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Educational Atlas
A comprehensive guide to the best education sites on the Web. They're sorted by Education Index/Subject and lifestage, so you can find exactly what you're looking for quickly and easily. Whether you're a mother looking for the best home schooling resources for your children, a high school graduate researching colleges, a teacher in need of new lesson ideas for your pupils, or a career professional seeking continuing education opportunities, with over 8000 indexed websites.
National Association of Independent Schools
Searchable directory of private and independent schools worldwide that are members of NAIS.
Private School Review
Profiles of private elementary day schools & high schools across the U.S.
Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements
"What our kids should know and be able to do" provides the Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs) from the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Also provides additional information about Washington State's educational curriculum and instruction.
Washington State Schools
Links to public and private schools, and school districts.
Yahoo! K-12 School Directory
A directory of websites for schools in the U.S. and worldwide, both public and private.
American Homeschool Association (AHA)
Essays on the history and philosophy of the homeschool movement, plus links to book list sites, catalogs, and online support groups.
Eclectic Homeschool Online
Advice, homeschool news and curriculum from a Christian approach.
Home Based Instruction Regulations by the state of Washington
From the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, a source for homeschool laws and reports, including the "Pink Book" of Washington laws regulating home-based instruction.
Home Education Magazine
Up-to-date homeschooling information, news and views, a free information and resource guide, online newsletters, selections from Home Education Magazine, and more.
Home Schooling on a Shoestring
Ideas and resources to help homeschoolers save money.
Homefires
Homeschooler’s resource center for ready-made curriculum, advice, support and community.
Homeschool Potpourri
A Washington-based bookstore specializing in used and low-cost textbooks for the home educator.
Homeschool Resources
Numerous links to homeschooling information on the Web, from King County Library System.
Homeschool.com
Message boards, links to curriculum materials, a free e-mail newsletter and more.
Homeschooling from About.com
Homeschooling topics including teaching links, information on state homeschooling laws, children with special needs, and more.
Washington Home Educators Network
WHEN is for those who understand the Home-based Instruction law. Homeschooling is not a public school program. It is one of three educational choices, where parents are responsible for the education of their children - there are no teacher meetings, no approved education plans.
Washington Homeschool Organization
A statewide, non-profit membership organization with a mission to serve the diverse interests of home-based education in Washington State. WHO is nonpartisan, nonsectarian, and nondiscriminating in its views of homeschooling and participation in its activities
Washington Natural Learning Association
WNLA has a goal to build a stronger home-education community tby working state-wide to create better networking to make their lobbying and advocacy more effective. WNLA works to ensure the right to home-educate children without cumbersome regulation.
AceNet (American Council on Education) GED information
Information on where and how to earn a GED (General Educational Development) degree. Includes sample test questions, an FAQ about GED, and more.
Dave's ESL Café
Where Learning English is Fun! For ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World. (ESL = English as a Second Language ; EFL = English as a Foreign Language)
GED resources and information.
General Information about GED requirements in Washington state, preparation help, where and how to take the GED test, and more. From the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges.
Literacy Network of Washington
Literacy N.o.W. connects learners with teachers, promotes effective instruction, and provides tools and training.
PBS LiteracyLink
Pre-GED and GED test skills, plus WES (workplace essential skills). Sponsored by Public Broadcasting System and their focus on adult literacy.
BrainTrack
A directory of the world's universities and colleges. It indexes and contains information about universities, polytechnics, colleges and other higher educational institutions from over 190 countries. It includes online universities.
College Board Online
Info on their standardized tests, such as the SAT, and planning for college, as well as college searching, applications, and financing.
College Navigator
Free consumer information tool designed to help students, parents, high school counselors, and others get information about nearly 7,000 postsecondary institutions in the United States. It offers a wide range of information such as programs offered, retention and graduation rates, prices, aid available, degrees awarded, campus safety, and accreditation.
College Planning
The College Planning Web site is sponsored by Boeing Employees' Credit Union (BECU) and presented by College Planning Network (CPN), a Seattle-based, nonprofit organization, assisting people seeking educational opportunities, and serving the Pacific Northwest.
College View
College View offers hundreds of virtual tours, financial aid and scholarship information, college search with profiles of over 3,800 colleges and universities, college-related books and articles, "Ask the Experts" with professional guidance counselors, and searchable archives.
CollegeNET
Lets applicants complete, file, and pay for their admissions applications entirely through the Internet.
EdRef College Search Directory
Free detailed information on thousands of U.S. colleges, universities, and post-secondary trade schools. School info includes admission requirements, degrees & majors, contact info, religious affiliations, athletics, tuition expenses, and more.
Gradschools.com
An extensive listing of over 50,000 graduate programs in the U.S. and abroad, searchable by subject and location, or limit searches to specialized programs such as distance learning, McNair Scholars, or minority programs.
Graduate School at About.com
An Internet guide to getting into graduate school and surviving once you're there, with feature articles, Website guides, and discussion forums. Topics covered include financial aid, time management, standardized tests (LSAT, GRE, MCAT, GMAT, DAT) and major graduate disciplines.
Guide to Online Schools
An education directory that specializes in online degrees, online schools, and distance learning. Includes a school list, school reviews from former students, and info on careers, financial aid and accreditation.
Number2 - SAT, ACT, and GRE test prep courses
Number2.com website offers students access to comprehensive free online test preparation courses for the SAT, ACT, and GRE. It was originally founded in 1999 by professors and graduate students who wanted to make high quality test preparation universally accessible.
Online Education Database (OEDb)
OEDb currently contains reviews of 1,026 programs from 89 accredited online colleges. It only lists accredited online colleges. You can search and sort reviews by program, college, or degree level. The library section will educate you on the basics of online universities.
Petersons.com
Brings together consistently organized information about educational opportunities at all levels, and gives individuals the ability to search Peterson's databases as well as to request more information, apply, and interact in other ways with faculty and administrators at educational institutions. Includes private schools, camps, colleges, universities, and employers.
Princeton Review
Undergraduate, business, law, medical, and graduate program information, plus rankings, online applications, tips for higher test scores, and more.
Study Guide Zone
Study guides for many standardized tests, such as the ACT, SAT, GED, ASVAB, Praxis I and II, and more. Also includes study tips for general testing success.
Ten Rules for Choosing ONLINE Colleges and University
A list of ten things to consider about any * online * college or program.
Ten Rules for Selecting A College or University
A list of ten things to consider before selecting which college to attend..
U.S. Office of Postsecondary Education
Provides links to college and admissions information, and other higher education resources. This site also includes links to the FAFSA form and other related information via the QuickLink.
Washington State Colleges and Universities
The Washington Higher Education coordinating board oversees six public four-year colleges and universities, 34 public community and technical colleges, and more than 300 independent colleges, universities and career schools. The website contains links to information about all of them.
Washington State Community and Technical Colleges
This State Board is responsible for administering the Community and Technical College Act and providing leadership and coordination for the community and technical college system. This website has links to the programs at specific colleges, directions to the colleges, employment at the colleges, how to pay for college, and much more.
WashingtonMentor
An online resource to help students and their families select a college, apply for admission, and plan to finance higher education in Washington.
Xap.com
The parent site of WashingtonMentor, with nation-wide college, application, financial aid, and career information.
101 Top College, University and Scholarship Pages
A site maintained by the American Educational Guidance Center with a descriptive list of links to major sources of college and scholarship information. The main site has a selection for retrieving college admissions postal and e-mail addresses by state, plus a few links to other financial aid sites. Otherwise, much of the scholarship information on this site is available only by fee.
FAFSA
Free Application for Federal Student Aid - required for most post-secondary (college) scholarship applications.
fastWEB
Allows the user to set up a personalized profile that will match specific skills, abilities and interests to fastWEB's database of over 400,000 scholarships.
FinAid
A comprehensive annotated collection of information about student financial aid on the web.
Pacific Northwest Scholarship Guide
A personal, free, step-by-step tool maintained by the nonprofit College Planning Network, serving students of the Pacific Northwest.
Peterson's
An overview of ideas plus specific details and tools on how to pay for a college education. Includes a scholarship search tool called Scholarship Central, Federal and State Aid, College-Based Awards, Student Loan Center and Advice Center. (This is the same website that the WOIS database on the TRL Reference Database webpage uses for scholarship information and searching.)
ScholarshipHelp.org
Basic scholarship advice including an explanation of different types of scholarships, how to find and choose the right ones to apply for, and tips for writing essays and getting letters of recommendation. Also includes a directory of U.S. colleges and universities.
U S Dept of Education Financial Aid
Overview of financial aid available via the US government with links to features of the process.
 Washboard
TheWashBoard.org is a free web-based tool for Washington students seeking college scholarships. Unlike other search engines, theWashBoard.org only recommends scholarships
for which you are eligible. As a scholarship clearinghouse that is free of advertising and spam, theWashBoard.org protects your personal information. Available starting December 2009.
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