fnal.gov/espg/
ESPG  is designed especially for educators seeking software for preview and lists over 1,000 titles of favorably reviewed software for PreK-12 classroom use. Information indicated for each title includes platform, grade level, instructional mode, a brief description of each product, and publisher contact information.

The Gateway to Educational Materials
http://www.thegateway.org 
Sponsored by the US Department of Education, this site provides thousands of selected links from various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.

i-Safe America
http://www.isafe.org/
The leader in Internet safety education

Lesson Plans Library
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/
A categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth

The Lessons Plan Page
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
Claiming to be ‘home of the largest collection of lesson plans on the Internet', this teacher-centered site is very well organized and easily searchable. Users who click on a subject are offered subdivisions by grade-level. Lessons generally focus on the elementary level.

Math is Fun
http://www.mathisfun.com/ 
Combines mathematics and fun at basic skill levels.

NWREL’s Library in the Sky
http://www.nwrel.org/sky/
Sponsored by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, this site pulls together 10,000 links to educational resources for students, teachers, parents, and librarians. Students can also search under the "Fun" topic for educational games, electronic penpals, discussion groups and virtual field trips.

Read, Write, Think
http://www.readwritethink.org
Provides educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.

Smithsonian Education
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/
Smithsonian Education represents their ongoing support of academic endeavors. The Educators section offers many fine models of lesson plans in relation to discipline and grade-level standards.

Teachable Moment
http://www.teachablemoment.org/
TeachableMoment.Org provides educators with timely teaching ideas to encourage critical thinking on issues of the day and foster a positive classroom environment. Topical activities are available for elementary school, middle school, and high school levels.

Teachers Helping Teachers
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/
This free, nonprofit site provides basic teaching tips to inexperienced teachers, new ideas in methodologies for all teachers, and a forum for teachers to share their ideas and expertise with colleagues around the world.

Teachnet.Com
http://www.teachnet.com/
Started in August 1995 by an elementary school teacher and her husband, this site includes lesson plans, curriculum-related links to subjects, and a Teacher-2-Teacher discussion list. Lesson plans, teaching tips, and classroom techniques are the primary focus.

Teach-nology.com
http://www.teach-nology.com/
TeAch-nology.com offers teachers free access to 19,000 lesson plans, 5,600 printable worksheets, over 200,000 reviewed web sites, 50+ teaching articles, 60 teaching themes, rubrics, educational games, teaching tips, advice from expert teachers, current education news, teacher downloads, web quests, and teacher tools for creating exciting classroom instruction.

Thinkfinity: Literacy, Education and Technology
http://marcopolo-education.org/ 
Thinkfinity features seven content Web sites with lesson plans, student interactive content, downloadable worksheets, panel-reviewed Web sites, and additional resources created by the nation's leading education organizations.

The WebQuest Page
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity for students, which includes information from the World Wide Web. Short term quests lasting 1-3 class periods are focused on learners acquiring a new body of knowledge and digesting it. Long-term quests last from a week to a month and are designed to have students learn and integrate knowledge. They will be able to analyze content, transform it and demonstrate comprehension in a public setting.

Web Sites and Resources for Teachers
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
Created by two elementary education professors at California State University, Northridge, this site offers curriculum resources for Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Science, Art, Music, Just for Kids, Languages, Physical Education, New Sites, Our Books, and Awards. Under these categories one finds lesson plans, instructional materials, online activities and projects, and virtual trips to museums and countries around the world.

Worksheet Library
http://www.worksheetlibrary.com/
Worksheet Library is home to over 5000 printable K-6 worksheets for teachers, parents, and homeschoolers. Many are available at no charge.

WWW4teachers
http://www.4teachers.org
This site contains many tools for teachers. The Trackster search engine allows teachers to organize and annotate online resources, which become part of the database. Instructors can find resources by keyword, subject and grade, themes and standards. .

Yahooligans
http://www.yahooligans.com/
The Yahoo-type site for kids is a great place for educators to find age-appropriate Internet materials to supplement their lesson plans. Subject menus include Around the World, Arts & Entertainment, Computers & Games, School Bell, Science & Nature, and Sports & Recreation. T

• Educational Directories

American School Directory
http://www.asd.com/asd/asdhome.htm
The American School Directory provides a searchable database that allows users to locate Web sites for more than 70,000 schools. One can search by school name, state, or American School Directory number. The site also offers county or district comparisons of schools once users select a city and a state. This is a good site, however, for parents or student teachers looking for employment or relocation information.

American Universities
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/american-universities.html
Maintained by Mike Conlon at the University of Florida, this site contains an alphabetical list of colleges and universities in the United States. The site also links to a list of international universities, Canadian universities, and community colleges.

College and University Home Pages-Alphabetical Listing
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cdemello/univ.html
This site links users to the Web sites of most colleges and universities. The list now contains more than 3,000 entries. Colleges and universities are organized alphabetically and geographically. This Web site can be a valuable supplement to college catalogs and print directories, allowing users to locate admissions, departmental, and faculty information at numerous academic institutions’ sites.

College & University Rankings-University of Illinois
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/edx/rankings.htm
This site pulls together and lists the better-known ranking Web sites, classifying links by undergraduate and graduate level programs. The Caution and Controversy page provides links to authoritative, informed discussions about college and university ranking online.

The Virtual Reference Desk
http://www.webjunction.org/do/Navigation?category=11649
This site features AskA Services that offer assistance for students or parents rather than educators. Users can send questions to this service to find information and answers about school subjects and research topics. Through the AskA Locator service, one can find and contact qualified experts by consulting a database and then filling out a form. This service is meant to supplement local library and media information resources for students and teachers.

• General Sites

The Educational CyberPlayGround
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com
This site provides a "webliography" of links to educational resources on various subjects. A fun and easy way to navigate the Web for students, teachers, and new Web users.

GED 556
http://academics.smcvt.edu/kschaw/sites.htm
A list of notable sites compiled by Kathy Schaw who teaches GED556

Rubistar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.

• Higher Education

Directory of State Higher Education Agencies
http://www.sheeo.org
Sponsored by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO), a nonprofit, nationwide association of chief executive officers serving on statewide coordinating boards and governing boards of postsecondary education, this resource provides addresses and contact information for state higher education agencies.

Higher Education Research Institute
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/index.php 
The Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) is based in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. It serves as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in postsecondary education.

World Lecture Hall
http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/index.html
Sponsored by the University of Texas, this site contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials. An extensive list of academic subjects is arranged alphabetically. The site also includes a translation service for items in different languages. This site allows users to examine syllabi in a variety of academic courses, shows the type of Web-based instruction occurring at various institutions, and provides access to ongoing distance-education initiatives worldwide.

• Professional Organizations

Vermont Institutes
http://www.vermontinstitutes.org/
A partnership supporting teacher quality and school leadership in Vermont.

VITA - LEARN
http://homepage.vita-learn.org/Pages/index
VITA-Learn is a non-profit, charitable corporation whose mission is to promote and encourage the use of information technology to meet Vermont's educational goals and standards.

• Publications---- E-Journals, News Publications, E-Zines

AERA-SIG: Education Journals and News
http://aera-cr.asu.edu/ejournals/
Sponsored by Arizona State University’s College of Education, this Web page offers 24 direct links to selected e-journals in education. The site administrators have included only links to electronic journals that are scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost.

Australian Journals Online-Education
http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/ausejour/educate.html
Sponsored by the National Library of Australia, a body similar to the US Library of Congress, this site has more than 40 online Australian titles devoted to education issues. It provides an alphabetical list that links to each title’s URL, ISSN number, contact person and annotated descriptions.

• Standards, Student Achievement & Program Evaluation

The Education Trust
http://www.edtrust.org
Promotes high academics in schools and colleges serving low-income minorities.

CEC Information Center on Disabilities and Gifted Education
http://ericec.org
Information and Resources for students with disabilities and gifted students.

International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement
http://www.iea.nl
Conducts comparative educational studies to aid in education reformation.

Laboratory for Student Success
http://www.temple.edu/LSS
Research for human development and education.

Learning First Alliance
http://www.learningfirst.org
"Dedicated to improving student learning in America’s public schools."

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning
http://www.mcrel.org
McREL’s Mission Statement: Making a Difference in the Quality of Education and Learning for All…

National Assessment Governing Board
http://nagb.org
Created by Congress to evaluate schools and their progress with links to "The Nation’s Report Card".

National Center for Research and Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing
http://www.cse.ucla.edu
A site for parents, students, and teachers alike with a library of resources, job postings, standardized testing information, and links to related sites.

National Council for the Social Studies
http://www.socialstudies.org/standards/
A site that highlights the standards for social studies curriculums, as well as an online bookstore, conferences, a discussion board, associated groups and the latest news.

National and International Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
http://www.ascd.org
This official site of the ASCD includes the latest news from the organization. Listings of featured resources and publications, upcoming conferences, forums, and links to related sites.

North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
http://www.ncrel.org
Working toward improving the nation’s schools.

Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
http://www.nwrel.org
Working to improve education for people of all ages through assessment and evaluation

RAND Education
http://www.rand.org/centers/education
Dedicated to research concerning reform in public schools. Also, describes the assessments the RAND Organization conducts.

Trends in International Mathematics and Sciences Study
http://www.timss.org
Compares state math and science achievement scores with 40 other countries.

• Statistical Sources

The Condition of Education (Annual)
http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
A link to the National Center for Education Statistics site, this is the electronic version of an annual report submitted to Congress. This comprehensive compendium describes the current status and recent progress of education in the US, summarizing major education statistics on the status and progress at all levels of schooling, from preprimary to graduate.

Grapevine
http://www.grapevine.ilstu.edu/
Maintained by a professor of educational administration and foundations at Illinois State University, this site offers a national database of support for higher education. By clicking on a particular state, one receives a statistical report for appropriations of tax funds for operating expenses of higher education, 1997-998 and 1998-99 for that state.

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
http://nces.ed.gov/
Part of the US Department of Education, the NCES collects, analyzes, and disseminates data and statistics about education in the US. It contains an archive of government statistical reports, most of which are available free of charge in .pdf format.