Resource Websites
General Resources
- Encinitas Educational Foundation
- All Kinds of Minds:
All Kinds of Minds undertakes applied research, product development, program
design, and professional training to foster the understanding and optimal care
of children with differences in learning.
- California PTA Online: California
PTA website.
- California
Reading List:
Find titles appropriate for your child's reading level based on their STAR testing
results from Spring, 2000.
- Child Safety on the Information
Highway
- Ed-Data Education
Data Partnership:
Fiscal, demographic, and performance data on California's K-12 schools.
- Family Education Network The
largest K-12 and parent network for children's learning.
- The Global Schoolhouse: Linking kids,
parents, and teachers around the world.
- GreatSchools.net: Features
School Profiles for all K-12 public schools in the state of California,
tools to help visitors search for and compare schools, and content designed
to help people understand and schools.
- Helping
Your Child Learn to Read: Tons of helpful information, suggestions,
and strategies from the U.S. Department of Education.
- Home2school:
Provides parents with information to help their children become top performers.
The two-minute parent tutorials, the checklists of learning objectives and
the personalized reading lists are invaluable.
- State-Level Resources:
Resources from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI).
- Students with Disabilities:
Tips for the college-bound student with disabilities.
- Parenting & Schooling:
Information about child development, parenting, and our state's schools.
Homework Help
- Big Chalk: K-to-12 students, and
parents, can get help from online tutorials, reference articles, and books
on almost any subject. Or they can procrastinate (educationally) by taking
virtual field trips to Colonial Williamsburg or the headwaters of the Amazon.
- Homework Spot:
Educational links organized by topic and grade, from K to 12. Click on "study
break" for mind-expanding games.
- Carnegie Library
Resource Links: When term-paper time comes, bookmark this collection
of research links, assembled by the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.
- Jiskha Homework Help:
Need to track down a quotation, a foreign capital, a synonym? Visit this site's
collection of links to reference works. Or learn pottery and drawing techniques.
- A+ Math: Help your child move
to the head of the class by creating flashcards or work sheets tailored
to her study needs. Click to check the answers.
- Helping
your child with homework:
How to help with homework, how much is enough, how to work with the teacher.
- Lightspan Study
Web: Homework Help
- BrainMania
- B.J.
Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
- Homework Hotline Online
- High School Hub
- GoMath.com Online Math Help
- Discovery
School's Webmath
- Your Science Fair
Project Resource Guide
- The History
Place Homework Help!
- The
Kindergarten Page: Highlights and Insights for Parents:
Tips from a former New York Kindergarten teacher
- Kids' Domain (for
parents too!):
Wonderful links to free software, graphics, contests, teaching your child to
program, links, etc.
- KidSource:
Timely education and healthcare information
- The Learning Network:
Announced June 29, 2000: AOL and Pearson's Learning Network will launch
an alliance. Big names under this AOL/Pearson umbrella: Classroom Connect,
Funbrain, Infoplease, Family Education Network, Dorling Kindersley, Financial
Times, Penguin Group, MySchoolOnline, SchoolCash, Copernicus
Education Gateway, Blackboard, Inc., eScore, CCC, Scott Foresman, and Globe
Fearon. This alliance is due to be launched in September, 2000.
- Lightspan.com:
A FREE education portal for educators, parents, and students, providing
resources, research tools, and grade-specific activities.
- Live and
Learn:
A resource for teachers and concerned parents
- National PTA Online:
Resources for the home-school connection, issues that affect children, information
about legislation, etc.
- Preparing
Your Child for Kindergarten
- PTA Web Sites
- Protect
Your Children
- San
Diego County Office of Education K-12 Education Resources:
Parent resources
- The
Special Interest Group:
Special education and disability resources in San Diego county. A cooperative
project by parents
of children with disabilities.
- Summer
Camp Guide:
Provided by the Union Tribune, this site includes a listing of camps for every
interest as well as
several articles on summer camps.
- Tek Mom:
High-Tek Parenting
- Totware
- Benjamin’s Favorites:
Shareware and freeware children’s software links, as well as links to visit with
your child.
- Web66:
List of Schools on the Internet:
Find homepages for schools around the country!
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