Databases

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
Public Web site providing at no charge approximately 1.2 million citations and more than 110,000 full-text materials dating from 1966 forward.

ERIC (CSA Illumina)
Contains over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. The sources it indexes include journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, and standards and guidelines. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1966- updated monthly).

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
Contains over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. The sources it indexes include journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, and standards and guidelines. (1966- updated monthly )

ERIC (FirstSearch)
Contains over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. The sources it indexes include journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, and standards and guidelines. (1966- updated monthly )

 

Certification

Certification Requirements for 50 States
Maintained by the University of Kentucky College of Education.

NASDTEC (National Association of State Directors Teacher Education and Certification) Interstate Agreement
Information about certification reciprocity among the 50 U.S. states plus Canadian provinces.

Federal and State Education Sites

Child Care and Early Education Research Connections
Provides almost 9,000 resources related to child care and early education including school-age child care for children to age 13. Includes information about national, state, and local policies, the workforce, settings, grants, jobs, and user families. Icons indicate if a report is from a peer reviewed journal or from the non-peer reviewed reports available on Research Connections. Joint project of the the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Center for Children in Poverty, and the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

College Navigator
U.S. Department of Education site which offers a wide range of information about approximately 7,000 post-secondary institutions in the United States. Contains information about degrees awarded and programs offered, campus safety, retention and graduation rates, fees and financial aid, etc. Includes features such as building a list of schools for side-by-side comparisons, pinpointing school locations with an interactive map, exporting search results into a spreadsheet, and saving a session including search options, results, and favorites.

Ed.gov and Ed.gov (Spanish version)
Comprehensive site from the United States Department of Education for a wide variety of education topics organized for students, parents, teachers, and administrators. Includes lesson plans, career and technical information, study abroad opportunities, performance reports, standards, fact sheets, speeches, financial aid, grants, and initiatives.

FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence)
Contains more than 1,500 teaching and learning resources from dozens of federal agencies. Subjects include arts and music, health and physical education, history and social studies, language arts, math, and science.

National High School Center
Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and housed at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Helps Regional Comprehensive Centers implement the high school goals of No Child Left Behind. Supports the use of research-based approaches. Contains a variety of publications (reports, fact sheets, briefs, guides, and brochures) about current high school issues.

National Institute for Literacy
Find current, comprehensive literacy research, practice, and policy from this federal agency that works in conjunction with the Departments of Education, Labor, and Health and Human Services to promote literacy, especially the reading skills of children, youth, and adults. In the United States Department of Education, the Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL) provides grants to states to set up programs to help American adults obtain basic skills in reading, writing, math, English language competency, and problem-solving.

NIEER (National Institute for Early Education Research )
Provided by the Pew Charitable Trusts and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The institute's mission is to support "early childhood education initiatives by providing objective, nonpartisan information based on research." Among its many publications is the annual State of Preschool (year): State Preschool Yearbook with downloadable statistics from all but the 12 states that do not have state preschool programs.

State Education Agencies
Contact information for state education departments/agencies for all U.S. states and territories.

Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Reports
Higher education reports on a variety of topics relating to Texas community, technical, and state colleges and universities.  

What Works Clearinghouse
Billed as a "central and trusted source of scientific evidence for what works in education." Includes a registry of education evaluation researchers; standards for reviewing and synthesizing education research; assessments "of the rigor of research evidence on the effectiveness" of various kinds of interventions; and practice guides with research-based recommendations. Provided by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.

Grants

Education Research
Competitive grant funds available from the U.S. Department of Education to develop an array of strategies that will improve students' skills in a variety of areas.

Grants and Contracts (U.S. Department of Education)
Information about grants for states, school districts, colleges and postsecondary institutions, rehabilitation, adult education, research and development, statistics, and assessment.

Student Aid on the Web
Provides information about financial aid for college or graduate school. Includes links to the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) and other federal student aid forms for managing student loans (scroll down to section II).

Lesson Plans

Access Excellence
Resources for K-12 science (biology, life science, and health) teachers and science education students provided by Genentech and the National Health Museum.

Heritage Teaching Resources
Smithsonian resources organized for teaching about the history of the following groups in the U.S.: Blacks, Asian Pacific Americans, American Indians, Hispanics, and women.

Ocean Planet (Smithsonian)
Lesson plans and materials for environmental education for teachers and families.

Slates, Slide Rules, and Software: Teaching Math in America
Math problems, Web sites, manipulatives, and resources listed by historical periods provided by the National Museum of American History.

Smithsonian Education
Lesson plans by categories (Art & Design, Science & Technology, History & Culture, and Language Arts). Also includes Web sites and field trip and professional development opportunities.

Teaching With Documents: Lesson Plans (National Archives [NARA])
Reproducible copies of primary documents correlated to lesson plans by era (1754-present) and analysis worksheets. Suggested teaching activities meet the requirements of the National History Standards and the Standards for Civics and Government.

Texas Math Initiative
Contains innovative instructional strategies, best practices, and current research in mathematics education.

Standards/Assessment

Assessment and Standards Development Services
Develops school-to-work standards and assessment tools at the local, state, and national level.

Developing Education Standards
Standards accessible by subject and by state organized by Putnam Valley and Wappingers Central School Districts.

National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): the Nation's Report Card
National Center for Education Statistics site that also includes special reports for targeted populations. See also Digest of Education Statistics for prekindergarten through graduate school statistics.

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS)
Develops professional standards and provides information about voluntary National Board Certification for teachers.

Statistics

Global Education Database
Sponsored by the Office of Education of the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Serves as a repository of international education statistics compiled from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). Query by country or by theme.

National Center for Education Statistics
Includes data tools, tables and figures, assessments, and statistics by level (early childhood, elementary/secondary, and postsecondary), with special links for library and international data. Also includes Digest of Education Statistics, International Comparisons in Education,  a Kids Site, and DataLab for creating simple and complex tables. Datalab includes QuickStats which employs a simple drag and drop process to create tables.