Administration of Schools

• Who is Leading our Schools? An Overview of School Administrators and their Careers.  A publication of Rand, a nonprofit institution that helps to improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.
• Principals' Institute - EDP Library Resource Page.  Includes bibliographies of books and periodicals, links to professional associations, databases, reports, etc.
• Journals re Educational Administration with online links.
  
• See also, Funding and Finance.
  
• See also, Reports, Papers & Studies.

• California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. This site contains "how to" information for obtaining a credential, California examination information, and California Educational Standards.
• CBEST.  California Basic Educational Skills Test for teacher certification.
• 50 States' Certification Requirements. Univ. of Kentucky project. Includes job announcements.
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Provides information and requirements regarding National Board Certification.
• CalTeach. California Center for Teaching Careers provides information and referral services.

Class Size

• California Class Reduction.  Preliminary Report on the California Class Size Program.

• Charter Schools Resource Page.  Center for Education Reform.
• California Charter School Page.  California Department of Education.
• U.S. Charter School Home Page.  How to start and operate a charter school.
• See also, Reports, Papers & Studies.

• Professional Associations, Conferences & Projects. Educational organizations,  professional associations, conferences, and special initiatives and projects, often with links to educational publications.

• Distance Education Clearinghouse.  University of Wisconsin's comprehensive guide.

• Pre-K Education.  Reports and website sponsored by Pew Charitable Trust.

• Wisconsin Center for Education Research. Contains working papers and links to research in education, such as secondary education reform, mathematics education. Online newsletter.
• See Search Engines and Databases, Statistics.
  

• California Association for Bilingual Education.  CABE's website provides information on publications, issues, conferences and careers in bilingual education. 
• National Association for Bilingual Education.  The NABE website provides information on publications, conferences and professional issues in the field of bilingual education.
• National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Education Programs.  Formerly, the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, the NCELA&LIE provides papers and information on bilingual education on its website. 
• CAELA.  Center for Adult English Language Acquisition.  Contains information and publications in the area of English as a Second Language Literacy, plus links to other ESL sources.
• National Research Council.  Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children. March 1998 Report which calls for ensuring that all children are equipped with the skills and instruction they need to learn to read. The report is no longer online, but may be obtainable from NRC.

• Family and Society Studies Worldwide - searchable database via UC Libraries.
  
• The Connection Collection: School-Family-Community Publications Database.  A database of full-text articles and citations about family involvement in schools. Sponsored by the National Center for Family & CommunityConnections with Schools.
• Women's Studies International - searchable database via UC Libraries.
  

• California Frameworks.  California Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources.

• Business Source Premier - searchable database via UC Libraries.
  
• Department of Education Fiscal Year 2005 Congressional Action. 

• History of Education.  Selected moments in the 20th century.  Mostly about North America. By  Daniel Schugurensky of University of Toronto.
• History of American Education Web Project. College essays tracing American education.
• Blackwwell History of Education Museum.  Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL.
• History of Education Society.  International scholarly society devoted to history of education. Links to events, bibliographies, resources. 

• Homeschooling Resource Page.  A comprehensive resource for homeschooling information.
• Homeschooling in the United States: Trends and Characteristics (August 2001).  This report presents social, demographic and geographic characteristics of households that engage in homeschooling and examines the potential for growth.
• National Home Education Research Institute.  NERA does research and provides facts and statistics that may help especially when dealing with legal issues.
• Scholastic Achievement and Demographic Characteristics of Home School Students in 1998. By Dr. Lawrence M. Rudner, this study is one of the largest on home education to date and provides a portrait of America's home education movement.
• See also NCES for statistics on home education.
  

• What Works Clearinghouse

• African Education.  AllAfrica.com provides news about education in African countries.

• Search Pathfinder for Journal titles at University of California Berkeley.
• Search CDL-Melvyl for Journal titles at the University of California.
• For journals regarding Educational Administration at UCB see Journals.

• Access Excellence. Bioscience.
  
• Center for Science Education. Provides resources and toolkits for teaching science.
• Cornell Math & Science Gateway.
• Fermilab Education Lab. Teacher resources.
• Frank Potter's Science Gems.
• Froggy Page.  All about frogs.
• Galileo Project.
  
• Hands-on Science Centers. Worldwide science centers.
• Jason Project. Science and math for teachers, homeschoolers.
• Math Forum. Drexel University.
• NASA Quest. NASA's education site.
• Project 2061.  Education site by American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  
• Science.gov.  The U.S. federal government's portal to science education and science information.
• Science Learning Network.
• TERC.  Math, science and technology education.
  
• TIMSS. Third International Mathematics and Science Study (Pursuing Excellence), by IES
• WISE.  Web-based inquiry science environment.

• NLE.  The United States' National Library of Education is the world's largest library devoted to education.
• Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM). A consortium effort to provide access to substantial, uncataloged collections of educational materials found on various Internet sites.
• National Clearinghouse of Educational Facilities (NCEF).  A resource for people who plan, design, build, operate and maintain K-12 schools.
  

• Teach for America.  Teach for America Project's homepage.
• See also, Urban Education and Rural Education.
  

• Absence Unexcused: Ending Teacher Shortages in High-Need Areas. (2002)  Urban Institute study of the Pathways to Teaching Careers teaching preparation programs. 
• Boyer Commission.  Reinventing Undergraduate Education.
• Bush Education Initiative: "No Child Left Behind".  This documents outlines President's Bush's education policy recommendations to Congress.  His goals include testing to assess student performance and the success of individual schools, decreasing regulatory involvement in school policymaking, improving teacher quality, increasing literacy, and providing choices for parents whose children are in failing schools.
• The Condition of Education 2000-2006.  2004; 2003.  This annual NCES report presents trends and developments in American education.  Themes include children's reading achievement, participation and persistence in education, student performance, environment for learning, and societal support for education. 
• The Condition of Education 2002.  This annual NCES report contains 44 indicators in six areas: enrollment trends and student characteristics; student achievement;  student effort and progress among different populations; quality of elementary and secondary education; context of post-secondary education; and societal support for learning.  Also information on the environment, climate, enrollment, private school outcomes, and nontraditional undergraduates.
• Government Resources. California, national, federal and local documents relating to education.
• Office of Educational Research and Improvement.  Archive of U.S. Department of Education research papers on a variety of topics including the arts, charter schools, safety, reform, bi-lingual education, at-risk students, financing, disabled students, class size, early childhood development, etc.
• The Importance of Leadership: The Role of School Principals.  This report, by IBM Endowment for the Business of Government, examines common leadership traits of principals.  Visit the Endowment, then click on "Publications." Enter "leadership" in the title field to search.
  
• The Nation's Report Card: Fourth Grade Reading 2000.  Released April 2, 2001, this report assesses the reading skills of fourth-graders nationally and finds that the gap between the highest and lowest performing students has widened over the past eight years; girls continue to outperform boys in reading; and student average reading scores hae remained stable since 1992.
• The Principal, Keystone of a High-Achieving School:  Attracting and Keeping the Leaders We Need.  This Educational Research Service report examines the national principal shortage and the methods to address the situation.  Available for ordering from EDS and 800-791-9308.
• Quality Counts 2002: Building Blocks to Success.  The 2002 Report focuses on importance of high quality learning during he pre-k-12 school years. Provides statistics and interactive data searching.
• State Profiles of Pubic Elementary and Secondary Education, 1996-97.  A report by the National Center for Education Statistics

• National Education Association on Rural Education.
• National Rural Education Association.
• OCRE. Organizations concerned with rural education.
  
• Rural School and Community Trust.
• Statistics on rural schools. NCES.
  

• Education Index (WilsonWeb) - via UC Libraries.
• ERIC (CSA) - via UC Libraries.
• Educational Research Abstracts - via UC Libraries.
• CQ Researcher - via UC Libraries.
• See Social Science Databases available via UC Libraries.
• Michigan Library's Education Page.  Links to many special topics in education, plus a good search engine for education.
  
• ProQuest K-12. Includes both free and subscription information for administrators, educators and parents.  Links to organizations, schools, curriculum materials, educational technology resources.
• See also Search Engines.
  

• UC Berkeley Service Learning Research and Development Center.  Established in 1994 in the Graduate School of Education to help better understand the implications of service activities on teaching, learning and schooling.
• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.  The NSLC suppports the service learning community by providing information, referrals and resources. Links to the Students in Service to America Guidebook .
  
• Service Learning organizations.  Links to organizations supporting service learning and experiential education. 
• Youth Service California (YSCal) links to service learning sites

• Bay Area School Districts. Homepages of school district offices that contain demographics, test scores, current events, job openings and data.
• California Association of Independent Schools.  The CAIS website provides a search engine for locating individual independent schools.
• California County Offices of Education. County webpages contain directories of local public schools.
• Visit the EDP Library's Reference Collection or search Pathfinder for more school directories covering California, national and international private and public schools on all levels.

• Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
  
• Center for Education Reform.
  
• Center for Reinventing Public Education.  Research reports and papers on issues of U.S. urban school districts.
  
• Coalition of Essential Schools.
  
• Consortium for Policy Research in Education.
  
• EdSource.  California educational policy and news
• Education Trust.
• Regional Educational Laboratory Program of Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Dept. of Ed.
  

• PAIS & PAIS Archives
  
• Social Work Abstracts
• Sociological & Social Services Abstracts

• Digest of Educational Statistics. Search "special education."
  
• OSERS. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. U.S. Dept. of Education.
  

• NASLIN.North American Sports Library Network. An archived page from 1995.
• PE Central.  Information, resources, lesson plans for PE teachers.
• Scholarly Sports Sites.  Directory of websites on sports.  Published by University of Calgary.
  

Standards for Education

• Department of Education's Standards Resources. An Archive.
  
• Developing Educational Standards.  A resource website maintained by Charles Hill and the Putnam Valley Central schools in NewYork.  The site links to K-12 standards by state and by subject area, to U.S. and foreign resources, and to labs, clearinghouses and organizations concerned with educational standards.
• Goals 2000: Reforming Education to Improve Student Achievement.  April 30, 1998. An Archive.
  
• Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation.  A peer-reviewed online journal.
  
• McREL. Search for subject specific standards or browse a wide range.  Includes background and information on development standards.

• See Statistics Resources. California, national and international educational statistics.

• InTime Project.  Teacher training videos.  Univ. of No. Iowa project integrating new technologies in teaching methods.
• Education's Week.  See the Technology Link for articles on technology in schools.
  
• CLOE Stories. University of Waterloo site on learning objects.
• The instructional use of learning objects. An online book edited by David Wiley.
• Learning Objects. Whybrow presentation on learning objects.
• Learning Objects: What? University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee site on learning objects.

• ACT, Inc.  ACT is a nonprofit organization that provides services regarding assessment for schools, educational planning, careers and  workforce development.  Site includes links to abstracts of research reports.  ACT also maintains a staffed library and online catalog at its Iowa City office. 
• CBEST.  Homepage for the California Basic Educational Skills Test.
• Educational Testing Service.  ETS homepage providing links and information on educational assessment, tests, measurements and educational research.
• ETS Test Collection Database. The Educational Testing Service maintains a searchable database of standardized tests and research instruments.
• STAR Test Results 2005.  California Standardized Testing and Reporting Homepage.
• The SAT.  History, background and overview.  From PBS's Frontline.
• See also, Reports, Papers & Studies. 

• 19th Century Schoolbooks.  A digital collection of historic textbooks.
• H-Urban Teaching Center Syllabus Archive. Michigan State University archive of syllabi in urban history and studies.
• World Lecture Hall.  (University of Texas) Seachable database of course materials on many topics including education, internet for educators, and psychology. 

Urban Schools

• National Institute for Urban School Improvement.  Homepage that includes links to publications and urban schools sites.
• Perspectives on Urban Education. University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education's electronic journal on urban education.
• Urban Studies - Sage journals via UC Libraries.