MEL Education Section

[Peter Butts <pbutts@EDCEN.EHHS.CMICH.EDU>]

How can you be an expert in every area of the curriculum?

The Michigan Electronic Library's Education Section can help. In addition
to links to all the subject-specific professional organizations, and
content-specific links, we've begun collecting National Standard documents
under "Hot Topics in Education"
(http://mel.lib.mi.us/education/edu-hot.html)  --

National Standards

 * Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics.
   -- prepared by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
   (http://enc.org/online/NCTM/280dtoc1.html)

 * Expect Excellence: Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
   -- prepared by the National Council for the Social Studies.
   (http://www.ncss.org/online/standards/stitle.html)

 * Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning -- draft #5 of
   a joint American Association of School Librarians & Association for
   Educational Communications and Technology document.
   (http://www.ala.org/aasl/stndsdrft5.html)

 * National Science Education Standards -- full text of the document
   created by the National Research Council.
   (http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses/html/)

 * Standards for the English Language Arts -- joint National Council of
   Teachers of English & International Reading Association document.
   (summary only)
   (http://www.ncte.org/standards/profsum.html)

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Other New Sites added on November 25:


 * Aaron Shepard's Reader's Theater Page -- teaching tips and links
   to tons of scripts.
   (http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/)

 * The Children's Partnership -- great info on computers for parents.
   (http://www.childrenspartnership.org/)

 * Great Links for Preschoolers -- extensive links to activities, crafts,
   recipes, and stories for young children.
   (http://www.intex.net/~dlester/pam/preschoollinks.html)

 * Distance Learning Resource Network
   (http://www.fwl.org/edtech/dlrn.html)

 * Improving America's Schools -- a newsletter on issues in school reform
   from the US Dept. of Ed.
   (http://www.ed.gov/pubs/IASA/newsletters/schoolwide/)

 * Kids and Jobs -- resources for teens, parents, and teachers created
   by PBS in conjunction with "JOBS - A WAY OUT?"
   (http://www.pbs.org/jobs/)

 * Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
   (http://www.tesol.edu/)

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