School Database and Education Portals

"This award-winning site is designed to help pursue the President's initiatives, including No Child Left Behind, and advance our mission as a Department—to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans. It also supports the work of ED offices, led by senior ED officials

We've redesigned this site to make finding information easier:

The search is improved. When you search, you'll see results that are more relevant.

Information is presented in multiple ways, including in five categories: grants and contracts, financial aid for students, education resources, research and statistics, and policy." ... more

"The Mission of the Education Commission of the States
The mission of the Education Commission of the States is to help states develop effective policy and practice for public education by providing data, research, analysis and leadership; and by facilitating collaboration, the exchange of ideas among the states and long-range strategic thinking.

ECS Vision
To be the leader and key resource in the process through which the states continually learn from one another as they work to improve teaching and learning for their citizens.

These statements have evolved over time, and were created during a time of transition for the organization." ... more

"Federal Student Aid, an office of the U.S. Department of Education, ensures that all eligible individuals can benefit from federally funded financial assistance for education beyond high school. We consistently champion the promise of postsecondary education to all Americans —and its value to our society.

Federal Student Aid plays a central and essential role in supporting postsecondary education by providing money for college to eligible students and families. We partner with postsecondary schools, financial institutions and others to deliver services that help students and families who are paying for college.

Today, Federal Student Aid performs a range of critical functions that include, among others:

•Educating students and families on the process of obtaining aid;
•Processing millions of student financial aid applications each year;
•Disbursing billions of dollars in aid funds to students through schools;
•Enforcing financial aid rules and regulations;
•Servicing millions of student loan accounts, and securing repayment from borrowers who have defaulted on their loans; and
•Operating information technology systems and tools that manage billions in student aid dollars.

This is a complex, multifaceted mission that calls on a range of staff skills and demands coordination by all levels of management." ... more

"Federal Student Aid, an office of the U.S. Department of Education, plays a central and essential role in America's postsecondary education community. Our core mission is to ensure that all eligible individuals benefit from federal financial assistance—grants, loans and work-study programs—for education beyond high school. The Federal Student Aid team is passionately committed to making education beyond high school more attainable for all Americans, regardless of socioeconomic status. By championing access to postsecondary education, we uphold its value as a force for greater inclusion in American society and for the continued vitality of America as a nation.

The programs we administer comprise the nation's largest source of student aid. Every year we provide more than $150 billion in new aid to nearly 14 million postsecondary students and their families. Among our most visible and essential services are the development, distribution, and processing of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSASM), the form used to apply for all federal, as well as for many state, regional and private student aid programs. Each year approximately 14 million FAFSAs are processed.

The aid from our programs allows students and their families to cover school expenses, including tuition and fees, room and board, books and supplies, and transportation. To receive federal student aid, a student must be enrolled in an eligible program at participating postsecondary institution, whether it be a two- or four-year public or private college or university, career school, or trade school." ... more

"ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.

The ERIC mission is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information that also meets the requirements of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002" ... more

"Education Planet's experienced educators, programmers and business professionals are committed to delivering powerful, easy to use web-based applications to K-12 teachers. Education Planet's K-12 resource portal (educationplanet.com) also provides teachers, students and parents with convenient access to quality, teacher approved educational resources.

Since the launch of the Education Planet portal in July 1999, Education Planet has become one of the leading K-12 educational resource portals on the Web. This year over 3.5 million teachers, students and parents will visit Education Planet's family of K-12 portals (Education Planet, Lesson Planet, Homework Planet). The Education Planet portal has received the coveted "Editor's Pick" award from AOLSearch, the "Editor's Choice" award from Netscape NetCenter, and the "Most Popular Sites" award from Yahoo. In addition, there are now over 100,000 Education Planet Members who receive Education Planet's weekly newsletter and other membership benefits..." more

"ClassReunionSearch.com is a National Directory of High School Alumni & Class Reunions. Keep in touch with High School Friends, Plan Class Reunions, and Post Class Reunion Announcements. Over 30,000 schools listed!

Free Registration gives you the following services: Register your name and contact information in your High School Class. Login anytime to update your contract information. View current and new registered class members. Access to class reunion announcements and class messages. Receive an email notice anytime your class posts a reunion announcement. Find friends in other schools." ... more

" Collegexpress Carnegie Communications is a company with a mission of service and a culture of relationships. The long-standing partnerships we have with our clients are based on our commitment to understand and keep on understanding the critical issues and day-to-day realities of higher education. You've known us for years as the publishers of Private Colleges and Universities magazine.

" For nearly a decade-and-a-half, the mission of Private Colleges & Universities magazine has been to provide college-bound students with helpful information about the college admissions process and independent colleges with an efficient, effective means of recruiting those students.

" Today, we also offer the full range of enrollment services under a single umbrella. Services we will deliver with energy and passion and vision. Not just today, but throughout our relationship." ... more

"Find the Business School That's Right for You
All Business Schools is a comprehensive online directory of accredited MBA programs and business career resources. We strive to be the finest resource available allowing prospective students to:
- Search for schools by location and degree
- Compare and research schools
- Request free information from schools
- Explore education options and career paths

Quick & Easy Search
All Business Schools provides a searchable database of schools, degrees, programs and career resources
All Business Schools is not a college or university. If you want to learn more about specific courses or programs, please contact the school or institution you are interested in through our "Request Information Form"

Find Degree & Education Resources
Our mission is to help you find the degree and education resources you need to realize your personal goals.
If you are a prospective student and would like to learn more about business careers and degrees please visit our "Business School Resource Center" ... more

"EDUNIVERSAL is the first tool offering a truly universal perspective on higher education.

By creating this unique service providing students, professionals, HR executives and academic officers with a global panorama of the best educational opportunities, EDUNIVERSAL gives you a chance to make the right choice for your future.

Today, EDUNIVERSAL starts with the Business Schools. But tomorrow, we will cover all fields of higher education.

EDUNIVERSAL allows students (and their parents!) to choose the best institution giving their career and their means, wherever they live, and wherever they'd wish to go." ... more

"Peterson's
To succeed on your lifelong educational journey, you will need accurate, dependable, and practical tools and resources. That is why Peterson’s is everywhere education happens. Because whenever and however you need education content delivered, you can rely on Peterson’s to provide the information, know-how, and guidance to help you reach your goals. It’s here—it’s all here.

With more than 40 years of experience behind us, Peterson’s is now poised to be the best education content provider in the United States. Here’s how we do it.

For parents
As a parent looking for expert and objective guidance, you can trust Peterson’s to offer convenient access to educational materials and resources. From the first day of kindergarten through high school graduation and beyond, you will want a single source of education content to help you maximize your child’s learning and opportunities for success. Whether your third grader wants help with an important science project or your high school junior could benefit from essay-writing tips, Peterson’s is the ultimate online destination for the education content your family needs.

For students
As a high school student searching for the “best” school, you can rely on us to help you find the “right” school by matching your needs with the institution that offers what’s important to you. We know it’s not just about academics and affordability, but also about finding the campus environment that will feel like home and foster your success.

For educators
As a high school educator, you can depend on Peterson’s personalized online resources to guide all aspects of your students’ college and career planning—everything needed to fulfill their highest potential.

As a college administrator, you can count on Peterson’s to be your marketing and recruitment partner. By delivering your message to a targeted audience through our specialized Web properties, we can connect the right students with your institution and enable you to reach your enrollment objectives." ... more

International and Comparative Education Magazine

"ICE Magazine is a collaborative publication, showcasing articles and comment from students of International and Comparative Education from around the world."

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"MISSION & THE DREAM THAT DRIVES US"
"As a true self-funded start up, Education-Portal.com began with one dream, one garage-based office and one mission: making education accessible to everyone, everywhere. With the help of a handful of talented contributors, Adrian and Ben worked relentlessly to turn this dream into a full-fledged company known today as Remilon, LLC

Education-Portal.com is now a true collaboration of the best minds in education, with more than 200 teachers, professors, librarians, journalists, editors and subject matter experts contributing to it on a daily basis. It continues to grow at a remarkable pace and now reaches over two million education seekers each month."

"What's In It For You"
"Education-Portal.com is committed to helping students gain access to a quality education.

To deliver on that promise, we've created the most comprehensive, free and independent education resource on the Web. We are recognized as a trusted source of information by libraries, high schools, colleges and universities around the world." ... more

At AllSchools.com,

"we provide information on prominent, accredited campus-based and online universities and degree programs."

"We feature fast-growing career fields, including business, art, computers, and nursing. Earn an associate degree, bachelor’s degree, or even a master’s degree or Ph.D., all through the colleges and universities in our directories."

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the Education.org network

"We connect professionals and students of all ages to campus and online degree programs in hundreds of subjects. With more than 100 web sites, you'll find the schools and information you need to succeed.

We work with the best schools around the world to offer free access to information on certificate, associate, bachelor, master and doctoral degrees in:
•Culinary Arts
•Nursing & Healthcare
•Art & Design
•Fashion
•Busines
•IT & Computer Systems
•Criminal Justice
•and more." ... more

Advancing Excellent Teaching in American Schools

"Annenberg Learner uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. It is part of The Annenberg Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.

Annenberg Learner's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Learner videos exemplify excellent teaching.

Annenberg Learner resources can be accessed for free at Learner.org, or can be purchased through the Web site
or by calling 1-800-LEARNER." ... more

Awesome Library

Awesome Library organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources,
including the top 5 percent in education.
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"College Directory Network was built to make finding the colleges, schools and other post-secondary educational opportunities that best fit your needs easier than ever to research and connect with.

College Directory Network currently features full profiles on 8,154 schools, with 12,950 campuses, offering 332,087 programs in 50 states, making it the largest database of post-secondary educational opportunities on the Internet.

What makes College Directory Network different?
We're Neutral: All post-secondary schools, school types and opportunities in the United States are included in the College Directory Network database, not just schools willing to pay to be advertisers

Why is this important to you? If you've already been searching around college research web sites you've probably noticed many of those web sites focus on providing search results for for-profit career schools, or only show a fraction of the local public schools in your search areas. The reason for this is the majority of college research web sites are not neutral and only show you colleges who are willing to pay them to be advertisers, which significantly limits the search results you'll see and could end up costing you thousands of dollars (or more) in extra college expenses.

Comprehensive Information: Every school in the College Directory Network database is researched by our team of college researchers before being added to the database; and all schools have detailed profiles to help you decide if you want to learn more directly from the school." ... more

"In 1996, the founders of EducationWorld recognized the need to create a home for educators on the Internet, a place where teachers could gather and share ideas. They wanted to create a complete online resource that educators could visit each day to find high-quality lesson plans and research materials.

The result is EducationWorld.com, a resource that includes:
• original content, including lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, and articles written by education experts;
• Web site reviews;
• special features and columns; and
• employment listings.

The EducationWorld team works hard to produce this FREE resource for educators. In order to keep the site free for all visitors, EducationWorld is funded by corporate sponsors and advertisers." ... more

"FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government.

More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.

FREE was conceived in 1997 by a federal working group in response to a memo from the President. The site was launched a year later. It was redesigned and relaunched for the first time in November 2006.

The 2006 redesign was made possible by many, including Jerry Alexandratos, Rob Barthle, Sally Budd, Rob Duckwall, Andrew Miller, Simone Miranda Olson, Cory Lebson, Jennifer Reeves, Chhavi Sharma, Keith Stubbs, Joe Wang, David Zwack, and teachers who reviewed the site.

FREE is among the most popular K-12 websites maintained by the U.S. Department of Education because of the many great resources being offered by contributing federal agencies." ... more

A global learning company
"Sixty million students in 120 countries depend on us for their education. The world's largest provider of pre-K-12 solutions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt collaborate with school districts, administrators, teachers, parents and students, providing interactive, results-driven learning. With origins dating back to 1832, the Company also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning literature for adults and young readers.

The Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Mission
HMH utilize an unique combination of cutting-edge research, editorial excellence and technological innovation to improve teaching and learning environments, solve complex literacy and education challenges, and spark a lifelong love of learning in every individual the HMH Education Group touch.

The Houghton Mifflin Harcourt mission embodies five core values—customer focus, employee focus, innovation, empowerment and collaboration—that drive every aspect of the business." ... more

"Since 1994, the Scout Project has focused on developing better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information and metadata

Located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison's campus, and part of the University's College of Letters and Sciences, Scout has access to highly educated content specialists and a world-class array of computer science and library resources. Our eclectic staff blends academics and professionals from Library Science and Computer Science, along with graduate and undergraduate students studying the sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Research That Delivers Results
The Scout Project research team creates and delivers practical Web-based information and software solutions for educators, librarians and researchers. Through stand-alone and collaborative projects we focus on joining concepts from both Library and Computer Science with the latest in internet technology to create tools and publication services that deliver.

Tools That Deliver Solutions
Our open source software tools are designed with academic and non-profit groups and users in mind. They are flexible, provide easy to use interfaces and can be set up with out a lot of technical expertise. Our turn-key portal software, for example, allows digital collection developers to share their unique online materials and collections with colleagues and students throughout the world."

"the LINGUIST List contains information on languages and language families, plus links to websites devoted to natural and constructed languages, to writing systems, and to language resources, e.g., dictionaries.

You can search a database of information on over 7000 unique languages, using over 47,000 language names and alternate names. This database keeps track of those languages which have become extinct (573 entries), or are in imminent danger of becoming extinct (440 entries). In addition, you can access a separate LINGUIST List database of information on ancient and extinct languages with ISO 639-3 codes to which LINGUIST has added languages with temporary codes, constructed languages, and language families.

You may also access the combined language search facilities.

In addition to the information on languages described above, we have links to numerous websites with language-related information:
• Dictionaries - 324 links to dictionaries of specific languages, multilingual dictionaries, acronym dictionaries, thesauri, and dictionaries of specialized terms, as well as dictionary projects (e.g. The Euro Wordnet Project).
• Natural Languages - Collection of links to more than 180 sites dealing with individual languages or language families. Also, approximately 20 language meta sites, e.g. the Rosetta Project.
• - MetaSites - Sites that list numerous language resources and function as directories.
• - Languages & Language Families - A listing of general sources of information of languages and links to further resources on language families.
• - Writing Systems - Resources on the various writing systems that different languages implement
• Constructed Languages - Links to sites devoted to artifical languages. See also a description of the constructed languages in our database
• Language Novelties - Novelties such as animal sounds and numbers in many different languages. (7 entries)"

"MERLOT is a free and open online community of resources designed primarily for faculty, staff and students of higher education from around the world to share their learning materials and pedagogy. MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, collection of peer reviewed higher education, online learning materials, catalogued by registered members and a set of faculty development support services.

MERLOT's strategic goal is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses.

MERLOT’s activities are based on the creative collaboration and support of its Individual Members, Institutional Partners, Corporate Partners and Editorial Boards.

Integral to MERLOT’s continuing development of faculty development support services are its:
• Building and sustaining online academic communities
• Online teaching and learning initiatives
• Building, organizing, reviewing, and developing applications of online teaching-learning materials

MERLOT maintains its currency through ongoing and continuing communication with its worldwide supporters in a variety of ways, including the annual MERLOT International Conference, the Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT), member publications, news, and our new Voices website to enable MERLOT users to communication with others."

Mission of SchoolAtlas.com
"SchoolAtlas.com is an education portal that combines all of the resources on the web into one great Academic Supersite. SchoolAtlas.com offers an academic search engine organized by educators, reference tools, a writing center, college information, free student and teacher portal tools, as well as web-based productivity tools (office suite and web-based storage). Our sole mission is to make the internet an academic endeavor."

History of SchoolAtlas.com
"SchoolAtlas.com was founded in 1998 by an educator in Columbus, Ohio. The goal of SchoolAtlas was to create a tool that would harness all of the resources available on the web into a manageable and organized system that met the needs of students and teachers. Over the last 11 years, SchoolAtlas.com has been working with partners to combine the advances of web-based software with the best education-based content."

Who started SchoolAtlas.com?
"Walter F. Balser, M.Ed. Founder
SchoolAtlas was founded by Walter Fernando Balser, an educator from St. Petersburg, Florida. Mr. Balser is a graduate of Columbia University's Principal's Academy, The Ohio State University (M.Ed.) and the University of Florida (B.A., History). Mr. Balser has been a full time administrator and teacher in New York City, Tampa Bay and central Ohio. He is also the founder of another education portal, FatClass.com."

"Horace Mann and nationally recognized teacher, Alan Haskvitz, developed this site of educational resources for teachers and students. It includes lesson plans to make reaching students and using technology easier.

The resources on this site include everything from complete lesson plans and teaching kits to primary source materials for student research. If you need help determining how to use them, try browsing through Alan's lesson plans for ideas."