The Ed Trust helps state and local leaders build broad-based vehicles to mount and sustain K-16 reform. The Ed Trust focuses on the institutions most often left behind in plans to improve education — those serving concentrations of low-income, Latino, African American or Native American students.
The Faculty Room is a space for faculty and administrators at post-secondary institutions to learn about how to create classroom environments and activities that maximize the learning of all students, including those with disabilities.
The Foreign Language Department at Virginia Commonwealth University has developed a treasure chest of valuable information for teaching strategies. Focusing on LD, the site contains many categorized articles useful to teachers in any classroom.
The IRIS Center is a national center that aims to provide high-quality resources for college and university faculty and professional development providers about students with disabilities.
Learning Page provides a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more can be found on the site.
The Legal Center is an independent public interest non-profit specializing in civil rights and discrimination issues. We protect the human, civil and legal rights of people with mental and physical disabilities, people with HIV, and older people throughout Colorado.
Created by members of Monmouth University, this list of practical tools and resources will help K-12 teachers put the Internet to good use in their classrooms. The list provides tools, forms, templates, checklists, and interactive activities that will help to create Web sites, lessons, puzzles, rubrics, projects, games and more.
Time To Read is AOL Time Warner’s nationwide volunteer literacy program. Started in 1985 to address the crisis of low levels of literacy among American children and adults, the program now operates at more than 400 locations across the country, involving more than 29,000 tutors and learners. Program locations range from schools and adult-education centers to prisons, libraries, churches, community centers, clinics and homeless shelters.
The mission of the U. S. Department of Education is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans. The Department WebSite includes information on funding, research, publications, and programs.