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National Sites
American School Directory The American School Directory is the Internet guide to all 108,000 K-12 schools, providing information, communication and payment tools for teachers, students, parents, local communities and families planning a move. American School Directory (ASD) is sponsored by Computers For Education, IBM, Innisbrook Wraps and Vanderbilt University, and endorsed by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. ASD contains over 2,500,000 pages of useful content.
AOL@School offers schools an easy gateway to the Internet. It consists of six portals, four for students, one for teachers, and one for administrators. All are available no matter what Internet service provider is used, and will also be available from home.
Electric Schoolhouse provides homework help, free templates and online support to help you create a place on the Web for your school or class. Electric Schoolhouse states that it "considers the needs of all three audiences: parents, teachers, and students."
Northwest Parent Connection Their mission statement is simple and direct: "Since 1979--providing parents with reliable information to make good decisions." This Web site contains useful information for parents about schools.
Education Northwest Chartered in the Pacific Northwest in 1966 as Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, Education Northwest now conducts more than 200 projects annually, working with schools, districts, and communities across the country on comprehensive, research-based solutions to the challenges they face. They primarily serves the Northwest region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. Education Northwest is part of a national network of 10 educational laboratories.
nschool provides Web-based education system providing a level of communication between schools, students, teachers, administration and families. NO commercialism on this site.
Rethinking Schools This site is so good, I put a shortcut on my desktop and visit it frequently. Rethinking Schools began as a local effort to address problems such as basal readers, standardized testing, and textbook-dominated curriculum. Since its founding in 1986, it has grown into a nationally prominent publisher of educational materials, with subscribers in all 50 states, all 10 Canadian provinces, and many other countries.
University of Minnesota Web66 The University of Minnesota Web66 project, designed to facilitate the introduction of the internet technology into K12 schools, keeps tracks of school Web servers throughout the world. You can obtain a list of Oregon schools Web sites at Web66.
Oregon Web Sites
Oregon Home Education Network (OHEN) OHEN is an inclusive, statewide, nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of all of Oregon's homeschooling families. OHEN provides homeschoolers with information about local, state, and national homeschooling activities and resources, as well as opportunities to network with other homeschoolers. Celebrating the diversity within our homeschooling community, OHEN welcomes any person without regard to educational philosophy, religion, creed, race, color, sex or ethnic or national origin.
Oregon Public Education Network, in partnership with the Oregon Association of Education Service Districts, delivers Web-based resources for teaching and learning to the desktop. They have pages for parents, teachers, and administrators.
Oregon School Boards Association OSBA represents more than 1,400 locally elected school board members charged with shaping the education programs for the more than 569,000 kindergarten through 12th grade students in Oregon.
Oregon Educational Organizations OSBA has a page (with explanation of each organization) of links to numerous Oregon education organizations.
Tutoring/Learning Centers
Sylvan Learning Centers was founded in 1979 to provide personalized instructional services to students of all ages and skill levels. They have five learning centers in the Portland area.
Kumon Math and Reading Centers offer after-school supplemental education program. From pre-school to high school. Kumon has eight centers in the Portland area.
Japanese Abacus Math School Called anzan, which translates roughly as "mental calculation," the technique springs from an age when the easiest way to work with large numbers was to use an abacus, a manual calculator introduced to Japan in the 1500s. Classes are located on 9303 S.W. Hill Street Tigard, Oregon.
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