Education News

News about education, covering traditional and alternative education, as well as elementary, secondary, and higher education.

Resources in this category:

AFT News
http://www.aft.org/news/index.htm

News related to the American Federation of Teachers. "AFT was founded in 1916 to represent the economic, social and professional interests of classroom teachers."

BBC News: Education
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/default.stm

The BBC covers education news in the United Kingdom.

College Times
http://www.nytimes.com/college/

"A searchable database of recent NY Times articles organized into a directory of related academic fields. Allows signing up for e-mail notification whenever there are new articles pertinent to any field."

Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education
http://www.nebhe.org/connection.html

Official site for the quarterly journal, "Connection: The Journal of the New England Board of Higher Education," in publication since 1986. It contains PDFs of issues since summer, 1998. The journal offers, "expert analysis and hard-hitting commentaries on issues from faculty diversity to sustainable campus architecture." The index of articles allows for subject-based browsing.

Education News
http://www.topix.net/education

"Education News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net," by Topix.net. "Topix.net was founded in 2002 with the specific mission of providing users the ability to quickly and easily find targeted news on the Internet."

Education News.org
http://www.ednews.org/

"The mission of EducationNews.org is to become the most frequently used tool on the Internet for disseminating education news." A great, up-to-date resource for current issues regarding education.

Education Week
http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html

"The Web's authoritative source on K-12 education has been rebuilt to make it easier to tap into the wide range of resources, from the latest news to an extensive database of state indicators to the top jobs for educators." Site is the home for Education Week, Teacher Magazine, The Daily News, archived articles back to 1981, and state policy data. Site requires free registration for access.

Education – CNN
http://www.cnn.com/EDUCATION/

Recent articles on and related to Education from CNN.

Education – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/education/

Recent New York Times articles on and related to Education.

ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
http://www.eric.ed.gov/

This free database from the United States Department of Education indexes a variety of education-related articles. Some resources are available for free online while others must be obtained elsewhere. The site includes the ERIC Thesaurus.

eSchool News
http://www.eschoolnews.com/

"The online companion to the K-12 decision maker's technology & Internet newspaper."

National Institute for Literacy
http://www.nifl.gov/

Resources for educators, administrators and families to stay current with literacy research and programs. Discover effective ways to improve the literacy skills of children and adults.

Newsletters and Journals from ED
http://www.ed.gov/news/newsletters/index.html

Site provides access to numerous Newsletters and by the US Department of Education, including the following: The Achiever, Extra Credit, EDInfo, ED RSS, ED Review, Teacher Updates, The Education Innovator, OVAE Review, and Education Statistics Quarterly.

Rethinking Schools
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/

Rethinking Schools, a small nonprofit organization, "attempts to be both visionary and practical: visionary because we need to be inspired by each other's vision of schooling; practical because for too long, teachers and parents have been preached at by theoreticians, far-removed from classrooms, who are long on jargon and short on specific examples." This site provides access to the current issues, as well as archived articles, from the Rethinking Schools journal. Helpful features include an Article Index and Archive that is searchable. Other resources included on the site are Web Resources and RS publications for purchase.

Special Education News
http://www.specialednews.com/

Special education news for educators and families.

U.S. Department of Education: Press Room
http://www.ed.gov/news/landing.jhtml

The government agency's source for news and current issues.