Education: Internet Websites

EDSITEment is a partnership among the National Endowment for the Humanities, Verizon Foundation, and the National Trust for the Humanities. EDSITEment offers a treasure trove for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality material on the Internet in the subject areas of literature and language arts, foreign languages, art and culture, and history and social studies. Includes many links to other websites, and lesson plans.

Comprehensive site supporting K-12 educators with lesson plans, professional development, school issues resources, administration resources, and information technology integration.

The Educator's Reference Desk has over 2,000 lesson plans, links to over 3,000 sources of online education information, and over 200 question archive responses.

More than 30 federal agencies formed a working group to make hundreds of federally supported educational resources available at this website.

The Literacy Web is designed to promote the use of the Internet as a tool to assist classroom teachers in their search for best practices in literacy instruction, including the new literacies of Internet technologies.

This site is useful for all advocates of appropriate education for young children -- legislators, policy makers, administrators, researchers, teacher-educators, and parent activists.

An attractive, easy to navigate set which is aimed at educators. Resources include video and audio, interactives, images, documents, lesson plans, and student activities, all correlated to state and national standards. Although a free site, it does require registration.

Includes all types of free helps for teachers -- especially lesson plans.

Supported by the International Children's Digital Library Foundation whose mission is to make the best in children's literature available online free of charge. Their goal is goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature from the world community.

Kidsreads is the best place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors. Reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors and special features on great books are our specialties.

Snapshot: School District Profiles is a Texas Education Agency product that provides an overview of public education in Texas for a particular school year. In addition to state-level information, this website contains a profile about the characteristics of each public school district.

Beginning in spring 2012, the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR™) will replace the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS). The STAAR program at grades 3–8 will assess the same subjects and grades that are currently assessed on TAKS. At high school, however, grade-specific assessments will be replaced with 12 end-of-course (EOC) assessments: Algebra I, geometry, Algebra II, biology, chemistry, physics, English I, English II, English III, world geography, world history, and U.S. history.

Homepage for the state agency responsible for teacher certification. Click on the link "How to become a teacher in Texas" for important information on Teacher certification.

This is "the administrative unit for primary and secondary public education" in the state of Texas.

This is a link to the Texas Education Agency publication listing the currently adopted textbooks in Texas. This list is in PDF format.

Includes materials for TExES (Texas Examinations of Educator Standards™) and ExCET (Examination for the Certification of Educators in Texas). Page also includes links for exam registration and other important information.

This site will provide you with information on the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), which are the state standards for what students should know and be able to do.

TSTA is the state association affiliated with the National Education Association. Focuses on public schools.