KPI_Library Bookmarks's List: Scaling Early College / MCNC Jam Nov 2011

Mission is "to foster educational and social equity by empowering all people involved with schools to work collaboratively in reflective democratic communities that create and support powerful learning experiences for everyone."

From their home page, "Connecticut Voices for Children promotes the well-being of all Connecticut's young people and their families by advocating for strategic public investments and wise public policies."

Supported by an organization called ICS College Funding, the Weekly Scholarship Alert is an email service that delivers 5-10 scholarship ideas to your email in-box each week. According to their site, they present scholarships "for students in grade school to graduate school."

From a company called DemocraSoft, this is a free collaborative education platform, which appears to be much like a CMS.

The Common Core organization wants to improve education in America. To do so, they're "promoting programs, policies, and initiatives at the local, state, and federal levels that provide students with challenging, rigorous instruction in the full range of liberal arts and sciences."

Website of Jim Burke, a high school English teacher who has published widely on how to be an effective high school English teacher.

Site of Tamara Doehring, about and for secondary English teachers.

According to their About Us page, Scholarships. com has become "one of the most widely-used and trusted free college scholarship search and financial aid information resources on the Internet...."

This is the application for federal financial aid for post-secondary education.

Students can use this application and apply to as many participating schools (see list of Member Colleges and Universities) as they care to.

Published by Teachers College, Columbia University, this is the site for the Record, "a journal of research, analysis, and commentary in the field of education." Most (perhaps all) articles require a subscription for full access.

From the home page, the mission is "to identify and provide quality educational opportunities for educators, students, families, and communities in coastal Fairfield County, Connecticut."

This is a Diigo group that looks at Diigo as an educational tool, and also at larger issues pertaining to education and technology.

This site provides a streaming video library (RSVP), the Michigan Learns online portal, and other tools that support collaboration.

The CareerZone is "a proven, successful career exploration and planning system designed especially for students. " The site is powered by the Occupational Information Network (O*Net) database, from the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration.

ACT evolved from the American College Testing Program and the organization is now "an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides a broad array of assessment, research, information, and program management solutions in the areas of education and workforce development."

"The official source for college and career planning in California," supported by the California Education Roundtable, the California State Aid Commission, and ECMC (Educational Credit Management Corp).

Schmoker, a former school administrator, writes and works in the following areas: School and District Improvement, Assessment, Curriculum and Staff Development

This web page provides a list of National Parks with curriculum based educational programs; programs aligned with local, state or national standards of learning. Other links to related educational materials as well.

The NNER is a membership network for teacher preparation and to improve teaching and learning. The work is based on that of John Goodlad and the Institute for Educational Inquiry.