bigchalk.com Provides a broad spectrum of educational Internet services to teachers, students, parents, librarians and school administrators in the K-12 educational and public library markets.

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site  A collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.

Children's Literature Web Guide Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.

Clearinghouse on Reading, English, and Communication  Provides educational materials, services, and coursework to everyone interested in the language arts.

DiscoverySchool.com Provides innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable resources for students, and an entire store full of helpful learning products for parents to share with their children. The site is reviewed for educational relevance by practicing classroom teachers in elementary school, middle school, and high school. Includes: Lessons Plans and Quiz Center, located under Teaching Tools.

edHelper.com Currently 9547 Lesson Plans, 1078 WebQuests, 633 File Downloads, 6767 Additional Educational Sites, 120 Free Worksheet Generators, Educational News Updated Daily!

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. Effective October 1, more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free.

Educators's Desk Reference

EDUCAUSE Transforming Education Through Information Technologies

Electronic Education Journals

ENC Onine - K-12 Math and Science Teacher Center Provides an excellent selection of math and science education resources. Supports teachers' professional development in math, science, and the effective use of technology. Serves all K-12 educators, parents, and students with free products and services.

ERIC Digests

Gateway to Educational Materials

Internet TESL Journal For teachers of English as a Second Language - Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links This is a monthly web journal, so make a bookmark.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning. Includes a series of web page evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels designed to allow students to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability.

Learning Page A web site designed to help teachers, students, and lifelong learners use the American Memory digital collections from the Library of Congress. The site provides guidance to finding and using items within these primary source collections.

McGraw-Hill Higher Education Knowledge Gateway For instructors planning to teach, or already teaching, a course online. Provides help in creating a course web site, delivering current events information through the Web, or placing a book on a CD-ROM, or creating an entire course online.

MERLOT A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.

National Science Teachers Association "to promote excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all".

Peterson's Home Page: Colleges, Career Information, Test Prep and more. "The most comprehensive and heavily traveled education resource on the web, brought to you by Peterson's--the nation's leading information services provider."

Quia - Quintessential Instructional Archive Free online directory of thousands of online games and quizzes in more than 40 subject areas Templates for creating twelve different types of online games, including flashcards, matching, concentration (memory), word search, hangman, challenge board, and rags to riches (a quiz-show style trivia game). Tools for creating online quizzes. Quiz administration and reporting tools.

Schools on the Web Texas Education Network (TENET) web site designed to provide useful, up-to-date resources for the education community, including teachers, administrators, parents and students.

State of Texas/Education  Links to a variety of links including the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC)

TeacherFocus  Free registration for forums, access to a calendar of public events, private events and birthday links, plus links to a variety of teacher resources.

TeachNet.org The World Wide Web site for IMPACT II-The Teachers Network, a national nonprofit organization that supports classroom teachers in the United States.

TENET Web   Texas Education Network site. Resources for the education community, including teachers, administrators, parents and students.

Texas Academic Skills Program (TASP) Includes registration and preparation information for the TASP test as well as practice tests.

Texas Assessment of Knowledge & Skills (TAKS) 

Texas Education Agency This site contains information about educational programs, curriculum, student assessment, released and online tests, accreditation, school finance, school laws and rules for the state of Texas. Includes Teacher's Tool Bag

Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (TEKS) 

TExES Preparation Manuals

TExES/ExCET Home Page

THEA Testing The THEA Test was approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, under Senate Bill 286, Texas Education Code, Section 51.3062: Texas Success Initiative, for use by Texas institutions of higher education as an assessment instrument to evaluate incoming students. It provides the diagnostic data required by this legislation; its content is the same as that of the former TASP Test.

The THEA Test is the only assessment developed specifically to evaluate the readiness of students for college-level coursework in Texas. It was developed through a rigorous review and approval process supported by skilled and experienced Texas educators. All THEA Test questions have been reviewed by committees of Texas educators to ensure content accuracy and to prevent potential bias.

Timeless Classics: Books for Young Readers A National Endowment for the Humanities compilation of tried-and-true titles published in 1960 or earlier.

U.S. Department of Education Includes: Topics to Z area for browsing the site's contents. A search function is included for entering specific queries.

UT TeleCampus  Hundreds of links to services -- from admissions offices to online bookstores.

World Lecture Hall University of Texas web site that provides links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language.

World Wide Learn  Online courses, online learning and online education for adult learners worldwide. Includes a link to over 200 free online courses offered by Freeskills.com.