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Technology Applications for Learning

The Technology Applications for Learning Network is a catalog of promising and proven technology applications for learning.

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2. develop or conduct evaluation or accountability effort
   
3. develop or access curricular content
   
4. develop or conduct assessment of learning
   
5. facilitate collaboration or resource sharing
   
6. plan, design or deliver professional development
   
7. teaching English language arts
   
8. teaching English language learners
   
9. teaching geography
   
10. teaching mathematics
    
11. teaching science
    
12. teaching social studies
    

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• AbilityHub: Assistive Technology Solutions
  AbilityHub: Assistive Technology Solutions. Assistive technology is for people with disabilities who find it difficult to operate a computer.
• Agriculture Network Information Center
  Agriculture Network Information Center AgNIC is a guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and other institutions.
• Computer Graphics in Seven Easy Lessons
  Computer Graphics in Seven Easy LessonsThis is a useful site, especially for those of us who are graphics-impaired but still need to make good-looking Web pages. There are seven lessons that take you step-by-step through editing graphics to achieve various effects and a nicely done Art Box that explains all the Paint Shop Pro select and paint tools.
• Crosspoint Anti Racism
  Crosspoint Anti RacismAn international, searchable collection of briefly annotated links covering such topics as anti-racism/anti-fascism, migrants, anti-Semitism/Shoah, migrants/diversity, indigenous people, Jewish resources/Shoah, human rights/refugees, disability resources, Roma/Sinti/Travellers, gays & lesbians, and women's rights. Can be browsed by country or by topic.
• Developing Goal-Based Scenarios for Web Education
  Developing effective public education sites for the World Wide Web requires an understanding of both learning theories and what appeals to leisure learners. Research indicates that active learning modes are most effective, but leisure learners prefer passive entertainment experiences instead of more demanding interactive experiences.
• Discovering Lewis and Clark
  Provides extensive coverage of the events and natural history of the expedition. With over 1400 pages and monthly updates, the site contains selections from the expedition journals, photographs, maps, graphics, and sound.
• Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920
  Duluth Lynchings Online Resource: Historical Documents Relating to the Tragic Events of June 15, 1920This digital collection provides access "to a variety of primary source materials relating to the 1920 lynching of three young black men--Isaac McGhie, Elias Clayton, and Elmer Jackson--in Duluth, Minnesota." It includes background information on the event, newspaper accounts, legal documents, photographs, oral histories, a timeline, and recommended additional online and print resources. Searchable.
• EDSITEment
  Designed to help educators integrate the Internet as a standard classroom resource, this site covers valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages. The Lesson Plans describe teaching goals, skills, and suggested activities in great detail.
• Games Kids Play
  Games Kids Play. Contributed by users, the rules for games include hide and seek, dodgeball, and hopscotch, as well as jump rope rhymes and variations of jacks and marbles.
• InfoUse's Plane Math
  PlaneMath, is a way for you to learn cool things about math and aeronautics on the Internet! The main content is in Activities for Students. Each activity in Applying Flying includes the Lesson; Meet Me, which presents an individual involved in similar real life situations; a Group activity; and Teachers and Parents, which reviews the NCTM Math Standards, objectives, a list of materials needed, and suggestions for related problems.
• Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII Arkansas
  Life Interrupted: The Japanese American Experience in WWII ArkansasThe University of Arkansas and the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles focus this site on the experiences of Japanese Americans in World War II Arkansas. In an appealing open book format, it provides history, educational links, materials and resources for teachers and the public, reading lists, a timeline, archival photos, recent press articles, downloadable posters, panoramic views, maps pinpointing Rohwer and Jerome camps, and driving directions from Little Rock.
• Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection
  Medieval Woodcuts Clipart Collection"A collection of Medieval clipart culled from various period sources, most notably woodcuts of the 15th & 16th centuries." Browsable by subject (animals and creatures, biblical scenes and figures, decorative borders and initials, human figures, and plants).
• Modeling and VisualizationAcross Learning Contexts
  Modeling and Visualization Across Learning Contextshttp://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~chip/pubs/mvxcontexts.shtml the "impulses" of the learner are the real foundation of the curriculum is more relevant today than it was when he first formulated it nearly a century ago. As the objects of learning become more complex and the applications more demanding the notion that schooling is about the imparting of simple schemas for knowledge appears less and less tenable.
• Musee
  Free registration is required to access much of the site information and directory listings of 37,000 museums around the world including art, science, history, zoos, archaeology, aquariums, and more. The site features current exhibits, education, entertainment, archive reviews, and shopping links.
• National Center for Learning Disabilities
  National Center for Learning DisabilitiesThe NCLD Web site provides facts, news, resources, and links for persons with learning disabilities and their families. Extensive information on issues such as LD evaluation, legislation, outreach and educational programs, public policy, and legal rights for the learning disabled.
• Resources for Distance Learning Library Services
  Guidelines, discussion groups, conferences, mailing lists, selected readings, a selection of representative distance education Web sites, and related links. By Cynthia W.
• SchwabLearning.org: A Parent's Guide to Helping Kids with Learning Differences
  SchwabLearning.org is primarily designed for parents of children with learning differences (LD). Here are practical aids for parents to identify and manage their child's learning differences.
• Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT)
  Confused by all the information out there? "This interactive library tutorial will prepare you to explore and research in the online world." After completing three 30-minute modules you will be able to identify a variety of information sources, perfect your skills for effectively searching databases and the Web, evaluate the credibility of sources, and cite print and online information. TILT Lite requires no plug-ins and Full TILT has total interactivity.
• The Artist's Toolkit: Visual elements and principles
  The Artist's Toolkit: Visual elements and principlesMinneapolis Institute of Arts & Walker Art CenterArtists use visual elements and principles like line, color and shape as tools to build works of art. Learn about these concepts with animated movies, create-a-composition activites, videos of professional artists in action, and an in-depth encyclopedia.
• The Disappearance of Technology: Toward an Ecological Model of Literacy
  Diverse voices have outlined the advantages or disadvantages of technology as they have emerged within classrooms, businesses, communities, and families. Enthusiasts vaunt technological changes, which they contend can effect a more equitable distribution of power.
• The Guide to History of Medicine Resources on the Internet
  This annotated directory of Web sites includes such topics as biographies of physicians and scientists, specific diseases, phrenology, witchcraft, smallpox-infected blankets, 4,000 years of women in science, and Islamic medical arts. It also has a timeline of medical history.
• Twenty-first Century Literacies
  This site discusses four skills needed in society. Disciplines have emerged around information, media, multicultural, and visual literacies.
• "Challenge Us; I Think We're Ready": Establishing a Multicultural Course of Study
  Discusses how students can relate to Mark Mathabane's autobiographical novel "Kaffir Boy"--his questioning why he must attend school, his open defiance of his father, and his struggle to resist peer pressure. Examines where an all-white high-school faculty started in terms of developing a multicultural literature program, where they have been, and where they see the program in the near future.
• "Grandma's Place": An Intergenerational Literacy Center
  Describes a literature conference for the Harlem community on choosing and using self-affirming books for African American children. Describes Grandma's Place, a literacy and parent support center with an array of multicultural literature.
• "I Want My Teachers To Like Me": Multiculturalism and School Dropout Rates among Mexican Americans
  The authors investigated Mexican American high school students' perceptions of multiculturalism, noting whether perceptions affected academic achievement, intention to graduate, and postsecondary educational aspirations. Surveyed, interviewed, and observed students and staff at schools with low and high Hispanic dropout rates.
• "Leyendas" (Legends): Connecting Reading Cross-Culturally
  Describes how using the Hispanic tale "La Llorona" can help teachers connect cross-culturally with their students for enhanced literacy instruction. Describes ways "La Llorona" may be used in courses for preservice education majors and in elementary and middle-grade classes.
• "More than I Bargained For": Confronting Biases in Teacher Preparation
  This paper presents the cases of four preservice teachers enrolled in a critical multicultural education course during Spring 2000, showing how the readings, cross-racial dialogues, and journal reflections that were part of the course helped students, for the first time and irrespective of race and gender, discuss their experiences and question personal views on race, class, gender, and sexuality. Throughout the semester, student teachers read and discussed topics that challenged their thinking about race, class, gender, and sexuality.
• "Other" Encounters: Dances with Whiteness in Multicultural Education
  Reviews four books in order to examine the contradictory and ambivalent spaces occupied and co-occupied with multicultural education, locating multicultural education within the Eurocentric regimes of truth (democracy, pluralism, and equality) and addressing how the books rectify or contest the regimes of truth moving within and against the parameters of the white studies configuration of higher education. (SM).
• "Our Own Voice": The Necessity of Chicano Literature in Mainstream Curriculum
  Discusses the importance of Chicano literature in mainstream curriculum for higher educational attainment and personal fulfillment, providing historical background on the education of Chicanos, describing Chicano literature, and making recommendations for implementing Chicano literature at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. Notes the importance of teaching Chicano students how their culture differs from other Hispanic cultures.
• "Passing Through" a Western-Democratic Teacher Education: The Case of Israeli Arab Teachers
  The author presents data from Jewish and Arab Israeli students and teachers illustrate how Arabs, educated in the Arab cultural context, "pass through" a western-oriented teacher education program, then return to teach in their own culture. Changes in Arab student teachers' beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge applications are traced as they make sense of knowledge presented in the program and construct bodies of knowledge along the path toward teaching in Arab communities.
• "School's Not Really a Place for Reading": A Research Synthesis of the Literate Lives of Students With Severe Disabilties
  Developmental and connectionist research describing a student's development of competent reading and writing skills commonly evokes the image of a normative ladder to literacy. Each rung of the ladder is believed to constitute certain sets of increasingly complex subskills.
• "Water as Rough as an Elephant's Foot..." Learning Geography through Poetry Writing at KS2
  Describes how bilingual fourth and fifth graders at one London elementary school learned geography by writing poetry. This effort involved: engaging with the topic, consolidating knowledge and understanding, and extending knowledge and understanding.
• "Would I Use This Book?" White, Female Education Students Examine Their Beliefs About Teaching
  Examines the interplay of two added components to a reading/language arts methods course: professional readings informed by diverse viewpoints; and participation in a multicultural literature discussion group. Explores how this methods course extended students' understanding and beliefs about teaching the history and lives of the varied groups of people who make up the United States.
• 10 Things Any School Can Do to Build Parent Involvement?. Plus 5 Great Ways to Fail!
  Getting parents involved in their children's education is not just a 'nice idea' .Schools can't do their job without parents' help. This article gives ideas for parent involvement work: in any school .
• 1999 Notable Books for a Global Society: A K-12 list
  Offers brief descriptions of 25 recent outstanding books (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry written for children in grades K-12 and published in 1998) chosen for the 1999 list of Notable Books for a Global Society. Notes that these books celebrate the diversity and common bonds of humanity.
• 1Kickthis
  1KickthisFor persons who are perennially bothered when their Internet service provider disconnects their connection during inactive periods, the 1Kickthis application will be a valuable addition. When 1Kickthis is installed, the application simulates Web browsing by randomly visiting different Web sites, without taking up valuable bandwidth space.
• 21st Century Literacy
  Twenty-First Century LiteracyBertram C. Bruce (Chip)Library and Information Science501 East Daniel St., mc 493University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignChampaign, IL 61820217-244-3576; 217-333-3280fax: 217-244-3302chip@uiuc.eduwww.uiuc.edu/~chip[A version of this paper appears (1998) under the title, "Current Issues and Future Directions" in J.
• 3D Studio MAX R3 demo
  3D Studio MAX R3 demo:http://www.autodesk.com/dyf/coolstuff/maxdemo_1.htmlWant to find out how 3D computer animation works?Learn about Discreet's amazing animation software. Thisfeature explains and demonstrates 3D Studio MAX R3.Also, try the interactive demo!.
• 4t HIT Mail Privacy Lite 1.01
  This small application allows users to send private data (such as various files and messages) embedded in different images, like photographs or other visual images. Along with embedding data in these images, the program uses a strong encrypting algorithm to make Internet communications additionally secure.
• [Collected Papers on International Aspects of Teacher Education and Technology.]
  This document contains the following papers on international issues in technology and teacher education: "Developing and Researching the International Dimension in Teacher Education and Technology:.
• A "Tempest" Project: Shakespeare and Critical Conflicts
  Describes a 4-week unit of study that focuses on Shakespeare's "The Tempest," a text that has been especially controversial in today's climate of increased multicultural awareness. Involves students in a larger conversation about the possibilities for reading and interpreting literature and prepares them to write mature analyses of the play.
• A Brief Intro to Copyright
  A succinct explanation of copyright and fair use. Includes several useful links, including one to the author's definitive article about "copyright myths.".
• A Brush with Wildlife: Create a Composition with Carl Rungius
  National Museum of Wildlife Art2002 AAM MUSE Award winner!Learn from Carl Rungius, one of America's finest wildlife artists, how to use art principles to compose a powerful art composition. Get acquainted with the the principles, then create your own composition and submit it to the Critique Gallery for review! (Middle school and up)http://www.wildlifeart.org/Rungius/index.html.
• A Call for Multicultural Counseling in Middle Schools
  Defines multicultural middle school counseling and outlines three main reasons for offering multicultural counseling designed specifically for young adolescents. Outlines problems faced by non-native students and presents guidelines for middle school counselors who work in multicultural settings.
• A Career Odyssey. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Career and Technical Education/International Vocational Education and Training Association (74th, San Diego, California, December 7-10, 2000). Business Education Division
  These six papers present sound research in business education. "Status of Full- and Part-Time Business Faculty at Two-Year College and Perceived Importance of Selected Professional Services" (Marcia A.
• A Comparison of Family Environment Characteristics among White (Non-Hispanic), Hispanic, and African Caribbean Groups
  To investigate differences in the family environments of different cultural groups, the Family Environment Scale and a clinical interview were administered to 153 college students from White (non-Hispanic), Hispanic, and African Caribbean backgrounds. A multivariate analysis of covariance and post hoc comparisons revealed significant differences between the groups on the Expressiveness, Independence, and Moral-Religious Emphasis subscales.
• A Comprehensive Glossary of Weather Terms for Storm Spotters
  A Comprehensive Glossary of Weather Terms for Storm SpottersWritten in layman's terms, this "spotter glossary" serves as a reference to help standardize weather-related terms used by storm spotters and forecasters to communicate effectively during storm warnings. NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Technical Memorandum NWS SR-145, from the National Weather Service, Norman, OK.
• A Computerized Screening Instrument of Language Learnability
  This article presents further analyses of a pilot study that examined the effectiveness of a computerized language screening instrument for 60 multicultural children (ages 7-8). Results suggest that because of its computerization and language learnability features, this innovative instrument may be an effective alternative to current screening procedures.
• A Critical Analysis of the Multicultural Counseling Competencies: Implications for the Practice of Mental Health Counseling
  The authors discuss the implications of adopting the Multicultural Counseling Competencies created by the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development for members of the American Mental Health Counseling Association and other counseling practitioners. They suggest that more empirical data need to be collected before the Competencies are required of practicing counselors or implemented in counselor education programs.
• A Cultural Mosaic
  The diversity program initiated in a Philadelphia high school is based on the following principles: teachers should educate themselves about diversity, spread and reinforce the word, think outside the box, lead by example, and use multiple strategies to prepare students to succeed in a multicultural world. (JOW).
• A Dictionary of Slang
  'A Dictionary of Slang' is an amusing reference guide of the rich and colorful language known as slang. The "monster online dictionary" was created by Ted Duckworth and is written from a British perspective.
• A Dose of Empathy
  Argues that teachers cannot teach empathy, generosity, and kindness in the same way they teach solving a math problem, but that teachers can help raise awareness of these values and affirm them whenever possible. Describes five picture books that examine the importance of reaching out to others, and that may help move students from intellectual understanding to compassionate action.
• A Good Start: A Progressive, Transactional Approach to Diversity in Pre-service Teacher Education
  A study examined what three English-as-second-language preservice teachers learned in a progressive, transactional methods course about teaching culturally and linguistically diverse children. Although the course did not instill the deep cross-cultural understanding necessary for bicultural competence, it did cultivate the student teachers' desire to value and respect other cultures.
• A Guide to Developing a Severe Weather Emergency Plan for Schools
  This guide has been designed for schools, but it can be used by people who work in businesses, shopping malls, depots, hotels and hospitals.
• A Guide to Faculty Development: Practical Advice, Examples, and Resources
  Chapters in this guide provide practical guidance and useful information and resources relating to important aspects of faculty development, from setting up a faculty development program to assessing teaching practices.
• A Guide To NASA Educational Programs
  Teacher/Faculty Preparation And Enhancement ProgramsoK-12oHigher EducationStudent Support ProgramsoK-12oHigher Education*Educational Technology Programs*Support of Systemic Improvement Program*Curriculum Support and Dissemination*Research and Developmenthttp://ehb2.gsfc.nasa.gov/edcats/2000/nep/programs/index.html.
• A Historical Perspective on Title VII Bilingual Education Projects in Hawai'i: Compendium of Promising Practices
  This paper reviews the history of Title VII bilingual education in Hawaii for the purpose of sharing promising practices that have emerged. The implementation of these models in Hawaii has resulted in such outcomes as the following: (1) improvement in students' English language skills; (2) improvement in students' academic achievement; (3) enhanced self-concept; (4) enhanced pride in cultural heritage; (5) increased competencies of bilingual and mainstream teachers and school, district, and state staff; and (6) increased involvement of limited-English-proficient (LEP) parents and community representatives in the schools.
• A Jazz Improvisation Primer
  A Jazz Improvisation Primer "Here you can find information on almost any topic relating to jazz improvisation, from jazz history to music theory to practical advice on playing in a group." Includes annotated bibliography and discography. Online version of text written by Marc Sabatella.
• A Learner Centered Education
  This paper proposes a learner-centered educational system, focusing on aspects that are intrinsically associated with the modern educational system, such as the curriculum, school community, parents, learners, and educational support personnel.
• A Lexicon of Learning:
  Ever wondered what educators mean when they refer to "authentic assessment" or "Bloom's Taxonomy"? Education, like all professions, has a specialized vocabulary that parents and others may have a difficult time understanding. ASCD's online resource, A Lexicon of Learning, provides clear definitions of educational terms in everyday language.
• A Licensed Professional Counselor's Professional and Personal Insights and Changes Resulting from a University Course on Cultural Diversity
  A personal account is given about counseling people of color in light of the fact that training and information about multicultural counseling was not part of counselor education programs 20 years ago. Recent attendance at a graduate level course on cultural diversity prompted this counselor to consider many issues.
• A Lifetime of Color
  This is an extraordinary art education site that includes hands-on activities and techniques; galleries of student and professional work; information about art elements, principles, concepts, media, styles, and artists; an interactive art timeline and glossary; online games; teacher resources; and lesson plans for grades K-8.This is a good place to learn some basic techniques. Site is sponsored by Sanford, a manufacturer of art supplies.Subjects: Art -- Study and teaching, Lesson planning, Teaching Aids and devices.
• A Lingering Miseducation: Confronting the Legacy of "Little Tree."
  The popular book, "The Education of Little Tree," written by a Ku Klux Klansman, perpetuates popular stereotypes about American Indians and advances the author's ideology about segregation and staunch individualism. This type of fraud is especially damaging to children, both White and Indian, who internalize such stereotypes as more authentic than the realities of living American Indians.
• A Longitudinal Measure of the Perceptual Impact of a Cultural Diversity Teaching Practicum on the Interpersonal Competency of Student Teachers
  Student teachers in agricultural education (n=18) and family and consumer sciences (n=6) completed a multicultural attitudes survey before, immediately after, and 1 year after a practicum in a diverse setting. Their greatest gain was in teacher-student relationships.
• A longitudinal study of learning to use children’s thinking in mathematics instruction
  Multi-year study that examined the changes in the beliefs and instruction of 21 primary grade teachers with their participation in a Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) program.
• A Love of Monsters: Gargoyles and Architectural Details in New York City
  This site is a wondrous tour of the gargoyles and other creatures lurking on the buildings of New York City. Creator Amelia Wilson shares with us her eye for detail on a "virtual stroll" through areas of the city.
• A Multicultural Approach to Physical Education: Proven Strategies for Middle and High School
  This book offers a multicultural approach to physical education for students in grades 7-12. The approach is intended to increase the individual's feelings of self-worth and generate a shared sense of accomplishment among diverse students.
• A Multicultural Autobiographies Interdisciplinary Course
  Describes an interdisciplinary course on multicultural autobiographies that integrated psychology and literature, requiring students to examine primary texts using analytical tools from both disciplines. Addresses the outcomes and writing assignments, psychological and literary perspectives on autobiographical texts, the students' responses, and teaching observations.
• A Nation of Minorities?
  This article describes the new demographic transition the United States is currently undergoing; that it is becoming a multicultural society which may someday have no ethnic majority. It stresses the point that the main question is not what the demographics of future America will be, but how the different ethnic groups will relate to one another.
• A new high school design focused on student performance.
  Performance-driven schools create a results-oriented culture, strongly support staff development, build community services and supports for students, help parents support their children's academic progress and develop an inclusive school leadership style. NASSP Bulletin, Vol.
• A Paper on Action Research
  What is Action Research? Action research is known by many other names, including participatory research, collaborative inquiry, emancipatory research, action learning, and contextural action research, but all are variations on a theme. Put simply, action research is "learning by doing" - a group of people identifies a problem, does something to resolve it, sees how successful their efforts were, and, if not satisfied, tries again.
• A Path to Social Change: Examining Students' Responsibility, Opportunity, and Emotion toward Social Justice
  Investigated college students' beliefs about privileged and oppressed adults' responsibility for the onset/offset of social inequities, emotions linked with their responsibility, and behaviors that should result from responsibility for social equity. Overall, preconceived notions of privilege and oppression can offer an explanation for students' resistance to multicultural discourse.
• A Preliminary Analysis of Counseling Students' Attitudes toward Counseling Women and Women of Color: Implication for Cultural Competency Training
  Counseling students (N=56) responded to peer-generated presentations on counseling women and counseling women of color. Qualitative methodology was used to identify students' racial, ethnic, and gender attitudes in counseling contexts.
• A professional development school partnership: Conflict and collaboration
  The Professional Develpment School (PDS) is one of the most prominent, compelling, and recent models of teacher education reform. For decades efforts have been made to reform the U.S.
• A Project on Youth Gangs
  This WebQuest is for 11th and 12th grade students. It is designed to help students recognize the danger gangs pose to themselves and their school communities.
• A Qualitative Study of College Social Adjustment of Black Students from Lower Socioeconomic Communities
  This article uses elements of the Ecological Model as a framework for examining the methods by which students develop social relationships and determining whether these relationships support college retention. An oral composite was constructed from the comments of Black commuter students from lower socioeconomic communities.
• A Real Challenge: Teaching Latino Culture to White Students
  Cultural studies courses offered to undergraduate students of foreign languages tend to rely on canonical works that avoid sociopolitical perspectives and present the culture of the "Other" within the dominant world view. There is an urgent need to move from these traditional curricula to more engaging programs that capture the challenging postmodern articulations between language, culture, and social narratives.
• A Response to Rose Hernandez Sheets
  This paper responds to an essay that examined the role of whites in multicultural education and reviewed three books on the subject, agreeing with the essay's assertion that having a positive white racial identity does not an antiracist educator make; questioning the essay's interpretation of the term marginalization regarding diverse students; and agreeing that whites must take the responsibility for educating themselves about people of color. (SM).
• A Review of Community College Curriculum Trends. ERIC Digest
  Approximately 50 percent of all students who enter postsecondary education enroll in community colleges. Consequently, reviewing the characteristics of the community college curriculum is paramount to understanding the role these institutions play in shaping students' trajectories.
• A Review of the Pipeline: The Value of Diversity in Staffing Teaching and Learning Centers in the New Millennium
  Surveys the national context of recruiting and hiring faculty developers, examines faculty development center staffing, and discusses the advantages and challenges of hiring a diverse staff. Offers suggestions for the future of educational development associations as multicultural organizations and how educational development professionals can lead the effort toward creating a diverse pipeline of professionals.
• A Self-Study in Teacher Education: Collective Reflection as Negotiated Meaning
  This self-study highlights two teacher educators' evolving collaborative relationship, viewed within the larger research study of their praxis in teaching. It is part of a multi-layered research methodology, developed to inquire into graduate preservice teachers' understandings of multicultural education.
• A Sound Education
  Although band, chorus, and orchestra are still mainstays of most school music programs, many schools are incorporating technology, multicultural music, composition, and improvisation into the course offerings. Music teachers must balance tradition and innovation.
• A Study of the Gender Role Orientations of Beginning Counselors
  Counseling literature and the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs' (1994) accreditation standards advocate gender-sensitive counseling practices. However, the effects of socialization processes on counselor education students concerning gender role orientation may interfere with that mandate.
• A Successful Program for Struggling Readers
  Notes that a "staggering number" of struggling readers in the United States are African American children and other students of color. Outlines characteristics of successful schools for struggling readers, and details effective teaching techniques.
• A Survival Kit for the Elementary/Middle School Art Teacher
  This book is for art teachers looking for a new approach to the traditional lesson. The projects can be used at most grade levels.
• A Systematic Examination of School Improvement Activities That Include Special Education.
  Includes a reliable and valid method to (a) systematically describe and assess the school improvement process and (b) examine its relationship to special education by including in the investigation programs for students with emotional disturbance.
• A Train of Thought
  Explains that multicultural literature should be taught because it reflects genuine family, socioeconomic, philosophical, and geographical circumstances. Proposes that students should read to not only include but to affirm multicultural voices.
• A Two-Way Bilingual Program: Promise, Practice, and Precautions
  In spite of political pressure, bilingualism is emerging as a strategy for improving the academic achievement of all students. Two-way bilingual or dual-language programs integrate language-minority and language-majority students for instruction in two languages.
• A Web Quest Series on Creating Non-Violent Schools
  This siteoffers comprehensive web-based activities where students explore questions related to school safety and consider a variety of ways to help create non-violent schools. Web-based activities include a Hotlist, Subject Sampler, Knowledge Hunt, Concept Builder, Insight Reflector and WebQuest.
• A World of Difference: Readings on Teaching Young Children in a Diverse Society
  As teachers encounter a wider variety of children and families than ever before, dealing with all the differences can be demanding. This book provides a collection of 45 readings reflecting the strong, continuing current of thoughtful work on teaching young children in a diverse society to help teachers and prospective teachers respond to the challenges and opportunities posed by classroom diversity.
• ABCTEACH.COM
  WEBSITE ADDRESShttp://abcteach.com/CONTACT DETAILSsandkems@abcteach.comDESCRIPTIONabcteach website is targeted at teachers, student teachers, learners and parents. The purpose of website is to provide educationally sound suggestions that help with learning and teaching.
• AbiWord 1.0.3
  AbiWord 1.0.3A bit different than other word processors, AbiWord is a free word processorthat is able to run on virtually any platform and supports a wide array oflanguages. Also of note is the fact that AbiWord is being developed as anOpen Source project, which means that the lines of code comprising theapplication are freely available and redistributable.
• About a Recent Review of Research on Family/School Linkages?
  This paper is developed by the National Institute of Urban School Improvement (NIUSI). It is about the Family School Linkages Project: Building Better Relationships Between School Personnel and the Families of their Students.
• About Election Connection
  About Election ConnectionTeaching Matters, Inc. has launched Election Connection, a program for middle-school students that takes advantage of the power and appeal of the Internet to generate interest in the democratic process.
• About Four Ways to Increase Parental Efficacy?
  When parents feel like they can make a positive difference in their children's lives, they are said to have a high level of "efficacy". Parental efficacy is a belief in one's skills, abilities and resources to parent effectively, including the ability to protect children from negative influences and improve the family's school and community.
• About Homework and Families?
  Family School Linkages Project: Building Better Relationships Between School Personnel & the Families of their Students By Dianne Ferguson & Anne Stilwell.Homework seems to have been part of school forever. Teachers assign it.
• About The Advanced Applications Database (AAD)
  The NLANR Advanced Applications Database provides a wealth of information on applications and resources, with pointers to many research groups in many fields across the country and around the world. At present this collection includes over 4,000 applications, projects, and resources from more than 30 countries with nearly 1,000 contact personnel.
• About the Difference Between "Parent Involvement" and "Family/Community Linkages"?
  Family School Linkages Project: Building Better Relationships Between School Personnel & the Families of their Students.School personnel have long talked about the need for "parent involvement". In recent years the language has shifted slightly to "family involvement" in order to honor that many other family members-siblings, aunts and uncles, even close friends and neighbors- support and nurture children and youth and may play significant roles in their education.
• About the role of "cultural capital" for families?
  School personnel in urban schools often talk about the fact that some parents seem to be ?involved? and others not. Some parents come to meetings and events, respond to school phone calls and invitations, and help their sons and daughters with homework.
• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum
  The official Web site of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Use this Web site to learn more about the most admired president in American history and the city he called home; as well as to follow the progress of the construction of the Presidential Library and Museum (opening 2004).
• Absent from the Research, Present in Our Classrooms: Preparing Culturally Responsive Chinese American Teachers
  Documents the paucity of research on Chinese American teachers, noting how this contributes to the invisibility of Asian Americans as frontline participants in education and exploring bilingual Chinese American teachers' perceptions of the multicultural course requirement in teacher preparation. Data from teacher interviews, surveys, focus groups, documents, and observations indicated that most respondents believed courses were designed for the dominating group and excluded them from the teaching-learning process.
• Academic Achievement, Race, and Reform: Six Essays on Understanding Assessment Policy, Standardized Achievement Tests, and Anti-Racist Alternatives
  This set of six essays was written as a resource for those working in their schools and communities to promote social justice, combat racism, and encourage quality education for all youth.
• Access and Success in Web Courses at an Urban Multicultural Community College: The Student's Perspective
  This study explores the question of access in Arizona's postsecondary electronic education environment by looking at an urban community college with a highly diverse student population. Phoenix College (PC) is a community college in the Maricopa Community College District in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Accessing the general curriculum: Including students with disabilities in standards-based reform
  Presents a framework and strategies for K-12 teachers in inclusive environments that makes it easier to design instruction that enables all students to access and make progress in the general curriculum.
• Across-Program Collaboration to Support Students With and Without Disabilities in a General Education Classroom
  We conducted a program evaluation of a multi-component intervention using general education/special education collaborative teaming to increase the academic achievement and social participation of students with and without disabilities.
• actDEN (Digital Education Network): Software Tutorials and Online Courses
  High-quality software tutorials and online courses for educators, parents and students of all ages.
• Action Science Network
  What is Action Science?http://www.actionscience.com/actinq.htmAction science is a strategy for designing situations that foster effective stewardship in any type of organization. As a framework for learning the approach is designed to help individuals, groups, and organizations to develop a readiness to change to meet the needs of an often changing environment.Action Science is a strategy for increasing the skills and confidence of individuals in groups to create any kind of organization (thus fostering long-term individual/group effectiveness).
• Active Learning with Technology
  The first 6 modules of the Active Learning with Technology professional development portfolio set the stage for understanding how constructivist learning environments are created and implemented. The modules demonstrate learner-centered instructional and classroom management settings such as inquiry-based learning, project-based learning, small group learning, and using commonly available software to support a learner-centered environment.
• Activeclassroom
  ActiveClassroom is a web-based classroom management and curriculum delivery system that closes the gap between school and home. It provides teachers with the ability to incorporate web-based resources affiliated with adopted textbooks, state testing guidelines or other educational sites directly to their individual classrooms.
• Adaptive Technology for the Internet
  Subtitled Making Electronic Resources Accessible, this is the complete text in HTML of librarian Barbara Mates' 1999 book, put on the Web by ALA Editions, the American Library Association's publishing arm. Here, you can find advice from a librarian who's been there and done that on such technologies as screen readers, Braille screens, voice recognition systems, hearing assistance devices, and HTML coding for accessibility.
• Adolescent Violent Behavior: An Analysis across and within Racial/Ethnic Groups
  Analysis of data from a national longitudinal study of adolescent health found that adolescent involvement in four types of violent behaviors was related to race/ethnicity, gender, and family structure. Family cohesion was a protective factor against all types of violence.
• Adult Basic Skills: Developing a Local Action Plan.
  This document presents advice from the United Kingdom's Basic Skills Agency regarding developing local action plans.
• Adult Role Models: Needed Voices for Adolescents, Multiculturalism, Diversity, and Race Relations
  Examines parents', teachers', and administrators' beliefs about positive race relations and multiculturalism. Interview data indicate that parents and school role models are working to model acceptance of all cultures, and they understand that contacts and interactions with people of all races are necessary to make children better persons, lessening prejudice and biases not suitable in a diversified society.
• Advancing the Field or Taking Centre Stage: The White Movement in Multicultural Education
  Examines the white movement within multicultural education, reviewing three representative books: "We Can't Teach What We Don't Know: White Teachers, Multiracial Schools"; "Race and Culture in the Classroom: Teaching and Learning Through Multicultural Education"; and "Making Meaning of Whiteness: Exploring the Racial Identity of White Teachers." Suggests that this current movement to further empower whites may not be the solution. (SM).
• Affective Thought, Personalized Democracy, and the Council's Multicultural Mission
  Visualizes what embodied learning and shared authority looks like in an alternative high school for mostly Latino students. Argues for an approach to teaching that looks to teacher-student relationships.
• Africa Photos from the California Academy of Sciences
  Nearly 700 images of "African animals, plants, landscapes, and people/culture." Searchable by name, type, country, location, and photographer. A part of CalPhotos, from the Digital Library Project, University of California, Berkeley.
• African American Females' Voices in the Classroom: Young Sisters Making Connections through Literature
  Examines the reading experiences of six African-American middle school girls. Finds that their book selection processes were different than those proposed by the professional multicultural education literature; they found affirmations, support, solutions, and decision-making skills in their reading; and that what mattered were the connections the girls were making to those characters.
• African American World
  African American World - PBS brings together lots of resources in an effort to cover the African American experience from slavery to today. There are online interactive exhibits, biographical profiles, and teachers' guides.
• African Art- Aesthetics and Meaning
  African Art- Aesthetics and Meaning http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/exhib/93.ray.aa/Introduction.htmlAfrican artifacts have generally been exhibited with reference only to cultural context and use. In view of recent studies of African aesthetic principles and related moral and religious values, there is good reason to emphasize the formal aesthetic aspects of the objects and the moral and religious ideas they express.
• African Music and Dance Ensemble
  The Ensemble broadens access to knowledge about Africa's rich cultural heritage across the United States, Canada and Europe. The Ensemble has taught the skill, artistry and philosophy that inform the African music and dance traditions.
• African Photography
  African Photography Alphabetical index and collection of images compiled by Afrique en Creations in Paris including Mama Cassett, and Pierrot Men. [In French].
• African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920
  African-American Sheet Music, 1850-1920: Selected from the Collections of Brown UniversityOver 1,300 pieces of music associated with antebellum black face minstrelsy, the abolitionist movement, the Civil War, and on into the twentieth century. Composers include James Bland, Ernest Hogan, Bob Cole, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook.
• After the Tsunami, Some Dilemmas: Japanese Language Studies in Multicultural Australia. Language Australia Research Policy and Practice Papers
  Authors described responses to linguistic pluralism in Australian policy in relation to Australia's Asian language context, and the teaching and learning of Japanese within these two frameworks.
• Agile Learning, New Media, and Technological Infusement at a New University: Serving Underrepresented Students. JSRI Occasional Paper
  The California State University system faces an increase of 100,000 students by 2010, the majority of whom will be Latino. Fundamental restructuring is necessary to accommodate this change, and the new California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) may provide a model.
• Aiming High 2: Straight A's
  This book explores the key themes of raising achievement and the various strategies in both teaching and learning which will lead to students achieving their potential. Experienced A-level teachers reflect on issues including: the link between cultural awareness and developing linguistic skills; teaching study skills and learning strategies as an integral part of all aspects of teaching and learning a modern foreign language.
• Alexandria Digital Library
  Alexandria Digital Library."Project Alexandria will develop a digital library providing easy access to large and diverse collections of maps, images and pictorial materials as well as a full range of new electronic library services. The project is centered at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with its major collections of maps and images and its strong research focus in the area of spatially-indexed information.
• All About Jazz
  A comprehensive site, All About Jazz contains interviews, a photo gallery, articles, a wonderful interactive timeline, and more.
• All in One Metasearch
  - Access to 800 search engines.
• All Info-About Poetry
  While there are many sites offering a diverse selection of poems and versefrom the best-known names from previous historical eras, few Web sites offermore contemporary poems. Paula Bardell, a poet and fiction writer fromBritain, has established this Web site as a means to disseminate the works(and discussions) of a varied group of contemporary poets from around theworld.
• All of Us Together Have a Story to Tell
  Outlines questions for teachers to consider when selecting books which may be challenged. Looks at two different stories of challenges to multicultural education, regarding whether an "outsider" has the right to relate the stories of another culture.
• Alta Vista Translation Service
  Submit text or a URL for a webpage and this tool will translate it from English to Spanish or Spanish to English with the click of the mouse! Grammar and accent marks are not perfect but a surprisingly understandable translation appears. Also translates from English to French, Portuguese, German, or Italian.
• Altar-ing Family Communication: The Shrine/Altar Project in the Family Communication Course
  This paper describes an assignment originally designed for a course in family communication now being taught at the upper undergraduate level at a state university in the southwestern United States.
• Alternative Assessment of Language and Literacy in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
  This article explores some problems and recent solutions to the use of norm-referenced testing of children who are culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD). It describes two promising procedures to provide unbiased assessment of CLD children's language and literacy: the use of processing-dependent measures and of dynamic assessment measures.
• Alternative Perspectives on Orality, Literacy and Education: A View from South Africa
  Examines theoretical concerns about discourses associated typically with what has come to be referred to as the oral tradition and discourses associated typically with academic contexts in order to see how these may relate to students' experiences of higher learning. Looks at the writing of students who are predominantly Xhosa speakers and analyzes the kinds of discourses they seem to display.
• Alternative Schools and Roma Education: A Review of Alternative Secondary School Models for the Education of Roma Children in Hungary. World Bank Regional Office Hungary NGO Studies
  In recent years, a number of experiments have been undertaken in Hungary with alternative approaches to secondary school education for Roma children. This report examines six different institutions that have attempted to help Roma children make the transition from basic to secondary school, and to improve their performance and future opportunities in education and in the labor market.
• Amazing Picture Machine
  Search for pictures, maps, and other graphic resources on the Internet.Excellent collection and easily searchable, with an annotated list of good photograph and image sites and a list of the types of pictures in the database.Good for educational uses, from the North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium.
• Amazing Space
  has an excellent series of inquiry-based activities on their web site entitled Amazing Space; http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/amazing-space.html.
• Amazon Interactive
  Amazon InteractiveLearn about the people and geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Try running a community-based ecotourism project.
• America Reads Challenge: Tutors to Teachers
  Investigated how the America Reads Challenge might help recruit tutors to the teaching profession. Focus groups and surveys of college tutors in urban settings indicated that they enjoyed the experience and believed it increased and confirmed their desire to teach.
• American Collection: An Educator's Site
  American Collection: An Educator's SiteHighlighting the works of six-great authors--Henry James, Langston Hughes, Esmeralda Santiago, James Agee, Willa Cather, and Eudora Welty--the site provides primary and secondary source information. Resources include lesson plans related to each of the authors; links to peer-reviewed websites; and on-line teacher guides.
• American Educational History Journal, 2001
  This 2001 annual publication contains 31 articles on topics germane to the history of education. Each year, this journal publishes papers presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest History of Education Society.
• American Field Guide: Inspiration to Explore
  American Field Guide: Inspiration to Explorehttp://www.pbs.org/americanfieldguide/index.htmlPublic Broadcasting Service (PBS)This website features over 1,400 video clips from public televisionbroadcasts highlighting the American wilderness and related topics(Animals, Earth and Space, Ecosystems, Human History, Livelihoods, Plants,Public Policy, and Recreation) for middle and high school life scienceclasses. The clips may be searched by keyword or accessed on the homepageunder the eight topics.
• American Folklife Center
  The American Folklife Center, which houses correspondence, artifacts, sound recordings, and photographs documenting folk arts, has showcased a number of its collections online.
• American Memory Learning Page
  American Memory Learning Page features dozens of teacher-designed lessons using the many online collections of images, songs, interviews, sheet music, maps, and documents of the Library of Congress. An online workshop by Paddy Bowman of CARTS introduces folklore with activities teachers can replicate with students.
• An assessment framework for professional development schools: Going beyond the leap of faith
  The author discusses the challenges in assessing Professional Development School (PDS) impacts, noting examples of assessments from the literature. The paper outlines a conceptual framework for assessment and explains how it may help organize more systematic thinking about PDS evaluation.
• An Ethnographic Study of Preservice Teacher Resistance to Multiculturalism: Implications for Teaching
  The author examines student teachers' resistance to multicultural education, contrasting the expectations of teacher educators, as expressed in the literature, with the perspectives of preservice teachers from a required multiculturalism course. The study involved participant observation, with the researcher participating in the course as a student, completing all assignments and readings, and participating in class discussions and group projects.
• An Examination of Gender Differences among Teachers in Jamaican Schools
  Examines the history of education in Jamaica, then discusses why there is an absence of male teachers in younger grades. Interviews with teachers and principals from six primary and elementary schools indicate that, similar to educational staff in North America, respondents have stereotyped attitudes regarding the teaching of young children being the realm of women.
• An Intervention Package to Support High School Students With Mental Retardation in General Education Classrooms
  The effects of using a multicomponent intervention package to support the classroom performance of 4 high school students with mental retardation enrolled in general education classes were investigated.
• An Introductory Reader to the Writings of Jim Cummins. Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
  This book contains 19 readings covering three decades of the work of academic Jim Cummins.
• Analyze Technology Needs
  Educators will need to take action on three fronts, which include defining what it means to be educated in a digital, knowledge-based society, transforming schools into high-performance learning organizations responsive to this new definition, and establishing new measures for assessing student progress.
• Anatomy of a URL
  A great diagram for understanding a URLProtocolA protocol is a means of communication between computers. The most common protocol on the web is the hypertext transfer protocol (http).
• Ancient World Web
  This site presents annotated lists, gathered into broad categories, of Web sites that document medieval - and older - history, theory, and scholarship. With a few exceptions, coverage stops at 1000 A.D.
• Anecdotage
  Anecdotagehttp://anecdotage.com/ Anecdotage is home to several thousand anecdotes. Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines an anecdote as "a usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident." Anecdotage is chock-full of just such.
• Angela: A Pedagogical Story and Conversation
  The authors present a fictional account of one teacher's experience with an Aboriginal student, focusing on the details in each section of the story to highlight the many preconceived notions teachers may have when dealing with Aboriginal students. A sidebar offers guidelines for establishing a safe environment for discussing and learning about culturally sensitive issues.
• Animated Gifs, Backgrounds, Graphics, Icons, Sounds, Movies
  Great collection backgrounds, animated GIFs, icons, and other small graphics for student Web page designers. Additionally there are more than 150 sound files in WAV and MIDI formats and a very few movies in QuickTime and AVI formats.
• Anthropological Resources for Teaching Social Studies
  Links to resources for teaching about world cultures, including African American, Latin American, and Native American.
• Application of the Theory of Multiple Intelligences to Second Language Learners in Classroom Situations
  This paper argues for the "nurture" side of the "nature versus nurture" debate of the nature of intelligence. It argues for the theory of multiple intelligences in relation to sociocultural and cognitive perspectives of second language learning.
• Applications of "Multiculturalism" Demonstrated by Elementary Preservice Science Teachers
  This study examined 38 thematic units prepared by preservice elementary teachers at the end of their science methods class and their second semester in an urban, field-based program, investigating how they addressed principles of diversity and multiculturalism. The units had either a science theme or science integrated with themes from other disciplines.
• Applying Big6 Skills, Information Literacy Standards and ISTE Nets to Internet Research
  Applying Big6 Skills, Information Literacy Standardsand ISTE NETS to Internet Research. Correlate Mike Eisenberg's and Bob Berkowitz' Big6 Skills with the national Information Literacy Standards developed by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) and Association for Educational and Communications Technology (AECT) and the National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS) to organize an introduction to research on the Internet.
• ArabNet
  Designed to serve as a clearinghouse of information about the Arab world,ArabNet is a valuable source of current news coverage, along with providingcountry profiles of almost every nation in the Middle East. The homepagefeatures a Latest News section that provides hyperlinks to English-languagearticles offering coverage from many different media sources on topicalstories within the Middle East.
• Archaeology Public Education
  The Society for American Archaeology Public Education Committee has developed a variety of resources to help educators incorporate archaeology into classroom teaching. Many are now available free on the SAA web site.
• Archives of African-American Music&Culture
  Archives of African-American Music&CultureWeb site devoted to the collection, preservation, and dissemination of materials for the purpose of research and study of African-American music and culture.http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc.
• Are Our Preservice Teachers Ready To Teach in This Culturally Diverse Society? Examining Preservice Teachers' Self-Assessment on Their Multicultural Teaching Performance
  This study examined preservice teachers' multicultural teaching performance and noted whether preservice teachers' demographic and educational backgrounds would predict their performance. Preservice teachers completed the Survey of Preservice Teachers' Multicultural Teaching Competency, which included questions about knowledge of subject matter, knowledge of human development and learning, adapting instruction for individual needs, multiple instructional strategies, classroom motivation and management skills, communication skills, instructional planning skills, assessment of student learning, professional commitment, and responsibility.
• Art Studio Chalkboard
  This site is a resource for artists and art students focusing on the fundamentals of perspective, shading, and color. Students are also given the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers that relate to techniques and principles of design.
• Art Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art
  Art Tales: Telling Stories with Wildlife Art. National Museum of Wildlife Art Awarded "Best of the Web: Educational Site" at Museums & the Web 2001! Explore art at this museum in ways you never could before! Tell a story, illustrate it with wildlife, put it to music, and publish it on the Web! (Third grade to adult).
• Artful Learning: The Leonard Bernstein Center for Learning
  Artful Learning was inspired by Leonard Bernstein's vision that music and the arts could be used to improve a child's academic achievement and instill a love of learning. Artful Learning uses powerful arts-infused curriculum units developed by teachers to engage and excite children.
• Artsedge
  ArtsEdge is an online resource center funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the United States Department of Education and administered by the Kennedy Center Education Department. Its mission is to help artists, teachers, and students gain access to and share information, resources, and ideas that support the arts as a core subject in the K-12 curriculum.
• ArtsEdNet
  ArtsEdNetA lesson bank with lessons in the fine arts run by the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
• ArtServe: Art and Architecture mainly from the Mediterranean Basin
  Searchable access to around 150,000 images - all concerned in some way with the history of art and architecture. Results come up in pages with thumbnail images, usually expandable to maximum width or height of 400 pixels.
• Artslynx: International Arts Resources
  Artslynx: International Arts Resources. The amazingly wide scope of this comprehensive arts site includes links to information on organizations and collections; arts advocacy, education, funding, and administration; healing and disabilities; history; and more.
• ARTT (Art Responding through Technology)
  ARTT provides online visual arts mentoring for k-12 students, professional development and technology training for teachers and artist/mentors. It is an initiative of the VT MIDI/ARTT Project, Inc.
• Asian Heritage Pupils, PE and Language
  Investigated whether physical education (PE) classes could contribute to verbal skill development among limited English speaking Asian students. Surveys and interviews conducted at inner city English schools indicated that many PE teachers already planned lessons with such learning in mind, and relevant policies were well-developed.
• Asian Students and Humanities Subjects: Report to the Equity and Social Justice Branch, Victoria University
  Australia is a multicultural society and, in recent years, Asian immigration has increased tremendously. In terms of the educational participation of Asian-Australian students, students from non-English-speaking backgrounds are not highly represented in humanities, arts, and education courses.
• Ask a Librarian
  Email your research questions or chat online with a Library of Congress reference librarian.
• Ask Dr. Math
  Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for math students and their teachers.
• AskA+ Locator
  AskA+ LocatorThis directory of online question answering services (AskA) is "designed to link students, teachers, parents and other K-12 community members with experts on the Internet." Each service listing includes identification information (e.g., publisher, e-mail address, contact name, and links), scope, target audience, and a general description of the service. Searchable and browsable.
• AskAsia
  A resource site for K-12 Asian and Asian-American studies programs. There are lesson plans, a large collection of country and regional maps and timelines, full-text articles on a broad range of Asia-related themes, an origami lesson, a Japanese onomatopoeia game, student-produced art, and more.
• Asking the Right Questions: Helping Mainstream Students Understand Other Cultures
  Two common tendencies that lead many mainstream students to misinterpret other cultures are the combative response and the exoticizing response. These misinterpretations, however, can be excellent learning moments for helping students understand the constructed nature of culture and the contextual nature of learning.
• Assessing Business and Marketing Teachers' Attitudes toward Cultural Pluralism and Diversity
  The Pluralism and Diversity Attitude Assessment was used to assess business and marketing teachers' attitudes toward issues related to multicultural education (315 of 1,400 responded). Although they had positive attitudes about the issues, they were resistant toward implementation of cultural pluralism and diversity.
• Assessing Dispositions toward Cultural Diversity among Preservice Teachers
  Assessed preservice teachers' attitudes toward cultural diversity prior to entering into multicultural education courses at an urban university. Respondents indicated strong support for implementing diversity issues in the classroom and high levels of agreement with equity beliefs and the social value of diversity.
• Assessing the Impact of a Prejudice Prevention Project
  Reports on the effectiveness of a prejudice prevention intervention that was used among a culturally diverse group of students in Hawaii. Results indicate that teachers observed significant improvement in the students' cooperative social skills as a result of participating in the multicultural guidance activities.
• Assessment
  Evaluation or assessment is often recognized as a roadblock to implement inquiry. Here are some references to approach the issues in a different way._ Assessment in an inquiry classrooom.
• Assessment Based on a Vision of Learning
  New Assessment for New Learning Guidebook I explores a new definition of learning which is based on cognitive, philosophical, and multicultural research perspectives. These perspectives suggest that meaningful learning occurs when a learner has a knowledge base that can be used with fluency to make sense of the world, solve problems, and make decisions.
• Assessment for Learning
  There is another way in which assessments can contribute to the development of effective schools, one that has been largely ignored.The evolution of assessment in this country over the past five decades has led to the strongly held view that school improvement requires the articulation of high achievement standards, transformation of those expectations into rigorous assessments, and expectation that educators will be held accountable for student achievement as reflected in student test scores.
• Assessment from North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
  The Critical Issues Directory from North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.
• Assessment Help for Teachers
  Teachers make judgments about students every day, based on such formal and informal appraisals of their work as classroom observation, homework assignments, and teacher-made quizzes. Soon, they'll have the first set o fprofessional standards to help guide them in making such decisions.The 220-page "Student Evaluation Standards" is on track to be approved this week by the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation, a nonprofit group whose members represent 18 national education organizations.
• Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice
  Recent decades have witnessed significant developments in the field of educational assessment. New approaches to the assessment of student achievement have been complemented by the increasing prominence of educational assessment as a policy issue.
• Assessment of Learning
  Assessmen is the systematic, on-going, iterative process of monitoring learning in order to determine what we are doing well and what we must improve. Assessment involves observing, describing, collecting, recording, scoring, and interpreting information.
• Assessment Research by Roberta Furger
  Academic research points to the benefits -- and identifies ongoing challenges -- of implementing performance assessments in K-12 classrooms. Studies also identify the impact technology can have and is having on both classroom and large-scale assessments.
• Assessment Resources
  This PowerPoint presentation introduces the assessment process. It discusses the importance of assessment, standardized testing, authentic assessment, and rubrics.
• Assessment Rubrics
  Assessment Rubrics from Kathy Schrock's web site. Now that we are using the Internet in the classroom to support instruction, it is important the area of assessment be addressed.
• Assessments of Multimedia Technology in Education
  This is a Bibliography of a growing body of research devoted to assessing the effectiveness of multimedia in all levels of education, including corporate and military training.
• Assimilation or Pluralism? Changing Policies for Minority Languages Education in Australia
  The authors trace the effects on Australian language policy of a changing sociolinguistic situation--increasing multilingualism--and a weakening of a monolingual ideology. They analyze the country' s emergence from an assimilationist past to its embracement of a more multicultural approach with special reference to young Cambodian-Australian's educational achievements that show the vital importance of school support for minority language literacy and students' subsequent professional advancement.
• Asssessment and Technology
  Assessment &Technology Project Sampler.
• Astophysics Science Project, Integrating Research and Education
  The ASPIRE Lab is now one of the most innovative and interactive science education websites available on the Internet. You will find not only fun interactive labs, but well designed and produced curriculum content, created by teachers for teachers.
• Astro-venture
  Synopsis: No, this is not a new minivan--but it is a super galactic learning adventure in which young visitors learn about what makes the planet Earth habitable for humans. Students explore careers of NASA scientists as they create their own life-supporting planets.
• Astronauts' Views of the Home Planet: Earth from Space
  Astronauts' Views of the Home Planet: Earth from Space - Fascinating images of Earth from the Space Shuttle! Searchable by type of image such as images relating to Earth-human interaction, hurricanes and weather, and more.
• At Home Astronomy
  At Home Astronomy - Hands-on science experiments for the whole family from The Center for Science Education at UC Berkeleyhttp://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/.
• Atlas of Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks, Minerals, and Textures
  Images of rocks and minerals in thin section. Entries include rock type, locality, and brief descriptions.
• Bartelby.com
  Bartelby.com, which began as a research experiment in 1993 at Columbia University, has grown into a high-quality reference tool and an extensive repository of classic literature. It includes works by hundreds of authors: including over 10,000 poems and 86,000 quotations.
• Basque, Spanish, French and English in the Basque Country
  This paper analyzes the demographic, sociolinguistic, and educational status of Basque in the whole of the Basque country: the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC), Navarre in Spain, and the Northern Basque Country in France. It also discusses English as a third language within the bilingual educational system in the BAC.
• Be a Geography Detective
  Be a Geography DetectiveOverview:At first glance, a landscape can be beautiful, boring, colorful, disturbing. Using the skills of a geography detective, however, students can learn more about the land and the relationships humans have with it.
• Beautiful Me! Celebrating Diversity through Literature and Art
  Describes the "Beautiful Me!" kindergarten unit, which uses children's literature to help children develop a rich vocabulary to describe themselves, their friends, and family, and to avoid words placing people into categories and stereotypes. Activities include providing various skin-tone crayons for drawing and using craft materials to depict hair with different textures, colors, and thickness.
• Becoming a Scientist
  DescriptionThis resource contains 11 video clips of prominent biomedical researchers responding to the question: What qualities do you need to succeed in biomedical research? All of the researchers are Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators. Transcripts are available on the site.
• Becoming a teacher in a professional development school
  Interviewed graduates from two Professional Development Schools to determine the impact of that experience on subsequent teaching practices. Graduates reported that student teaching had the greatest impact because of the extended time and depth of experience in the classroom, the quality of mentoring they received, the connections they drew between theory and practice, and the emphasis on collaboration and reflection.
• Becoming an Intercultural Mediator: A Longitudinal Study of Residence Abroad
  Examines the long-term learning of a cohort of students who had participated in a study abroad year. Draws on research that took place during the study abroad year and 10 years later.
• Becoming Successful Readers: A Volunteer Tutoring Program for Culturally Diverse Students
  A study examined how culturally diverse students increased their reading/writing performance through a structured volunteer tutoring program. Two university professors developed volunteer tutoring programs at six elementary schools in southeastern Michigan.
• Beginning Library Research on African American Studies
  This research site provides a reference guide on the historical and contemporary experiences of African Americans. It was composed by Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Services and contains numerous subject categories, including race/identity, press, literature, and history.
• Beginning To Work with Adult English Language Learners: Some Considerations. ERIC Q & A
  This paper discusses what teachers who are beginning to work with adult English language learners need to know. Recommendations in four areas are discussed: applications of adult learning in English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) contexts; second language acquisition; culture and working with multicultural groups; and instructional approaches that support language development in adults.
• Behavioral Support
  1 Assumptions About Behavior Problems and Behavior Change 2 Individualized Behavioral Support Plans: Problem Identification and Functional Assessment 3 Individualized Behavioral Support Plans: Designing, Using, and Evaluating Plans 4 Teaching Social Interaction and Self-Management Skills 5 The Classroom Community: Mutual Respect, Self-Direction, and Solving Problems Together.
• Bernie Dodge's Rubrics for Web Lessons
  Bernie Dodge, the creator of the WebQuest, has put together a good resources for teachers on rubrics. This page has information about using rubrics, links to articles, a few examples of rubrics, guidelines for creating a rubric, and a few good sites for further exploration.
• Best of History Web Sites
  This site provides categorized links to hundreds of "history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality, accuracy and usefulness. Sites with engaging content and useful multimedia technologies are most likely to be included.
• Best Practices for High School Classrooms: What Award-Winning Secondary Teachers Do
  This book provides guidance on high-impact teaching practices, offering first-hand accounts of award-winning teachers.
• Beth B. v. Van Clay
  Addresses the intersection of LRE and, Rowley, . School district's recommendation that student with Rett Syndrome be placed in special education ("life skills") classroom, with reverse mainstreaming opportunities, satisfied provision of IDEA requiring FAPE, and LRE provision of IDEA, requiring that district mainstream disabled student to greatest extent appropriate; although regular classroom would be less restrictive than special education classroom, disabled student was only in regular class for about half the day, and her academic and developmental progress was limited, so that student did not receive satisfactory education in regular classroom, and thus, recommended placement did not violate IDEA.
• Beyond Access: Methods and Models for Increasing Retention and Learning among Minority Students. New Directions for Community Colleges, Issue 112. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series
  This edition of New Directions for Community Colleges offers community college educators alternative models, approaches, and perspectives to consider in working with ethnic minority students. The volume addresses issues of assessment, career and educational goals, learning enhancement, success courses, mentoring programs, campus climate, educational technology, and the integration of nonminority instructors into the minority environment.
• Beyond an Epcot Nation: Reinventing the Multicultural for Transformative Pedagogy
  This paper critiques multiculturalism from a range of fronts and asks what underlying influence ties together its widespread criticisms. In naming this principal influence, the paper considers what new paths are possible for reinventing the multicultural in composition studies.
• Beyond Classroom-Based Early Field Experiences: Understanding an "Educative Practicum" in an Urban School and Community
  Examined the experiences of preservice teachers in an urban school and community-based early field experience (integrated with foundations of education and general methods courses). Data from observations, interviews, reflective writings, and focus groups highlighted five categories of student experience: deepening multicultural, eye-opening and transformational, masked multicultural, partially miseducative, and escaping experiences.
• Beyond Fairy Godmothers and Glass Slippers: A Look at Multicultural Variants of Cinderella
  This annotated bibliography presents a collection of multicultural Cinderella variants, all of which allow children to experience the culture within an easily identifiable framework. Variants include African/African American/American South, Asian, Jewish, Latino/Latin American/Caribbean, Middle Eastern, Native American, and other European American.
• Beyond Mulan: Rediscovering the Heroines of Chinese Folklore
  Notes how sadly the Disney treatment of the story of Mulan reduced both the character Mulan and the story's broad appeal. Presents and critiques four picture book versions of the Mulan legend.
• Beyond Multiple Intelligences: Implications for Multicultural Teachers
  Since intelligence is a highly respected universal value, education must build on sociocultural and educational expectations of diverse learners. Multicultural education is useful in tapping diverse learners' multiple intelligences.
• BGuILE learning environments
  BGuILE learning environments bring scientific inquiry into middle school science and high school biology classrooms. The environments consist of computer-based scenarios and associated classroom activities in which students conduct authentic scientific investigations.
• Bicultural Team Teaching: Experiences from an Emerging Business School
  A new graduate business course in Vietnam team taught by American and Vietnamese instructors illustrates issues in bicultural team teaching, including team formation, sharing workloads in and out of class, and evaluation/grading. The process made the class more relevant, exposed students to multiple perspectives, and helped participants appreciate their own and other cultures.
• Bilingual Education for All: A Benefits Model for Small Towns
  Suggests a curriculum for rural and small-town schools that combines bilingual education in local languages (indigenous, heritage, or immigrant languages) with global, multicultural education. Discusses benefits to students and community, and ways that the model overcomes typical rural constraints of inflexible school organization; administrative and public resistance; and lack of bilingual teachers, materials, and funding.
• Bilingual School Teachers' Cultural Mission and Practices in Alberta Before 1940
  The author explored how bilingual school teachers in the past (1934-39) in Alberta (Canada) responded to competing Francophone and Anglophone ideological cultural reproduction discourses in their curriculum practices. Studies how the exercise of power can influence teachers' decisions to either give legitimacy or resist reproducing in their classrooms certain forms of knowledge and cultural orientations.
• Biliteracy for a Global Society: An Idea Book on Dual Language Education (2000)
  This document asserts that dual language education is a program that has the potential to promote the multilingual and multicultural competencies necessary for the new global business job market while eradicating the significant achievement gap between language majority and language minority students. The appeal of dual language programs is that they combine successful educational models in an integrated classroom composed of both language majority and language minority students, with the goals of bilingualism and biliteracy, academic excellence for both groups, and multicultural competencies.
• BIODIDAC
  Database of over 5,000 line drawings, photographs, videos, and animations that can be used and adapted for teaching biology. Users can browse the index by eubacteria, protista, fungi, plantae, animalia, human biology, and histology.
• Biography
  - over 20,000 short biographies from Cambridge Dictionary of Biography .
• Biology Workbench
  Biology Workbench Education Enhancement is a collection of tutorials, project links and a discussion group related to the use of the Biology Workbench protein and nucleic acid sequence multi-database research tool developed by the National Computational Science Alliance and hosted at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California at San Diego. This project invites educators to collaborate and contribute to the development and collection of tutorial.
• BitLaw: a Resource on Technology Law
  BitLaw: a Resource on Technology LawA well-organized and useful tool on technology law, this site contains "over 1,800 pages on patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet legal issues." The major topics covered include Patent Law, Software Patents, Trademark Law, Internet Law, Legal Links, Copyright Law, Primary Sources, and Forms and Contracts. http://www.bitlaw.com/.
• Black Facts Online
  Black Facts OnlineBlack Facts Online is a large "online database of Black History information." Users can search the database by date (month and day) or keyword for facts.
• Blackboard
  Transforming the Internet into a powerful environment for teaching and learningFormed with this vision, Washington D.C.-based Blackboard Inc. has become the leading provider of Internet infrastructure software for e-Education.Blackboard offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power a total___e-Education Infrastructure___ for schools, colleges, universities, and other education providers.
• Blank & Outline Maps
  This collection includes printable outline maps of the world, continents, regions, countries, the states of the U.S., and the provinces of Canada. Maps are free "for educational or personal use at home or in the classroom." From About.com's geography page.
• Blending Cultural Anthropology and Multicultural Education: Team Teaching in a Teacher Education Program
  Describes how a large urban university and K-6 classroom teachers collaborated to design an undergraduate teacher education program in elementary and special education, creatively combining subject matter curriculum with educational issues and pedagogy to better prepare teachers to succeed in diverse urban schools. The result was the team-taught Liberal Studies Seminar in Anthropology.
• Blogger
  What is Blogger?Blogger is a web-based tool that helps you publish to the web instantly -- whenever the urge strikes. Blogger is the leading tool in the rapidly growing area of web publishing known as weblogs, or "blogs."What is a weblog/blog?A blog is a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically_like a what's new page or a journal.
• Blue Web'n
  "Blue Web'n" combines "Blue-Ribbon" and "Web" (or you can think of it as "Blue-Ribbon" in duck talk). Blue Web'n is a searchable database of about 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references,&tools).
• Book Browse: A Creative Approach to Meaningful Language Learning
  Describes one elementary teacher's use of the Book Browse literacy activity, which allows Spanish-speaking students to examine books informally in pairs or small groups. Book Browse provides a highly social situation where multiple conversations can occur among these children who need exposure to expressive language as they develop skills in both Spanish and English.
• Booktalking Across the Curriculum: The Middle Years
  This book contains booktalks for 170 titles that appeal to middle school readers and relate to middle school curriculum. Approximately 90% of the books are fiction.
• Boopadoo: Music resources for educators and families of young children
  Music resources for young children. Contains activities, free mp3 and music software downloads, free printables, free sheet music, reviews, search engine, articles, awards, and more.
• Brain matters: Translating research into classroom practice.
  Discusses the need to match teaching practice to brain functioning, but understanding how the brain functions is primary.
• Breaking Down the Walls: Camp/School Program Brings Diverse Communities Together
  The Discovery Center (Ashford, Connecticut) is a camp/university/school program that provides a positive diversity experience to preadolescents through experiential education in an outdoor, residential setting. Students from at least four cultural groups are mixed for all cabin and lab groups, and all camp activities are retooled to pursue the goal of comprehensive diversity education.
• Breaking the Cultural Cycle: Reframing Pedagogy and Literacy in a Community Context as Intervention Measures for Aboriginal Alienation
  This paper presents an alternative view to the pedagogical needs relating to literacy for Aboriginal students. The question posed is how to utilize this knowledge to lessen the impact of perceived failure in early schooling of entrenched non-attendance patterns for Aboriginal students of compulsory school attending ages.
• Bridges on the I-Way: Multicultural Resources Online
  Presents an annotated list of various multicultural education resources that are available free of charge on the World Wide Web. Topics include: multicultural and gender issues in mathematics education; barrier-free education for students with disabilities; women in education; gender and equity reform in math, science, and engineering; and a profile of equitable mathematics and science classroom teachers.
• Bridging Cultures between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers--With a Special Focus on Immigrant Latino Families
  This book focuses on how to meet the challenges of education in a pluralistic society, presenting the Bridging Cultures framework, which is designed for understanding differences and conflicts that arise in situations where school culture is more individualistic than the home value system.
• Bridging Cultures between Home and School: A Guide for Teachers--With a Special Focus on Immigrant Latino Families
  This book focuses on how to meet the challenges of education in a pluralistic society, presenting the Bridging Cultures framework, which is designed for understanding differences and conflicts that arise in situations where school culture is more individualistic than the home value system.
• Bridging Cultures in Our Schools: New Approaches That Work. Knowledge Brief
  This publication describes how teachers can begin to gain understanding of diverse students and families and their cultural values, behavioral standards, and social ideals. It presents specific examples of cross-cultural conflicts and illustrates strategies for resolving them.
• Bridging Differences of Time, Place, and Culture Using Children's and Young Adult Literature
  Focuses on the use of children's and young adult literature in the social studies classroom, addressing the New York state standards at the third- to sixth-grade levels. Provides an annotated bibliography of books that can be utilized in areas, such as U.S.
• Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice: Integrating Multicultural Theory into an Undergraduate Foundations of Education Class
  This paper describes an action plan for integrating multicultural theory into a teacher education social foundations course and presents results from an evaluation of this effort. The action plan for the course was to integrate the theory and practice of multicultural education across five master questions posed by T.
• Bridging the Gap: A School Based Staff Development Model that Bridges the Gap from Research to Practice
  Previous research suggests that without on going support teachers do not successfully implement instructional strategies learned during inservice training. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Research Lead Teacher model in providing support to general education teachers who were learning and implementing a strategy instruction process in their classrooms.
• Bridging the Home and School: A Case Study
  In today's society, there are many new technologies that educators have at their disposal to use both inside and outside of theclassroom. One such technology was the focus of the first stage of an on-going project on the "open school" model.
• Brothers of the Academy: Up and Coming Black Scholars Earning Our Way in Higher Education
  This book offers 26 papers by black male scholars that examine the experience of being a black man in the academy and demonstrate what black men have contributed to the scholarly enterprise.
• Bucket Buddies
  Are the organisms found in pondwater the same all over the world? Let your students identify organisms in a water sample, compare their findings with other participating classes, and look for relationships and trends in the data collected by all project participants. If you don't want elementary school students (grades 1-5) mucking about in a pond, there are instructions for teacher collection of samples.
• Bug Bytes
  A collection of more than forty insect sound files. Browse by species name or subject.
• Build a Prairie Game
  The prairie is one of North America's great ecosystems and a vital habitat for many plants and animals. Over 98% of the prairie has been lost in the past 150 years�but some people are trying to bring it back, hectare by hectare.
• Building a Digital Workforce
  Taking action to close the IT skills gap in the current and future workforce is a critical challenge for business, labor, education, government, and the nonprofit sector that requires urgent attention by all stakeholders. This report sets out NPA's Digital Economic Opportunity Committee's recommendations for increasing the number of U.S.
• Building an International Student Teaching Program: A California/Mexico Experience
  This paper describes the first year of an international student teaching project conducted in Mexicali, Mexico, which was successful in helping U.S. participants develop cultural understanding and critical teaching skills needed to work with English learners.
• Building Bridges: A Peace Corps Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural Understanding
  Established by the Coverdell World Wise Schools program of the Peace Corps, Building Bridges is a 48-page workbook containing 13 lessons plans created to introduce school children to cultural studies in order to increase their awareness of other cultures around the world, as well as their own. Designed primarily for grades 6-12, the workbook is free for downloading and could be of value to social studies, geography, and language arts teachers.
• Building Bridges: A Peace Corps Classroom Guide to Cross-Cultural Understanding.
  Understanding the concept of culture helps people live with others of different backgrounds within the classroom, the local community, and the worldwide scale of political, social, and economic interaction. The lessons presented in this book help students begin to more fully understand their own culture and how it has shaped them; to understand the perspectives of other cultures; and to provide an increased awareness of the value and practicality of social service within and beyond the bounds of schools.
• Building Citizenship Skills in Students
  This report presents an action research project implementing a program for the development of citizenship, cultural awareness, and positive character attributes. Targeted population consisted of middle and high school students in several growing, middle class communities located in northern Illinois.Problems of lack of awareness and sensitivity are documented through data revealing decreased civic awareness with a definite need to have students participate in activities that promote democracy and cultural awareness.
• Building Cross-Cultural Bridges--Cultural Analysis of Critical Incidents
  This guide is for all teachers. Culture forms the basis for cross-cultural awareness and understanding.
• Building policy from practice: District central office administrators' roles and capacity for implementing collaborative education policy.
  Defines district central office administrators' roles and capacity to support the implementation of school-community partnerships. Findings come from a strategic case study of Oakland, California (1990-2000).
• Building Stronger School Counseling Programs: Bringing Futuristic Approaches into the Present
  This publication brings together authors from a variety of fields to speculate about the future of counseling. Some believe that change in the future will be incremental and of a short-term nature, resolving problems as they arise.
• Building Support for Comprehensive School Improvement Programs
  Building Support for Comprehensive School Improvement Programs Offers an array of publications on components of comprehensive school improvement, professional development, community engagement, selection of classroom instructional approaches, and resource allocations, among other topics.
• Buried Treasures in the Classroom: Using Hidden Influences To Enhance Literacy Teaching and Learning. Kids InSight, K-12
  The lessons learned by this book's authors, who observed literacy events in third- and fourth-grade classrooms, altered their vision of teaching and learning. The book shares their observations of how students engage in literacy events and construct meaning within these events, focusing on three factors that significantly influence the construction of meaning in classroom settings: stance, social positioning, and interpretive authority--as well as how tensions can arise between students and teachers based on the relationship among these factors.
• Business Education Index, 2000: Index of Business Education Articles and Research Studies Compiled from a Selected List of Periodicals Published during the Year 2000. Volume 61
  This document (which is to be the last in its series) indexes business education articles and research studies compiled from a selected list of 38 periodicals published in 2000. Priority is given to journals essential to research and teaching across the broad business education spectrum.
• Business vs. Cultural Frames of Reference in Group Decision Making: Interactions among Austrian, Finnish, and Swedish Business Students
  Examines ways business and cultural frames of reference affect decision making in multicultural groups. Finds students' reactions to two class activities shows how "groupthink" arose in both exercises; cultural interference paralyzed group decision making in one group; and cultural interference demonstrated the importance of a cultural negotiation in finding common ground.
• CAIS/ACSI 2001: Beyond the Web: Technologies, Knowledge and People
  Presents abstracts of papers presented at the 29th Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) held in Quebec on May 27-29, 2001. Topics include: professional development; librarian/library roles; information technology uses; virtual libraries; information seeking behavior; literacy; information retrieval; multicultural education; information science; and knowledge management.
• CalPhotos: People and Culture
  A collection of nearly 500 photographs of people and their culture from around the globe. Searchable by location, caption, type, continent, country, U.S.
• Can professional certification for teachers reshape teaching as a career?
  IT WAS Dan Lortie who first observed that teaching is an "unstaged" career -- in the sense of lacking a progression of stages through which one can expect to advance.(FN1) Yet teachers have long known -- and often complained -- that their responsibilities seldom change from the first to the last day of work. For most, the routines of planning, teaching, grading, and meeting recur with little variation through the years.
• Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group = Groupe Canadien d'Etude en Didactique des Mathematiques. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (25th, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, May 25-29, 2001)
  This document contains the proceedings of the 2001 annual meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG) held at the University of Alberta, May 25-39, 2000.
• Career and Academic Guidance for American Indian and Alaska Native Youth. ERIC Digest
  American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) students strive to maintain their heritage while learning to be successful in the dominant culture. Although academic and career success are worthy goals, AI/AN students can pay a heavy price to achieve them.
• Career as Story: An Introduction to the Haldane Idiographic Method of Career Assessment for Multicultural Populations
  In order to take into consideration the unique experiences, background and language differences inherent among multicultural populations for the purposes of career assessment, the process must allow for the counselee to construct their own story.
• Careers across America 2002: Best Practices & Ideas in Career Development Conference Proceedings (Chicago, IL, July 7-10, 2002)
  This publication seeks to enhance the availability of best practices and ideas in career development. The papers included are derived from program presentations that were given at the July 2002 Careers across America conference.
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
  "This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics."For teachers, use the Curriculum Areas link for helpful hints in finding books in a variety of subject areas, plus lessons plans and display ideas. The site is focused on preK - 8th grade educator's needs.
• Carpet in Schools: Myth and Reality.
  Carpet can serve as a type of finish over concrete, improves the acoustical environment and helps build more conducive, personalized learning environment.
• Casa de Joanna
  Casa de Joanna is a portal to French and Spanish language resources on the Internet. The topics include art, French and Spanish, and teacher resources.
• Case Study on System Reform -Interactive Model
  GLEF ProjectINTERACTIVE FEATURE What does it take to transform an under- performing urban school district? A new multimedia case study on the Union City Public Schools explores this question in detail.
• Castle Rock Pueblo:
  Castle Rock Pueblo: A Trip Through Time. A resource for teaching about southwestern archaeology and culture.http://www.crowcanyon.org/castlerockstudyEducational field trips allow readers to "visit" an ancient Pueblo Indian (Anasazi) village in southwestern Colorado during the 1200s?when people lived at Castle Rock Pueblo, the 1800s?when the site was discovered by explorers, and the 1990's when the site was excavated by Crow Canyon archaeologists and program participants.
• Caught in the middle: District administrators' experiences in comprehensive school reform.
  Attempts to address a paradox of education reform – that both "more school autonomy and greater central office coordination are necessary" by both reviewing the literature on the district role in supporting school-based change and by drawing on data from an evaluation of the pseudonymous Riverside Public Schools' experience implementing comprehensive school reform.
• Celebrating Bidialectalism: Reconceptualizing the Role of Language and Culture in the Acquisition of Literacy and Literary Skills among African American and Other Ethnically Diverse Students
  This paper addresses the issue of how to make school matter to historically disenfranchised, inner city African American youth, as well as youth from other struggling ethnic minority groups. It asserts that one way to do this is to reconceptualize approaches to the acquisition of literacy and literacy skills in teaching, engaging, and motivating African American and other ethnic minority students.
• Celebrating Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Head Start, 1993–1996
  Noting that the dramatic demographic changes in the United States in the last 30 years require that Head Start programs learn how to access new populations, encourage their participation, and tailor programs to meet their unique needs, this study was commissioned to better understand the diversity in language and culture of the Head Start population.
• Center for Innovative Learning Technology
  CILT focuses much of its work in four cross-institutional theme teams: Visualization and Modeling, Ubiquitous Computing, Community Tools, and Assessments for Learning. Within the broader field of learning technologies, these themes were selected as areas of critical challenge and important opportunity.Each theme team is composed of two or more leaders in the field, a postdoctoral scholar, and a broader network of participants who collaborate through workshops and projects to set agendas and further the work of the field.
• Center for Problem Based Learning
  Center for Problem Based Learning - Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy The team that put this page together did a great job describing the components of PBL. A tutorial and examples of PBL units are included.
• Center for Women and Information Technology
  This site provides links to online resources relating to women and information technology (IT) including news, learning the basics of computers, careers in IT, training and certification, and more. There is also a bibliography and a FAQ (with links to many outside resources).
• CforAT Center for Accessible Technology
  The Center for Accessible Technology (CforAT) began life in 1983 when a group of parents of children with disabilities came together to develop strategies for including their children into mainstream elementary school settings. With an initial focus on computer technology, these parents developed models whereby kids with disabilities could be fully included in the school curriculum.The Center has kept its inclusion focus, and over time has broadened its goals to include participation in higher education, employment and community.
• Challenges and consequences of standards-based reform: A brief analysis based on evaluation data from school districts supported by the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
  Describes five positive outcomes of the Clark Foundation's support for standards-based middle school reform in Corpus Christi, San Diego, and Long Beach districts. Districts developed and implemented content and performance standards and provided principals, as well as teachers, with professional development focused on improving instruction.
• Challenges of conflicting school reforms: Effects of New American Schools in a high-poverty district.
  Book describes a two-year, mixed method study examining, first, the differences between classrooms of schools adopting New American Schools (NAS) designs and the classrooms of non-NAS campuses and, second, the relationships between classroom conditions and student achievement within a high-poverty, urban Texas school district.
• Changes in Preservice Teachers' Knowledge and Beliefs about Language Issues
  Examined how predominantly female, white preservice teachers' knowledge and beliefs about language issues changed after an intensive multicultural education course. Data from surveys and course assignments indicated that students made significant gains in three areas: personal beliefs about diversity; professional beliefs about diversity; and multicultural education knowledge.
• Changing Higher Education Curricula for a Global and Multicultural World
  Outlines a framework for changing curricula in higher education in order to prepare students to succeed in a culturally diverse, globally interdependent world. The framework components include focused and infused curriculum changes, increase expertise of a diverse and international faculty, linkages with other universities and organizations, and recruitment of diverse and international students.
• Changing Views about International Activities in American Teacher Education Programs
  This paper provides a historical overview of international education trends in U.S. colleges, including teacher education programs, comparing current research with data from the 1970s.
• Changing What Is Taught: Hearing the Voices of the Underrepresented
  In 1991, policy makers at Florida State University made the decision to require all students to take multicultural courses to fulfill general education requirements. This article provides insights into the challenges that institutional policy makers face as they seek to change the curriculum to include the voices of those previously underrepresented.
• Character Education through Story: K-6 Lessons To Build Character through Multi-Cultural Literature
  This resource manual integrates literature and social studies with an emphasis on character development. Using children's literature as a catalyst for investigating representative cultures, the manual's curriculum writers crafted multicultural, integrated, thematic lessons for the K-6 classroom that can be used throughout the year.
• ChemMatters
  - Great online resource for High School chemistry teachers brought to you by the American Chemical Society. Pdf versions of "ChemMatters" magazine, geared towards a high school audience, are available online along with the corresponding teachers' guides.
• CHemviz
  ChemVizThe Chemistry Visualization program at NCSA (ChemViz) is a program which uses the power of the World Wide Web in combination with the power of the SGI supercomputer to generate images of atoms, molecules, and atomic orbitals. The user inputs a set of parameters as they are prompted and submits these parameters to the supercomputer.
• Chicano Arts Digital Image Collection
  This collection of 500 images with descriptions is a representative sampling of the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives (CEMA) at UC Santa Barbara's library. They are a small cross-section of four of California's most important Chicano Latino cultural arts centers and galleries: San Diego's Centro Cultural de la Raza, Los Angeles' Self-Help Graphics and Art, San Francisco's Galeria de la Raza, and Sacramento's Royal Chicano Air Force.
• Child Development in the Context of Multicultural Pre-School Education
  This study examined the impact of a multicultural preschool curriculum in Slovenia on preschool children's sensitization to cultural differences and understanding of themselves, others, and different cultures. The curriculum was implemented for a 1-month period for 6.6- to 7-year-olds.
• Children of Mixed Race--No Longer Invisible
  Schools often ignore the existence and special concerns of multiracial and multiethnic students, whose numbers are increasing faster than those of monoracial children. Serving these students requires changing teacher education, recording heritage sensitively, assessing formal and informal curricula, revising ethnic and racial celebrations, addressing harassment, and promoting anti-bias activities.
• Children with Communication Disorders: Update 2001. ERIC Digest
  This digest discusses various types of communication disorders, their incidence, the learning difficulties associated with them, the special case of English language learners, and the educational significance of communication disorders.
• Children's and Young Adult Literature by Latino Writers: A Guide for Librarians, Teachers, Parents, and Students
  This guide is designed to help librarians, teachers, parents, and students learn and teach about Latinos and find appropriate reading materials by Latinos. The titles in the guide are in print and available for purchase as of the printing of this book.
• Children's Butterfly Site
  This site is an good companion site for a unit on butterflies. It contains a photo gallery of butterflies from aro