Education

Back to School!
• SchoolMatters A Standard and Poor's service. This gives you a statistical and comparative look at school districts in your state or nationally.
• Governor's Center for Local Government Services This looks useful from Garry Lenton. Contains zip code to municipality converter, 2005 tax rates for county, municipal and school district.
• WWW Virtual Library: Education I like this site for its completeness and organization. It gives you the option of accessing it alphabetically by site with a complete listing of everything, by educational level (primary to postgraduate) or by country. There are also links to related topics as well as links to newsgroups. Check it out.
• Yahoo: Education This is another overview of education, arranged by topics. From adult education to guidance to literacy, it's here
  

• Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small SchoolsYou will find info on the PARSS equity lawsuit, the PARSS newsletter
• Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE): 2003 Estimates of population and poverty for school districts, as well as income and poverty estimates for states and counties. Diana Fishlock says "Could be very useful in covering individual schools districts as well as comparing areas. "

  GOVERNMENT SOURCES, STATE AND FEDERAL

• The Condition of Education 2005 The National Center for Education Statistics report looks at 60 indicators that present a snapshot of American education. This is an integrated collection of indicators from 2000-2005.
• Federal Communications Commission
• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Library of Education
• Pennsylvania Department of Education
• Pennsylvania State Data Center Offers demographic, economic, social and housing characteristics for Pennsylvania's municipalities, counties and legislative districts
• State System of Higher Education
• Selected Government Resources by Subject
• State Library of Pennsylvania
• U.S. Department of Education
  

  K-12

• Children's Literature Web Guide
• Global Schoolnet Foundation
• Internet Public Library Good site for resources. Choose Education.
• Kids Web Digital library for K-12
• National Center for Community Education They have experts ready to talk about after-school programs, latch-key, community school models, full-service schools, summer recreation and education, pre-kindergarten and cradle schools, and adult education

  HIGHER EDUCATION

• College Admissions Tests
• College and University Home Pages Alphabetically arranged
• Greek Pages List of fraternities and sororities on the Web
• Pennsylvania Colleges,Universities and Vocational Techical Schools
• PHEAA Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency
• Student Services This service offers a free search for scholarships based on your major. They say they have a database of over 180,000 listings for scholarships, fellowships, grants and loans.
• U.S. Bank Student Aid Guide to financing a college education; how to go about it

• Return to Librarians' Links

  Please report any dead links to: dmills1@epix.net

  Last updated on 12/2/08