Education Sources

Academic Advising Resources
For students as well as their advisors, this site is an index to academic advising sites on the Internet, including handbooks, career resources, and educational resources.

American School Directory
Information on all of America's 106,000 K-12 schools, including addresses, phone numbers, profiles of the student population, fax numbers, calendars, and more.

Braintrack: University Index
Links to higher education institutions worldwide, including universities, colleges, and polytechnics.

Children's Literature Web Guide
Assorted information on children's literature, including a list of children's book awards and their past and present winners.

Chronicle of Higher Education
Access via password, for reference desk use only. The full text of the Chronicle as it appears in print, plus 5 years' worth of full text back issues. Searchable.

College and University Home Pages
Organized both geographically and alphabetically, this page provides links to thousands of 'home pages' of colleges and universities worldwide.

College and University Rankings
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, links to sites ranking colleges and universities (undergraduate, graduate, business, law, worldwide).

CollegeNet
Links to colleges and programs with pages on the Web, searchable by category.

College View
Another online database of college and university information.

Community Learning Network
Designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom.

Condition of Education
The state of education in the United States (as published annually). Available from the National Center of Education Statistics' publications site.

Country EFA Reports
Reports on "education for all" in countries around the world, from UNESCO.

Digest of Education Statistics
National statistics on education, published annually by the US Department of Education. Available from National Center of Education Statistics' publications list.

Distance Education in Higher Education Institutions
Data on distance education opportunities in higher education, from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Education Index
An annotated guide to education related sites on the web.

FAFSA Federal School Code Search (or Title 5 School Codes)
From the US Department of Education, codes for schools which are used when filling out admissions and financial aid forms, as well as on standardized tests.

Guides to the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System
Information on the MCAS exams.

Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2004
Link to a report (PDF) from the National Center for Education Statistics.

JobWeb
A website devoted to helping college students, seniors, new college graduates, and alumni with career development and the job search. It is provided by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), publisher of the Job Choices magazines.

Massachusetts Board of Higher Education
Links to Massachusetts higher education resources, and MA state colleges and community colleges.

Massachusetts School Directory
Lists the primary and secondary schools for all towns in Massachusetts, along with the grade span, superintendent/principal's name, address, telephone/fax, and e-mail addresses (if available).

Massachusetts Teacher Tests: Test Information Booklet
The complete contents of the test information booklet for the MA Teacher Tests, September 1998. Includes information about the tests as well as sample questions, test objectives, and scoring criteria.

NACE: jobweb
A web site devoted to helping college students, seniors, new college graduates, and alumni with career development and the job search. It is provided by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE).

National Center for Education Statistics: Electronic Catalogue
Searchable database to reports and documents published by NCES, including dropout rates.

The National Education Goals Panel
Provides a brief description and electronic access to a variety of goals publications issued by the National Education Goals Panel.

National Public School and District Locator
From the National Center for Education Statistics, data on each school district in the US.

PBS Teacher Source
Resource for K-12 teachers that features over 3,000 lesson plans and archives.

Peterson's Education Center
Searchable index of Peterson's databases - graduate, undergraduate schools; private schools; financial aid; etc.

Projections of Education Statistics to 2010
Data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Scholar Stuff: Higher Education Directories
Links to undergraduate and graduate schools around the world, with the e-mail addresses of each admissions office.

School District Decision Making Information
Provides resources for assessing and analyzing characteristics of America's more than 14,000 public school districts by demographic size, composition, patterns, and related attributes.

Study Abroad
Information on study abroad programs, searchable by country.

Teacher Pages
A database of full text sources useful for teachers, from Pennsylvania State University.

US Department of Education OERI Online Library
Links to full-text of publications including the Student Guide to Financial Aid (1995-96), information on DOE grants, 'All About ERIC,' educational consumer guides, research reports, and more.

US Department of Education: Topics from A to Z
A subject-based directory to information from the US Department of Education.

Violence and Discipline Problems in US Public Schools, 1996/97
A report (dated March 1998) from the National Center for Education Statistics.

World Lecture Hall
Links to course materials, syllabi, notes, handouts, etc., from college courses and colleges around the country, on all subjects.

Last Modified: May 19, 2008