AFT advocates sound, commonsense public education policies, including high academic and conduct standards for students and greater professionalism for teachers. Their site contains opportunities for professional development, news, and publications and reports.

Apple Learning Interchange offers a great variety of teaching and learning materials including creative ideas for lessons or classroom projects and a digital learning events section.

Awesome Library.org contains over 27,000 carefully reviewed resources categorized by subject and divided into teacher, kids, teens, college students, parents, and librarian pages.

This site is a resource guide for developing standards across the United States.

DiscoverySchool.com is dedicated to making teachers and learning an exiciting, rewarding adventure for students, teachers, and parents. To that end DiscoverySchool.com provides innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable resources for students and smart advice for parents about how to help their kids enjoy learning and excel in school.

ERIC is a digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. It provides a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.

A free website offering peer review of hardware, software (instructional and administrative) and services in the K-12 and Higher Ed markets.

The Educator's Reference Desk contains over 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues. This collection includes Internet sites, educational organizations, lesson plans, and electronic discussion groups.

Grant Wrangler is a grants listing service offered by Nimble Press at no charge. It makes it easier for teachers to search for grants by subject area, grade level, or grant name. With more than $11.5 million in grants listed, the goal is to help more schools find funding for all areas of learning and growth for K-12 education. You can also sign up for the monthly Grant Wrangler Bulletin through this site.

Health Information Tennessee, HIT, is a public information web site that disseminates Tennessee health related data interactively for use by the public, researchers, educators, students, community based health organizations, libraries and other interested parties. HIT provides online access to official State of Tennessee data for births, deaths, population, nursing home and hospital facilities, featuring Data Query - that can provide users with customized tables, graphic bar or pie charts, area plots and trends from the Tennessee Department of Health data based on user-specified selection of variables.

The High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium (HPR*TEC) helps teachers and other educators create, share, or find solutions to problems they encounter when integrating technology into education.

Organized by content area and grade level, this Web site allows Indiana's Academic Standards, and their accompanying resources, to be viewed, printed, or downloaded. These resources are the online tools for teachers to use in aligning classroom instruction and assessment to Indiana's Academic Standards.

I4C's website contains a large collection of links for K-12 educators, on-line practice modules, and a list of websites that can integrated into your everyday teaching.

When making your education technology purchases, ISTE's Seal of Alignment guarantees that products, services, or resources with the Seal have undergone rigorous, independent evaluation by expert reviewers and are NETS-aligned. ISTE's National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) are the recognized standard of excellence for education technology, and NETS-aligned products and services help educators meet today's tough student assessment standards.

The K-20 Technology Solutions Center is your place to practice due diligence in ed-tech purchasing. You can identify the leading education technology providers (browse by keyword, company name, or product category), discover featured products, review relevant research briefs, case studies, and white papers, and learn how and where to get needed funding. Get the latest company and product updates inside the Product News Update.

K12IMC.org contains over 2,100 annotated resources that assist in creating classroom projects, lesson plans and professional development opportunities while supporting standards and assessment practices.

Learning Point Associates have been awarded a five-year contract by the U.S. Department of Education to establish a new National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality. The center will provide guidance to ensure a highly qualified teacher in every classroom.

Moodle is a course management system designed to help educators who want to create quality online courses. The software is used all over the world by universities, schools, companies and independent teachers. Moodle is open source and completely free to use.

The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) is the profession's mechanism to help establish high quality teacher preparation.

NEA's website features issues in education (such as Accountability and No Child Left Behind) and offers pages designed with specific information just for Members & Educators and Parents & Community.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has developed this site for Internet lessons and resources in astronomy.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has developed this site for Internet lessons and resources in biology.

The Northeast & the Islands Regional Technology In Education Consortium (NEIRTEC) focuses on helping educational leaders at the state, district, and school levels put technology to effective use in schools.

The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has begun a blog as part of its campaign to address the scheduled 2007 reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

Project SMARTArt is a free online program for teaching media literacy skills to K-5 students. The site offers professional development guides, sample lesson plans, and integrated classroom activities.

ProProfs.com has launched ProProfs Quiz School which is a free tool that will enable educators to create online quizzes and practice tests for their students. The site also has a free quiz library in which teachers can seach for existing quizzes, share quizzes with their colleagues and post quizzes.

Quia Web gives instructors the ability to create customized educational software online, built around their own course materials and made available to students over the Web.

The American Anthropological Association has created a new interactive educational program titled RACE: Are We So Different? The website features the Game of Life Experience, in which students take a walk in someone else's shoes, as well as quizzes, timelines and other activities to help students learn about the history of racial issues in America, human variation around the world and race as a "lived experience."

Scholastic.com contains a wealth of valuable information customized for kids, families, teachers, administrators, adn librarians. Just some of the features found under the teacher section include: teacher tools and strategies, online activities, and lesson plans.

The Smithsonian Education site is full of essentials for educators. In addition to lesson plans and field trips, this site provides resources tied to Tennessee State Standards. An abundance of information available!

Teachnology.com offers teachers free access to lesson plans, education news, printable worksheets and activities, and over 256,000 links to reviewed educational websites.

Tennessee residents have access to the Tennessee Electronic Library through their State Library, academic institutions, public libraries and schools. Please use the password Elvis.

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The Internet Public Library (IPL) is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. This site provides library services to Internet users.

The National Education Association (NEA) is the nation's largest professional employee organization and is committed to advancing the cause of public education.

The National High School Center serves as a resource network for practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to meet the needs of all high school students so these students receive the quality education and services necessary to graduate from high school ready to succeed in college, work, and life.

Oracle Education Foundation (OEF) has announced Version 4 of its think.com web-based learning community.

At Web English Teacher educators can take advantage of online technology to share ideas and to benefit from the work of others.

Grade Connect is an easy-to-use course management system that's packed with an impressive array of features proven to help teachers manage their courses more easily.

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