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The Teacher's Guide to International Collaboration was developed to help teachers use the Internet to "reach out" globally. These materials were prepared as part of the Department of Education's International Education Initiative.

Find grants and contracts with links from the federal Department of Education

Grant links from the US Dept of Education

This is an incredibly helpful whitepaper fleshing out the roles and expectations districts should have for Technology Coordinators and Directors. It would be helpful for both employers as well as job-seekers. This paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of School Administrators/Pennsylvaina School Board Association (PASA-PSBA) School Leadership Conference, Hershey, PA October 25-28, 2005.

Doing What Works is a website dedicated to assisting teachers in the implementation of effective educational practices. The Doing What Works website contains practice guides developed by the Department's Institute of Education Sciences that evaluate research on the effectiveness of teaching practices described in the guides. The website also contains examples of possible ways this research may be used, but not necessarily the only ways to implement these teaching practices.

Site has links to resources every subject area in schools today, and many of the links have lesson plans, digital content, and other lesson adders.

Abraham Lincoln Papers presents Lincoln's draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, his second inaugural address, an 1864 memo expressing his expectation of being defeated for re-election, and more than 70,000 other images and transcriptions of letters, speeches, and writings from the 1850s through his presidency

a new national ed. tech. plan being developed now... to be released in 2010

Federal Department of Education Office of the Chief Financial Officer links to grant opportunities and information.

Create-A-Graph is a Web-based tool aimed at giving students an accessible way to learn graphing fundamentals. The tool is easy and flexible and allows them to learn important concepts using their own information.

Select the type of graph, enter your data, label the axes, click a button and you have a graph!

A collection of Web resources provided by the federal government for educational use. Divided by subject area.

A federal gov't portal for educators, admins, etc to find "research-based education practices"

Well it sure ain't SAS...

"Secretary Arne Duncan announced the draft National Educational Technology Plan on March 5 This plan describes how information and communication technologies can help transform American education. It lays out a set of concrete goals to inform state and local educational technology plans, as well as recommendations to inspire research, development, and innovation."

Sample standardized test questions database plus online practice.