One of the most interesting places for students and educators to visit on the Internet. Much to do and much to see - it's never a boring visit.
Anyone involved with K-12 education can also send an email inquiry to the AskERIC email site. Send inquiries to:
One of the best ways to research educational and related topics and find many periodical, journal and professional writings on various topics that are educationally related. A windfall of useful and important information for both the researcher and the educator that wishes to be well informed about the educational profession. The articles and writings can be easily saved and printed out by using a "screen dump" or saving the actual article to your computer. Telnet sessions can be logged and saved as a text file to peruse later when you are off-line.
LOCIS provides the Library of Congress card catalog and all three Library of Congress sites offer plenty of information. You can find abstracts of foreign and domestic bills, info on laws, Congressional bill tracking (dating back to 1993) and much more. All three offer the researcher excellent bibliographic data although LOCIS is geared specifically to such a task. LOCIS supports advanced search techniques and offers fast info look-up and retrieval. LOC sites (gopher and web) offer alternative means of accessing Congressional information and also offer many links to outside sources and related topics/info. These three sites should be on every researcher's "must visit" list.
Wonderfully done - a virtual tour and more of the world famous institute.
Contains an extensive set of documents and information relating to education and educational issues.
Contains info, links and virtual tours of the White House
All sorts of Presidential papers are available to the public. Including all White House transcripts and press releases. All sorts of concise political info within this second directory path.
A vast site filled with political and governmental info and topics.
An unbelievably huge database of archives and information. Has a very wide variety of issues, topics and papers. Includes the current Federal Budget statistics and much, much more. Please explore and go into the many sub-directories available through these sites. Another researcher's must see site. There is positively too much to list or begin to explain here.
Global learning center promotes learning across boundaries and the sharing of information on a world-wide scope. Many countries are involved.
Info on the NYSE Dept unix5 gopher
Please read the following digest for site information and Internet access to the educational resources.
Recent noteworthy additions to the ED/OERI World Wide Web, Gopher, FTP, and Mail Servers include the following:
(All of the above files are available in ASCII plain text format; many are also available in html format. All are available through World Wide Web as well as Gopher and most are available through FTP and our Almanac mail server. See the end of this message for access instructions.)
In addition, significant changes to our World Wide Web site include:
The 1994 Condition of Education, one of the major annual publications of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), includes sixty indicators on the condition of education. It provides a means to report where progress is being made in education and where it is not, to draw attention to emerging issues, and to inform the ongoing policy debate. The sixty indicators are organized into six sections:
Instead of separating elementary and secondary education from postsecondary education indicators, the volume integrates issues ranging from early childhood education to postsecondary education into each of the six sections.
The main textual sections of the volume may be viewed online. The complete contents of each section are available for downloading in a compressed file which contains all text and tables in ASCII and graphics in GIF format.
The 1994 Condition is available on the Gopher under:
The Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR), which the Department has traditionally provided to its discretionary and formula grant recipients only in a printed edition, is now also available electronically for online browsing and downloading. Composed of Parts 74-86 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, EDGAR governs the administration of discretionary and formula grants awarded by the Department.
Traditionally, EDGAR has been one of the Department's most popular publications, with tens of thousands of copies being distributed across the nation to grant recipients and the public each year. While EDGAR continues to be available in print format, it is hoped that this new electronic version will improve service to the Department's customers by offering very rapid access to the regulatory texts for searching citations and printing locally with downloaded files. The online version is the same text as the printed edition with the cover date of January 1, 1995.
Each part of EDGAR may be viewed or downloaded separately. The entire document is available as a single compressed file for downloading.
Sixty-eight new ERIC Digests have been added to the full-text searchable WAIS database.
The WAIS database now contains a total of 1,368 ERIC Digests. The full text of each Digest is included, along with selected information from the ERIC bibliographic record--author, title, publication date, and ERIC descriptors and identifiers.
ERIC Digests are:
The WAIS database may be accessed under:
Several months ago, the U.S. Department of Education issued a 44- page booklet on Goals 2000. "An Invitation to Your Community," as it's called, is designed to help schools & communities develop their own comprehensive plans and broad-based partnerships for moving all children toward high academic standards. At the heart of this booklet are *questions* that schools & communities can use to figure out "where we are today" in relation to "where we want to be," and "how we're going to get there. These questions are organized around elements that are essential for comprehensive, standards-based school improvement.
You can get the booklet by calling 1-800-USA-LEARN. You can get much more, however, if you go to the Web version of this booklet.
The Web version of "An Invitation to Your Community" offers links to more than 40 documents, sites, and collections of information. These links take you to academic standards and documents about standards, the National Education Goals Panel report and the Panel's "Tool Kit", national research centers on student assessment and adult literacy, promising programs and Blue Ribbon Schools, "Prisoners of Time" and "Special Strategies for Educating Disadvantaged Children," and information on family involvement, school-to-work, Goals 2000, the Improving America's Schools Act, technology, and more.
The URL is:
We have redesigned the "Other Educational Resources" area of the INet World Wide Web Server. The new version offers for the first time a complete list of known ED-supported public access Internet sites. It also includes representative samples of Internet resources in several categories:
There is a live hypertext link to each site mentioned.
The URL is:
The ED/OERI Gopher Server is continuously updated with new press releases, grant announcements, publication summaries, and statistical datasets. New material on GOALS 2000, School-to-Work, Parental Involvement, and ESEA Schoolwides is also added frequently. To quickly find new items on the Gopher, follow the path:
What's New in This Gopher/
What's New (Format: nn=#days back or mm/dd/yy=since date)
and enter a search string in one of the formats indicated. The Gopher will quickly build you a menu of items added or changed during that time.
A chronological list of significant additions to the ED/OERI World Wide Web Server is accessible near the top of the home page.
The U.S. Department of Education maintains several types of Internet servers and tries to make all its holdings accessible to the public through as many as possible of the channels commonly used by educators.
E-Mail users can get our catalog and instructions for using our Mail server by sending e-mail to:
Please note that:
If you have any suggestions or questions about the contents of the WWW, Gopher, FTP, and Mail servers, please use one of the following addresses:
Telephone: (202) 219-1547
Fax: (202) 219-1817
Snail Mail:
INet Project Manager
U.S. Department of Education
Office of Educational Research and Improvement
National Library of Education
555 New Jersey Ave., N.W., Room 214
Washington, D.C. 20208-5725
A web site for students and teachers of psychology. There is already lots of useful stuff here for college level psychology majors. Of course there is also info for non-psychologists or those with passing interest in the subject. Loads of links to Internet resources are included here along with search engines, and "top of the web" type jump gates. Now tell me about your net dreams... hmmm... very interesting. Tell me about your dreams...
A great place to look for educational links and other educational sources of information. Includes educational references and much more. This site is expanding and the folks here really do respond to the educational community and the ideas and/or suggestions you may have.
Announcing a new Web site dedicated solely to educational and library products and services. Education Showcase provides a single place for you to find products, vendors, and services for schools and libraries. Software producers, publishers, library systems companies, suppliers, and professional organizations all display their products and services through Education Showcase. You can easily browse through the list of products and services or zero in on your needs using the indexes.
This listserv discussion (email messages full of info automatically sent) is focused in Educational Technology and is very well done and a highly informative source of information. To sign up follow these directions:
An Internet site for answering educationally related questions (which is quite a broad and expansive topical base). It is designed for teachers, librarians, students and administrators although the wealth of information is available to the general public also. Every educator should have this address memorized. Use liberally and often. One of the most well respected sites for educational materials on the Internet.
A mailing list providing a global network for K-12 students and teachers that focuses on technological issues and international communications.
A complete classroom edition of CNN online. Look under Education for the CNN Newsroom Classroom Guide. This is global learning ala Internet!
A virtual gold mine of information that is often overlooked. You can use this to perform comprehensive searches through hundreds (thousands?) of magazines published in the US. Search by author, subject, title or keyword to find the resources or articles you're looking for. Your search results are then printed to screen and include a small abstract of the source article and information in regards to the publication it is in. Invaluable!
When they say 'complete" they really mean it! This site has got to be one of the best general reference sites on the Internet. Contains such things as the Periodic Table of Elements, Webster's Dictionary, Roget's Thesaurus, US telephone area codes, Zip Code directories, Amtrak train schedules, US State Dept. Travel advisories and the list goes on and on... You will be amazed at all the "goodies" in here. One-stop "info-shopping" at its best. Every educator, student and internaut should have this address memorized!
Please read the following instructions and documentation on EDGAR
Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR)
The Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR), which the Department has traditionally provided to its discretionary and formula grant recipients only in a printed edition. This is now also available electronically for online browsing and downloading. Composed of Parts 74-86 of Title 34 of the Code of Federal Regulations, EDGAR governs the administration of discretionary and formula grants awarded by the Dept.
Traditionally, EDGAR has been one of the Department's most popular publication with tens of thousands of copies being distributed across the nation to grant recipients and the public each year. While EDGAR continues to be available in print format, it is hoped that this new electronic version will improve service to the Department's customers by offering very rapid access to the regulatory texts for searching citations and printing locally with downloaded files. The online version is the same text as the printed edition with the cover date of January 1, 1995.
The different methods of accessing the electronic version of EDGAR are discussed below. Questions about interpreting the provisions of EDGAR or applying them to particular grant awards should be directed to the Dept. of Education grant staff member named in Block 3 of the Grant Award Notification. Readers are encouraged to redistribute this announcement on local area network in their agencies, institutions, and organizations.
EDGAR is located on the Department's Gopher server. The menu is set up to enable users to view and download each part of EDGAR separately or to download all parts of the publication as a compressed file. The Gopher server also offers software for inflating compressed files locally.
Readers can access the electronic version of EDGAR by pointing their Gopher client software to:
and selecting:
4. U.S. Department of Education Programs-General Information/
from the main menu and then selecting:
7. Grant-Related Information - Publications and Notices/
from the sub-menu.
The material on the ED Gopher server is also available via File Transfer Protocol at:
(NOTE: The Department does not offer public access Gopher or WWW clients. You cannot access the server through Telnet sessions with the Department's site. Readers will need either an appropriate Gopher or WWW client (e.g., NCSA Mosaic or Lynx) at their sites or must be able to Telnet to a public access client elsewhere.)
Comments, suggestions, or questions about the Department's Gopher server can be sent to the following e-mail address:
In addition, the compressed file of EDGAR is available for downloading on the ED Board BBS. Software for inflating the compressed file locally is available for downloading as well. ED Board is online 24 hours a day (except during system maintenance) and has four 14,400 bps modems with settings of 8 data bit, 1 stop bit, no parity (8-1-N). The bulletin board phone number is (202) 260-9950. To offer comments or suggestions on ED Board or to receive technical assistance contact George Wagner or Terri Wood at this voice phone number --> (202) 708-6775.
(NOTE: There is *indirect* INTERNET access to ED Board via the FedWorld BBS. Connect to FedWorld in one of the following ways:
and follow the selections from the instructions given on the Main Menu for connecting to the Federal Gateway. Once in the Gateway, select the listing for ED Board. FedWorld will connect to ED Board via modem. The help desk number at FedWorld is (703) 487-4608.)
submitted by Gregory Vick --- U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC
The ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education (ERIC/ChESS) is pleased to announce its new WWW Site. The WWW Site highlights the services of ERIC/ChESS and offers links to valuable Internet resources for social studies education. ERIC/ChESS will continue to develop its site to serve the social studies education community with easy access to world-wide internet resources of value to social studies education. Webmasters and web page writers, please create a link at your site directing viewers to the ERIC/ChESS home page. Any comments and/or suggestions are always welcome!
Internet Public Library advances new initiative through innovative delivery of online youth services.
The formal opening of the youth services division of the Internet Public Library (IPL), a prototype library of the future, at the School of Information and Library Studies of the University of Michigan was recently announced. Central to accomplishing the library's stated mission of providing "services and information which enhance the value of the Internet to its ever expanding and varied community of users," the IPL youth services division will help point the way to the library of tomorrow, harnessing rapidly changing technology to reinvent library service delivery for a 21st century audience.
The IPL youth services division has already made impressive strides toward realizing its ambitious goals with projects and activities that include a writing contest (for children only); an opportunity to communicate with noted children's book authors; an interactive story hour; and opportunities to discover and contribute to a budding list of science projects and experiments. In what must surely be one of the IPL's most innovative ventures, children and contribute to a budding list of science projects and experiments. In what must surely be one of the IPL's most innovative ventures, children and adults alike will be able to submit questions online to such world famous writers as Lois Lowry and Robert Cormier...imagine what it might have been like if our generation had the chance to talk to Dr. Seuss! Best of all, the IPL youth division has been able to develop their online service while maintaining all the excitement and energy young people have come to expect of a visit to the best local libraries. Talking mascots, living folk tales, and endless opportunities for the creative spirit...all these await you at the IPL youth division.
Ready for patrons on March 17, 1995, the Internet Public Library is prepared to provide essential library services to a target audience estimated to number 1/4 of the entire American population by the end of the century. Chaired by an assemblage of internationally renowned librarians and leading information industry professionals, the Internet Public Library will offer an exciting vision of the library of tomorrow as envisioned by many of the brightest talents in the field today. Bringing the best features of the community library forward into a new technological environment, IPL seeks to challenge our thinking about new "communities" that will arise in the future and a broader range of services the library of tomorrow might provide.
OK - so this explanation might seem a bit lengthy but this is a BRAND NEW venture and a full explanation was necessary. An incredible resource that 'netters all over the world will find useful, educational and informative!
A wonderfully complete library online. Everything from classics to short- stories and beyond. The HistoryPhilosophy section is great for research work and it contains an abundance of works from the movers and shakers in the course of world history. This site will leave you in awe of the power of the Internet for this library really is worth the ftp trip.
A very complete collection of images of National Flags of world's countries and also includes flags pertaining to many other topics such as images of flags used for racing, signaling and semifore flags. If you need to find out about a flag or what a particular flag looks like - then here they are!
I wasn't sure which category or chapter to place this one in as it contains a plethora of topics and links. This site was founded by former U.S. Pres. Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn Carter and it is a shining star of both breadth of topics and freedom of content. This site is truly a bonanza of information, educational resources and more. There are reports from field reps in many countries of the world including perennial human-rights violators such as Ghana, Burma and Zambia. There are links to efforts and ongoing reports from the Human Rights Program, the Conflict Resolution Program, The American Project, Global 2000 Learning and All Kids Count. There are other numerous links to projects concerned with poverty, hunger, disease and political, social and religious opression and persecution. This is an unbelievably well-stocked sight of hard-hitting and relevant info. You would be hard pressed to find a better single resource than this site.
This is a well stocked library and has complete texts of many works in many differing areas. Poetry, prose, e-zines and reference works are all here. Sections on multimedia info, weather, cooking and recipes, and a searchable reference section make it a great place to begin your reading or research. Burrow on over to here with your gopher client and you won't be let down.
Scott was a private in the US Civil War (36th Infantry, Company A, Iowa Volunteers) and he served for 3 years during 1862 - 1865. In this time he wrote many letters to his sweetheart and neighbor back home in Iowa. Her name was Hannah Cone and she was the recipient of this wonderful collection of letters that has been preserved and now is available to the public via the WWW. You can choose a year from 1862 - 1865 and then you will see a short summary of each letter and if you click on the letter you wish to read in full - the entire text of that letter will appear and can then be read. This site is a wonderfully good resource for you can see and read a piece of history and you really almost start to feel like "you are there" being transported back into time. This site is also note- worthy in that it has many links to other Civil War related sites and Civil War resources and materials on the Internet.
One of the best gopher sites imaginable - there is absolutely too much to list here. Tons of subdirectories that contain a wealth of information. Everything from works of literature of software. A great gopher site that you can get lost in for hours - not through a poorly designed site format - but by the sheer size of it and the informative and interesting things it has in here. Grab a BIG shovel - you'll be burrowing for hours !
A huge resource listing of Internet resources available to educators and scholastic agencies and academic institutions. A wonderful resource list that contains an abundance of pointers and links that every educator should be aware of. This is an excellent site for teachers, administrators and educational researchers. Well laid out site and very well organized topics.
This is a source guide that contains descriptions and pointers to various educationally oriented electronic journals. Most of these journals deal with emerging educational technologies and technology research that also includes technology within the educational framework or learning structure.
A daily publication that has news concerning educationally oriented sites on the Internet. Can be subscribed to and received via email or can always be accessed and read within the Educom web page.
A comprehensive and large collection of links, pointers, bibliographies and related technical information for the educational and Instructional Technology community. IT professionals will find this quite useful.
An educational journal/periodical that is available online to the public.
This is the online electronic version of the popular guide that includes a section on post-graduate educational information.
A textual collection of education related information. The bulk of info at this site relates to government documentation and higher-learning docs.
A great place to start your learning and knowledge on a variety of topics.