World Wide Web (WWW) Links Pertaining to Public Education

Click on the sites below to go to them. More links will be added soon. You can
also try to find your own sites. Click on the links to the search engines below. They
will take you to web sites that are designed to connect you to pages on any range
of subjects. In the "Search" field type "Education" or anything else you want to find.

Sites with an asterisk (*) next to them are recommended.

If you know of a site that you think would be good for this list, please e-mail Colin Koopman
at "koopmanc@elwha.evergreen.edu" with the site address or the name of the site and the
name of the search engine you found it on. Alternately, let me (or the program faculty) know about
site.



Click on one of the listed items below to jump to a list of web sites pertaining to that topic:

  • Education Theorists
  • Arendt
  • Dewey
  • Foucault
  • Plato
  • Rousseau
  • Organizations, Institutions, Government, etc.
  • Government and Education
  • Education Research at Other Academic Institutions
  • Statistics on Education
  • Assessment Testing and Related
  • Alternative Schooling (Home Schooling, Charter, Waldorf/Steiner, Montessori)
  • National and Statewide Education-focused Organizations
  • Local School Organizations
  • Other Education-Related Topics
  • Behavioral Modification
  • Moral and Character Education
  • Nietzsche
  • Misc
  • General Web Sites
  • World Wide Web Search Engines

  • Arendt

  • Essay on Arendt and Cyberspace, "Hannah Arendt in Cyberspace"
  • Dewey

  • *DeweyWeb at the University of Michigan
  • DeweyWeb links to Education Sites

  • Foucault

  • Bjorn Christensen's Page on Foucault
  • Plato

  • *Bjorn Christensen's Page on Plato
  • *Bernard Suzanne's Plato Page
  • *ALL! Of Plato's books online from the University of Idaho
  • Hypertext version of Plato's Crito
  • Plato
  • Plato
  • Plato's Allegory of the Cave
  • Rousseau

  • *Bjorn Christensen's Page on Rousseau
  • Rousseau Page
  • Discussion of Rousseau's The Social Contract
  • Government and Education

  • Information on I-173 (November Ballot in Wash. State)
  • Information on I-177 (November Ballot in Wash. State)
  • **U.S. Department of Education (This site has extensive information on a very broad variety of topics. There are pages dedicated to explaining the Department of Education's goals and reform projects (such as Goals 2000). Many other pages are dedicated to national education statistics. Links to education resources all over the Internet. This is one of the most thorough Internet sites on education that I have found so far. It should be useful for many research projects).
  • U.S. Department of Education Online Publications
  • *WWW.WA.GOV's Education Page (This page contains a number of links to useful information concerning education in washington state. Of particular note is that this page contains links to all colleges in the state, most teacher organizations in the state, and many other education-focused organizations in the state.)
  • *WWW.OR.GOV's Education Page (See WA.GOV above)
  • Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for Washington State
  • Oregon Department of Education
  • Education Research at Other Academic Institutions

  • **Columbia University Interactive Study Space on "Philosophy and Education" (This page is highly recommended for theoretical focus on
    Education and Philosophy)
  • ILT-CU on Dewey
  • ILT-CU Dewey's Democracy and Education Online
  • ILT-CU on Plato
  • ILT-CU Plato's The Republic Online
  • ILT-CU Richard Nettleship's The Theory of Education in the Republic of Plato Online
  • ILT-CU on Rousseau
  • ILT-CU on Socrates
  • ILT-CU Plato's Meno Online
  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock, College of Education Online
  • Statistics on Education

  • Oregon State's School District Data Book Profiles (Information on almost every school district in the nation)
  • Statistics and Reports from the Oregon Department of Education
  • Assessment Testing and Related Topics

  • **National Assessment of Education Progress homepage. (Text from the site: "The NAEP is mandated by Congress to monitor continuously the knowledge, skills, and performance of the nation's children and youth. Under this legislation, the NAEP is required to provide objective data about student performance at national, regional, and, on a trial basis, state levels.)
  • A more simplistic text-only overview of the NAEP
  • Current NAEP Agenda
  • NAEP Document: "Trends in Academic Progress"
  • *NAEP Document: "NAEP 1994 Reading: A First Look" (This document is a very in-depth look at reading ability in America's public scools. This document is very revealing as to the philosophy of education and assessment that the NAEP favors.)
  • NAEP Document: "NAEP 1994 U.S. History: A First Look"
  • NAEP Document: "NAEP 1994 Geography: A First Look"
  • Selected NAEP Bibliography (No online links, you will have to find the materials listed here on your own.)
  • Alternative Schooling (Home, Charter, Waldorf, Montessori)

    Home

  • Yahoo's List of Homeschool Pages on the Web
  • Home Education Resource Center (HERC)
  • Home Educators' Resource Online (HERO)
  • Keystone National High School (Home School) Homepage
  • Charter

  • Center for Education Reform Page on Charter Schools
  • Charter School Research
  • Waldorf

  • Waldorf School FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
  • Directory of Waldorf Schools in North America
  • *Association of Waldorf Schools of North America Homepage
  • *Rudolf Steiner College Homepage
  • Montessori

  • American Montessori Society Homepage
  • North American Montessori Teacher's Association
  • Center for Contemporary Montessori Programs
  • Montessori Links on the Web (Many Montessori Schools listed)
  • National and Statewide Education-focused Organizations

  • Washington Education Association (WEA)
  • National Education Association (NEA)
  • Washington School Information Processing Center (Information clearinghouse for education resources in Washington state)
  • Washington Education Network (WEdNet is a statewide telecommunications network being installed in schools all over Washington state)
  • Local Schools

  • *Washington State K-12 Education Servers
  • Visit the North Thurston High School Rams! (Located in Lacey, WA)
  • Visit the Yelm Middle School Home Page
  • Behavioral Modification (and ADD)

  • Behavior Analysis work at the University of South Florida
  • Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis
  • National Attention Deficit Disorder Association
  • Attention Deficit Disorder Archives
  • ADDNET
  • Text Document: "Modification for Students with Tourette's, ADD, etc.."
  • Morality and Character Education

  • *Studies in Moral Development and Education (at UIC) homepage
  • *Character Education Institute
  • *Values in Action! Network
  • Educational Psychology Interactive: ìMoral and Character Development: Overviewî (The Educational Psychology Interactive material from Bill Huittís courses at Valdosta State University, specifically PSY 310 and the graduate PSY 702.)
  • Educational Psychology Interactive: ìMoral and Character Development: Backgroundî
  • Educational Psychology Interactive: ìImpacting Moral and Character Developmentî
  • *Educational Psychology Interactive: ìValuesî
  • The Character Education Page
  • Center for the Fourth and Fifth Rs
  • General

  • *Bjorn Christensen's Philosophy Page
  • The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Search Engines

  • Yahoo
  • Yahoo's Education Page
  • WebCrawler
  • Lycos
  • Alta Vista
  • INSPIRE Gopher Web Server (useful resource for finding Education information via Gopher)
  • NCES Search Engine (Search Engine for Education Information!)



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