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The National Association for Bilingual Education is the only national professional organization devoted to representing Bilingual Learners and Bilingual Education professionals.

CAL is a private, nonprofit organization working to improve communication through better understanding of language and culture.

The NCES is the government agency responsible for collection and analysis of data on education systems in the United States. This easy-to-use and well-organized Web site contains some handy presentations from "The Nation's Report Card," as well as analytical tools to help users of all kinds become better consumers of educational information. Elementary/secondary school data, as well as postsecondary school data, are provided at this site.

An informative site on the priorities of the Department of Education. Links to projects and education-related sites sponsored by the department can be accessed here. Access to Internet and computer-related educational projects is also available.

Gender Inn is a searchable database providing access to over 6000 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism, and gender studies focusing on English and American literature. All records are carefully indexed using a feminist thesaurus. This very comprehensive site also includes links to other meta-sites and searchable Web databases on the subject.

An annotated online text on the world history of homosexuality, organized culturally and chronologically. The site, maintained by Paul Halsall, contains an annotated chapter by chapter discussion, along with links to other sites and online articles. Additionally, this excellent site includes an outstanding online bibliography.

A must see for those concerned with the protection of cultural diversity. This site provides information on the many faceted projects related to world culture conducted by UNESCO. It also includes a link to the Web site for the historic UNESCO "World Heritage" site.