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EDUCATION
U.S. Department of Education
This award-winning site is designed to help pursue the President's
initiatives, including No Child Left Behind, and advance our
mission as a Department—to ensure equal access to education
and to promote educational excellence for all Americans. It
also supports the work of ED offices, led by senior ED officials.
World Education
In the spring of 1996, the founders of Education World recognized
the need for a Web site that would make the Internet easier
for educators to use. They wanted to create a home for educators
on the Internet, a place where teachers could gather and share
ideas.
Education
Helping kids learn what they need to know to get through life
is a tough job. As parents and teachers, it's far too easy to
find reasons to doubt ourselves, and to wonder whether we're
doing things right. So to help you find the best for your kids,
and for the kids you teach, we've created an online community
filled with information, resources and support. Grown-ups don't
have all the answers, but we do have a place where it's easy
to find them.
RI Department of Education
The Rhode Island Network for Educational Technology, Inc. (RINET
), is a non-profit corporation operating since 1994 as a partnership
to support the collective technology needs of the K-12 educational
community.
LEARNING CENTER
Britannica Encylopedia
EncyclopediaBritannica.com where else on the web can you go
to find any information on anything in the world than an encyclopedia.
They hold the most knowledge in any volume of books.
Biography.com
Biography.com is a site that you can use to get the biography
of any famous person that has ever written.
Dictionary
Dictionary.com is a site that you can use to check words if
they are spelled wrong. You can even get their definition and
their origin of where the word originated from.
Spanish.com
Check out the best Spanish language resource store on the Internet.
We have hundreds of items to choose from. Each is sure to increase
your skill and help you work towards fluency. Many of the programs
for sale will get you all the way there! There is also a great
section with books for the children.
Algebra.com
Algebra.com helps you learn math. It can give you hints on math
problems and even teach you a thing or two about algebra. It
is free help with homework, so if your ever stumped on a problem
go to Algebra.com to get a hint to the answer.
Science.com
Science.com is a site that teaches you about the subject of
science. It is a site that branches off of Science Magazine
so why open a magazine when you can surf the web and find out
more science information at Science.com
History.com
To complement the library, Questia offers a range of search,
note-taking, and writing tools. These tools help students locate
the most relevant information on their topics quickly, quote
and cite correctly, and create properly formatted footnotes
and bibliographies automatically. Questia provides a comprehensive
research environment to meet students' academic needs.
Gospel.com
Since 1995, Gospelcom.net has been an Internet pioneer in providing
ministry resources to users around the world. We understand
the power and impact the Internet can have on your personal
and spiritual life. These benefits are at risk if people are
concerned about their personal privacy.
Art.com Conceived
in 1995, Art.com was built on the vision of childhood friends,
Joshua Chodniewicz and Michael Marston, who recognized the Internet
as the ideal way to make it easy for people to quickly find
and order exactly what they are looking for. Art.com also helps
you in the early stages of starting an art project in the help
section of the site.
Saints.com
Saints.com has everything that you are looking for from St.
Anthony to St. Matthew you will find out all the facts about
your favorite saint.
NEW YORK COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
Adelphi College
Founded on June 24, 1896, Adelphi University is the first institution
of higher education on Long Island, and its charter was one
of the earliest granted by the New York State Board of Regents
to a coeducational college. The University is in its second
century of practical preparation for undergraduates, graduate
students, and returning adult students in the arts, sciences,
humanities, business, education, nursing and health maintenance,
social welfare, and clinical psychology.
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College was a large institution from the day it opened
its doors in rented quarters in the borough's downtown business
area. Acquisition of a permanent site in the residential Midwood
section of Brooklyn provided a spacious campus; on October 2,
1935, Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia used a silver-plated shovel
to break ground for the new campus-twenty-six acres of broad
lawns bounded by handsome Georgian-styled buildings.
Queens College
Established in 1937 to offer a strong liberal arts education
to working-class people, Queens College has grown into a campus
of 16,604 including 12,012 undergraduates and 4,592 graduate
students. Of the undergraduate students, sixty-two percent attended
full-time and thirty-eight percent attended part-time. Of the
graduate students, Nine percent attended full-time and ninety-one
percent attended part-time.
Columbia University
Columbia University was founded in 1754 as King’s College by
royal charter of King George II of England. It is the oldest
institution of higher learning in the state of New York and
the fifth oldest in the United States.
Cornell University
In keeping with the founding vision of Ezra Cornell, our community
fosters personal discovery and growth, nurtures scholarship
and creativity across a broad range of common knowledge, and
engages men and women from every segment of society in this
quest. We pursue understanding beyond the limitations of existing
knowledge, ideology, and disciplinary structure. We affirm the
value to individuals and society of cultivation and enrichment
of the human mind and spirit.
Elmira College
We provide a personalized academic experience. Your average
class size hovers at about 16 students. Professors give out
their home phone numbers--always. But they also know you well
and advise you well. Plus you will never sit through a boring
class taught by a graduate student, like students do at big,
impersonal schools.
Hofstra
University The Hofstra's trace their heritage to
the Province of Friesland in The Netherlands. The name Hofstra
is from a district near the village of Grouw, which was called
the Hofland. An estate in this area called Hoflandstra-estate
was where an early ancestor of William Hofstra was born. The
prefix "hof" in the Frisian language means courtyard or farm
and the suffix "stra" means "from."
Ithaca College
Welcome to Ithaca, nestled in the heart of New York State's
beautiful Finger Lakes region. Located roughly halfway between
Manhattan and Toronto, this thriving, culturally diverse city
of 30,000 combines small-town warmth and charm with cosmopolitan
flair.
Manhattan College
Born in 1651 of a wealthy family in Reims and appointed a Canon
of the Reims Cathedral when he was only sixteen years old, John
Baptist de La Salle was ordained a priest in 1678. Soon thereafter
he was led by divine providence to assist a small band of unskilled
schoolteachers who were struggling to provide a free elementary
education in Reims for the children of artisans and the poor
who would otherwise be left to roam the streets.
New York University
Founded in 1831, New York University is one of the largest private
universities in the United States. The University, which includes
14 schools and colleges, occupies six major centers in Manhattan.
Niagara University
"A great place to be!" is the way one undergraduate describes
his experience at Niagara University (NU). And he isn't alone.
Our 2,500 undergraduates find that NU provides over 50 academic,
career-oriented and pre-professional programs housed within
the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business Administration,
College of Education and the Institute of College of Hospitality
& Tourism Managaement.
Siena College
Since its founding by Franciscan friars in 1937, Siena has enjoyed
a reputation as a community where care and concern for intellectual,
personal, social and spiritual growth is paramount. Siena seeks
to create an academic, social, and religious community. Franciscan
education’s hinges -- looking at all things in the light of
God, respecting the dignity of each individual, working to create
a better society -- are values that all are invited to integrate
into their own lives and the life of the College.
Syracuse University
Syracuse University has a 133-year track record of amazing accomplishments
and trend-setting firsts. These ongoing achievements celebrate
our heritage and inspire our vision to become the nation's leading
student-centered research university.
University at Albany
Established… in 1844 and designated a University Center of the
State University of New York in 1962, the University at Albany's
broad mission of excellence in undergraduate and graduate education,
research and public service engages 17,000 diverse students
in nine schools and colleges.
University at Buffalo
The University at Buffalo was founded in 1846 as a private medical
college and merged with the State University of New York system
in 1962. Today UB is New York State's premier public center
for graduate and professional education, as well as the state's
largest and most comprehensive public university. A member of
the prestigious Association of American Universities, the University
at Buffalo stands in the first rank among the nation's research-intensive
public universities.
Marymont College
You'll feel it the moment you step onto campus: A real sense
of family. You won't be just another face in the crowd. This
is a place where everyone - including the President - will know
your name. Personal attention is a hallmark of Marymount College
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