Education
Apprenticeships - College Guides - Educational Associations/Agencies - Employment - Exams & Preparation - Financial Aid - GED - Homeschooling - Law - Local Colleges & Universities - Professional Literature & Educator Resources - Rankings - School Accountability - School Districts and High Schools - School Uniforms and Dress Codes - Single Sex Public Education
Apprenticeships
College Guides
- Counselor-O-Matic
This Web site is "an advanced search engine that combines your academic and extracurricular history (screens 1-3) with your preferences (screens 4-8) to help you find the right college."
- CollegeNET
College selection guide with links to college sites scholarship information.
- IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line
"College Opportunities On-Line helps you find out about a specific college or set of colleges, if you have some in mind. You can name the colleges and obtain information about them.
If you are not sure what colleges might be of interest, IPEDS COOL has the tools to help you search for a college."
- Peterson's
Search for a college programs and schools of interest. With free membership to Peterson's CollegeQuest, users can apply for admission online.
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Educational Associations/Agencies
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Employment
- Certification Requirements for 50 States
This Website from the University of Kentucky as links to information on what is required for teacher certification in each of the fifty states, and links to information about open teaching
positions in most of the states.
- Illinois Education Job Bank
This site, sponsored by the Illinois State Board of Education and the Illinois Association of School Administrators is designed to be used "by teachers, school
service personnel, administrators, and other non-certified personnel seeking employment in Illinois."
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Exams & Preparation
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Financial Aid & Scholarships
- FAFSA
On this Web site you can fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid online.
- College Illinois
Details about the Illinois prepaid tuition program.
- College Zone
Includes information on financial aid sources, Illinois aid programs, a college cost & savings calculator, and a state and federal aid estimator.
- FastWeb
Provides a scholarship search of over 180,000 scholarships, fellowships, loans, and grants, available to students for free.
- FinAid
A guide for students and parents on securing different types of financial aid resources. Offers detailed explanations, financial aid forms, calculators, and an "Ask An Aid Advisor" service that answers financial aid questions.
- Guaranteed Scholarships
This Website lists scholarships that are "require no interview, essay, portfolio, audition, competition or other "secondary" requirement. Just meet the criteria listed, adhere to the application deadlines set by the individual colleges and universities, gain admission, enroll, and receive your scholarship or scholarships."
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GED
- GED Testing Service
This site offers articles on what to expect, what your scores mean, and some sample questions.
- GED - Frequently Asked Questions
This Website from the Will County Regional Office of Education has answers to many of the questions you may have about the GED.
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Constitution Study Guide
"This website [from Southwestern Illinois College]
is written for adult GED students in Illinois, who will be required to take a
Constitution test prepared by the State of Illinois. This website presents
information about the Declaration of Independence, the United States
Constitution, the Illinois Constitution, and the U.S. flag. The GED
Constitution test includes questions about all of these documents."
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Homeschooling
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Law
- First Amendment Schools
This Website has answers to many First Amendment-related questions faced by school administrators and school boards. There are also summaries of First Amendment-related court cases.
Local Colleges & Universities
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Professional Literature & Educator Resources
- ActionBioscience.org
This Website is an online magazine. Articles selected for this Website are those that will, among other aims, "promote an understanding of biogeography and the biodiversity of life", and "engage the public to reflect on the relationship between human activity and the natural course of evolution". Links to resources for educators are included with many of the articles.
- ERIC
"The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. More than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, are now available for free."
- Educator's Reference Desk
On this Website "you can access Ask ERIC's 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses." You will also find a search interface to the ERIC Database.
- Free and Fee-Based Online Science Resources for the K-12 Community
This Website has annotated links to Websites and databases that the author believes science teachers will find useful.
- The Gateway to Educational Materials
"The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!"
- Library in the Sky
"The Library in the Sky is a database of interesting and useful educational Web sites for those involved in education"
- National Science Digital Library
"NSDL is a digital library of exemplary resource collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels."
- PALS
"PALS is an on-line, standards-based, continually updated resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks."
- PBS Teacher Source
This Website has links over 3,000 free lesson plans and activities.
- TestLink
On the Website you will find "an extensive library of 20,000 tests and other measurement devices from the
early 1900s to the present."
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School Accountability
- Interactive Illinois Report Card
This "website presents test results for all public schools and districts in Illinois for the years 1999-2004 in easy-to-understand graphs and tables."
School Districts and High Schools
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School Uniforms and Dress Codes
Single Sex Public Education
Links on this page are selected from lists provided by the Librarians' Index to the Internet,
by Neat New Stuff I Found on the Net This Week, and from suggestions submitted by Joliet Public Library staff and patrons.
Updated 8/27/05 JT
Links checked 1/16/06 JT
Websites examined 7/14/05 JT
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