For the whole chapter:
Equity Center
The Equity Center at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory offers regularly updated information, links to other equity sites, and a special site dealing with equity in technology.
National Coalition for Equity in Education
This is an organization of educators at all grade levels who are working to create gender, racial, and social equity in education.
Desegregation
Brown v. Board of Education Tutorial
A short tutorial relating the concerns of Thomas Jefferson to the Supreme Court's ruling against racially segregated schools in Brown v. Board of Education.
Desegregation
The weekly online publication Education Week has compiled this "hot topic" summary of information and resources related to school desegregation.
Equity Assistance Centers
This site provides links to 10 equity assistance centers (formerly known as Desegregation Assistance Centers) funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Rethinking Schools
The Fall 2001 issue of this publication contains a special report examining recent trends in school desegregation.
Compensatory Education
Compensatory Education Programs and Title I
This office of the U.S. Department of Education administers and funds Title I and other compensatory education programs.
Head Start
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services maintains the Head Start web site. You can search for specific Head Start programs, learn more about Early Head Start, or link to resources and publications.
Title I
For more information on Title I, link to the
Technology@Schoolfeature in this chapter.
Multicultural Education
Bilingual Education Resources on the Internet
This is a short list of helpful links from the University of Texas College of Education.
Center for Multilingual Multicultural Research
You can find research and links to many Internet resources on a variety of multicultural education topics at the web site for this center.
Multicultural Pavilion
This award-winning site from the University of Virginia offers a variety of ideas for multicultural lessons and activities and includes a reading list.
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
The web site for this clearinghouse, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, contains links to a wealth of Internet resources and lesson plans.
Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs
This office of the U.S. Department of Education offers funding and technical assistance for bilingual education projects.
Pathways to School Improvement
The "Pathways to Improvement" multimedia article series from the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory looks at several topics related to this chapter, including Meeting the Diverse Needs of Young Children, Addressing Literacy Needs in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms, and Educating Teachers for Diversity.
Rethinking Schools
Much of the Fall 2000 issue of Rethinking Schools is devoted to multicultural education.
Teacher Talk
This issue of Teacher Talk from the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University has advice for secondary teachers on diversity issues.
Walk a Mile in My Shoes
The Walk a Mile in My Shoes multicultural curriculum at Troy City School 14 offers this list of multicultural education resources.
Education for Students with Disabilities
Consortium on Inclusive Schooling Practices
This consortium includes several universities and the National Association of State Boards of Education, as well as a program officer from the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs. Its mission is to improve the abilities of state and local districts to teach students with disabilities.
Council for Exceptional Children
You can check out professional development opportunities, research and more at the web site of this professional organization. As mentioned in your textbook, the publication Bright Futures for Exceptional Learners, which analyzes problems in special education, is available at the site.
ERIC Clearinghouse on Disabilities and Gifted Education
This portion of ERIC will give you information about working with children who have special needs of all kinds.
IDEA text
Download the text of IDEA from the Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
Inclusion
The weekly online publication Education Week has compiled this "hot topic" summary of information and resources on inclusion.
Inclusive Education
The University of Northern Iowa maintains this site to help general education teachers, special education teachers, parents and others learn more about inclusion of students with disabilities.
LD Online
This is a comprehensive site about learning disabilities of all kinds. It includes a newsletter, artwork of the week, first-person stories from students about their learning challenges, and more.
Library in the Sky
The Library in the Sky is a huge collection of Internet links maintained by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. This link leads to the special education section of the Library.
National Center for Learning Disabilities
This organization is "committed to improving the lives of those affected by learning disabilities." The Tips for Parents, Teachers and Adults in the Resources section is a good place to start looking for teaching ideas.
National Center to Improve Practice
The full name of this organization is the National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Through Technology and, as the name implies, the web site profiles many ways technology can help in special education.
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Programs
This office of the U.S. Department of Education funds research and programs in special education. The web site offers information on the activities of the office as well as links to other helpful resources, including the Federal Resource Center for Special Education.
Special Education Resources on the Internet
This is a collection of links to special education sites of all kinds. Topics include legal and inclusion resources, learning disabilities, medicine and health, behavior disorders, and gifted and talented.
