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Home base to find materials, lessson plans, and information about fact checking for educators.

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This site is one of the fastest ways to find information about the exploitive practices of 4000 businesses worldwide, which would be difficult to locate by other means. Users can begin searching by company name, issue, country, or topic.

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The Heritage Foundation is the nation’s most broadly supported public policy research institute. Full of Conservative Policy Research and Analysis

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The institute provides access to primary documents dealing with American history through a searchable database. The institute also provides an extensive section for teachers and students.

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Britain in Print: pre-1700 British printed books have been made available online, through partner library's online catalogues. In addition, three online learning resources were created and are available free of charge via the Learning Zone section of this website.

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Since 1946, the United Nations (UN) has produced an annual work known as the Yearbook. This volume serves as the principal reference work on the United Nations and their various activities. Recently, the UN digitized the Yearbooks from 1946 to 2005 and placed them on this very handy website.
Visitors to the homepage can use the drop down menu offered here to look through any of the volumes that interest them. Within each volume, visitors can read through chapters, which usually include sections on political and security matters, economic and social questions, and a host of legal questions. For those persons looking for specific topics, each volume can be searched individually.

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The Intute Astronomy Gateway provides free access to high quality resources on the Internet. Each resource has been evaluated and categorised by subject specialists based at UK universities.

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The Mission of The Fund for Peace is to prevent war & alleviate the conditions that cause war. To this end, the Fund for Peace produces materials such as the Failed States Index and coverage of foreign policy.

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CLN's primary focus is to help K-12 teachers integrate information technology into their classrooms.

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The Commitment to Development Index (CDI) rates 22 rich countries on how much they help poor countries build prosperity, good government, and security. Each rich country gets scores in seven policy areas, which are averaged for an overall score.

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The main goal of the Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) is to improve the effectiveness of the aid provided to the crisis-affected populations. The HRI is based on rankings in 5 separate 'pillars', each in their turn driven by a large number of indicators.

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The Pew Research Center has done some interesting surveys regarding views of evolution from different religious perspective

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The Dirksen Center promotes understanding of Congress through CongressLink and its Editorial Cartoon Collection (sixty editorial cartoons and eighteen lesson plans based on editorial cartoons). The Dirksen Center also hosts a half-dozen webquests designed for middle school and high school use.

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The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development, and increase conflict management capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide.

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Foreign Policy Research Institute with its Part I: 1622–1919: A History Institute for Teachers

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Providing accessible information on Intelligent Design

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Discovery Institute is a nonpartisan public policy think tank conducting research on technology, science and culture, economics and foreign affairs.

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