Carnegie-Vincent Library

This is a highly useful site if you are looking for international comparative education data for developing countries. You can, for instance, easily call up and compare the literacy rates in one country with another.

This website for a program of the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences National Center for Education Statistics contains two helpful sections: international indicators and international surveys and assessments.

Another good site for international comparative education data.

This 3-volume country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries. This updated and expanded edition gives users up-to-date coverage of reorganized educational systems and high-interest topics such as technological advances.

Australia

Official site for Australia’s Department of Education.

Covers grading systems, higher education, technical and vocational education, teacher education, and school education.

Brazil

China

Official site for China’s Ministry of Education (MOE). The menu on the left has details on: Laws and regulations, planning and statistics, basic education, higher education, vocational education, international cooperation, and a list of Chinese higher education institutions.

Denmark

Cirius is a Danish agency “supporting internationalization of education and training in Denmark.” This link has a good overview of various aspects of the Danish education system with some nice charts and more detailed information. Click on “English” in the upper right for page translation.

Official Ministry of Education fact sheets. Includes: The education system, finances, basic school, youth education, higher education, and more.

France

Lenghty PDF document from the Ministere Education Nationale giving a good overview of the system and detailing education expenditure, personnel, length of schooling, priority education and more.

The Ministere site itself is only in French, so this may be the best document on French education in English you can find.

This site deals mostly with higher education institutions in France. There is some mention of teacher education and qualifications as well.

Germany

Hong Kong

India

Official Indian DOE Annual Report. Menu links to PDF sections on Administration, Policy, Elementary Education and more.

Gives basic overview of Indian Education System. Sections on: Administration and Funding, Primary and Secondary Education, Colleges and Universities, Education and Society,

Source: James Heitzman and Robert L. Worden, editors. India: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1995.

Israel

Japan

More detailed report of various aspects of the Japanese Education system: Statistics, curriculum, facilities, etc.

Official goverment site on education in Japan. Discusses elementary and secondary education, higher education, lifelong learning policy, and more.

Jordan

Good brief overview and discussion of the development of Jordan’s education system.

Note on the Source: This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Army.

Brief overview of Jordan’s education system from the official government site.

Pacific Islands

PADDLE facilitates the sharing of best practice and experience amongst the fifteen Pacific countries of the Project. The focus of PADDLE is to provide access to all relevant education policy, planning and development material from the participating countries. Most of these documents have previously been unavailable in digital form.

Russia

Discusses Russian education since the fall of the Soviet Union. Seems to have been published in the 1990s, so more current information may be needed to supplement this discussion.

Source:

Gives good brief overview of Russian education system, includes: Structure of education system, admissions to higher education, student life, and international cooperation and exchanges.

South Africa

United Kingdom

This document provides a nice succinct overview of the UK’s primary, secondary, and higher education levels. Also covers assessment, academic year, and a narrative of a typical day in a UK school.

More on the UK education system at this site sponsored by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. Gives structure of the education system, public examinations and qualifications, and also some historical background on the UK’s education system.

Text of the seminal 1983 report A Nation at Risk.

Page of links from the U.S. Department of Education about Goals 2000.

Hyperlinked table of contents to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

This is a quick assessment of your opinions on a number of issues related to the philosophy of education. It indicates which philosophies you may have an affinity for and suggests a number of theorists to explore. Schools of thought include: Essentialism, Behaviorism, Progressivism, Existentialism, Perennialism, and Reconstructionism.

Constructivism

This is a concise, well-written exposition of constructivism beginning with an explanation of the concept and moving toward practical applications in the classroom. Includes critical perspectives. Be sure to check out the “Expert Interview” section for a video interview with educational theorist Jaqueline Grennon Brooks.

Existentialism

Idealism

Multiple Intelligences

Pragmatism

Realism

Bloom's Taxonomy

Marzano

http://www.dianelauer.com/techinteg/simdif.html

http://classroom.leanderisd.org/webs/marzano/identifying_similarities_and_differences.htm

http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/1simdiff.htm

http://readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=54

http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic24c.htm

http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/2summarize.htm

http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/summarizing_notetaking.htm

http://www.dianelauer.com/techinteg/sumnote.html

http://www.arc.sbc.edu/notes.html

http://www.schools.manatee.k12.fl.us/3160MARZANO/3160marzano/summarize___note_taking.html

http://www.allkindsofminds.org/activity.aspx?id=12

http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/3effortandrecognition.htm

http://web2thatworks.com/index.php?title=Reinforcing_Effort_and_Providing_Recognition

http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Templates/effort_recognition.htm

http://www.ntuaft.com/Departments/Research___Communication/PRC504/Research-Based%20Instructional%20Strategies/Reinforcing%20and%20Feedback.htm

http://www.nwrel.org/request/oct00/index.html

http://spearfish.k12.sd.us/west/Specials/Penny/Teacher%20Involve/overview.htm

http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/4homework.htm

http://www.ed.gov/pubs/HelpingStudents/index.html

http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/skill_builder.htm

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/activities.html

http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/visualization/design_principles.html

http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/teacher_resources/inspiration_templates/index.html

http://education.denniskunkel.com/index.php

http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Templates/nonlinguisticrepresentations.htm

http://www.dianelauer.com/techinteg/nonling.html

http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/5nonlinguistic.htm

http://www.co-operation.org/pages/overviewpaper.html

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/coopcollab/index.html

http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/6cooperativelearning.htm

http://www.worksheetlibrary.com/teachingtips/cooperativelearningtips.html

http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4653

http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/7objectivesandfeedback.htm

http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/index.php

http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/objectives_feedback.htm

http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr200.htm

http://www.nps.k12.nj.us/Special%20Education/Training%20Modules/Research-Based%20Instructional%20Strategies/Setting%20Objectives%20&%20Providing%20Feedback.htm

http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/8hypotheses.htm

http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/hypotheses.htm

http://classroom.leanderisd.org/webs/marzano/generating_and_testing_hypotheses.htm

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/inquiry/index.html

http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/9advorganizers.htm

http://www.netnet.org/instructors/design/goalsobjectives/advance.htm

http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/templates/advanceorganizers.htm

http://www.oir.uiuc.edu/Did/docs/QUESTION/quest1.htm

http://www.uab.edu/uasomume/cdm/questioning.htm

http://www.sedl.org/secac/rsn/quest.pdf

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/graphorg/

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/

http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/graphic_organizers.php

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/graphicorganizers/

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2983

http://www.edhelper.com/teachers/graphic_organizers.htm

http://www.somers.k12.ny.us/intranet/skills/thinkmaps.html

http://www.graphicorganizers.com/downloads.htm

http://www.writesite.org/html/organize.html

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html

This is a highly useful site if you are looking for international comparative education data for developing countries. You can, for instance, easily call up and compare the literacy rates in one country with another.

Another good site for international comparative education data.

If you’re a visual learner and like to sketch out connections between ideas this may be useful to you. Cmap allows you to create and easily modify concept maps and share and snych with others users.

Download here

“Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.”

Download here

This is another free mind/concept mapping program.

Download here

Zotero is free citation management software program. It is a Mozilla Firefox browser extension. This means you have have and use the Firefox browser (also a free download if you don’t have it on your home computer; it is installed on the computers in the LMU labs).

What this means is when you find an article, book, website, or whatever that you want to use as a source for a paper, class project, or whatever, you just have to click a little icon on the browser and the item will be added to Zotero. From Zotero, you can create folders, tag, sort, and create instant bibliographies of selected sources.

Download here and watch the how to use video.