Have you ever been conducting research and wanted to use statistical information ?  Well if you have this site is for you.  The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) collects and analyzes data that pertains to education in the United States.  NCES puts out about 100 publications a year.  Many people and organizations use statistics from this agency.  So for those of us that want to add validity to our papers, this site is perfect.  I like this site because it helps to keep me informed on some of the trends in education and how we fare in comparison to the rest of the country. 
 

This web site gives people of all different backgrounds and careers a look into what the government has in store for the schools of today and tomorrow.  In particular, teachers get to see what kind of issues they might deal with in a classroom and methods of dealing with those issues.  For instance, there is a section to the Department of Education called the Partnership for Family Involvement in Education.  This will help a teacher understand what to tell a parent of a child if that parent needs to focus more on their child’s education. 
 

This is a good site for teachers to learn about how to make dramatic improvements in the achievements of all students.  This will be helpful because this web site gives statistics of the school districts.  It gives good insight to what it is like to teach in these inner city schools. 
 

This website encourages America's schools to help increase the involvement of parents.  It gives ideas of programs to start within a community.  It is very beneficial for teachers and parents of their students. 
 

This site is generated by 30 government agencies that are at work to make federally supported educational resources available on the web.  This is in response to President Clinton's proposal to integrate technology into all schools and to making the accessible to the the world of resources through the internet. This site includes a search engine as well as a list of  ten subject areas available for research.  These subject areas link you to many of the federal supported resources that are available to the educational community, but are not necessarily well known to all teachers.  Best of all, since these are federally support programs and resources, they are free to use! For the teacher, FREE becomes a valuable resource into programs of educational value that are available to everyone in this country.  This site makes them more accessible.  Also through this site, your classroom can become more socially aware of issues that affect the educational community. 
 

This is probably the most interesting site that I have found.  World Wise Schools(WWS) is an effort by the Peace Corps to make educational resources of different countries available to the teacher.  This site offers educational resources such as lesson plans that involve children of many different cultures, links to educational resources of other countries, and information about many countries themselves. Given the global educational resources afforded by the internet, teachers can now reach out and find information on the lives and cultures of many people.  This information can be used in the classroom when studying social and cultural structures and problems of other countries.