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Children, Family and EducationEBSCO Animals - through the POWER Library, Health/Science
Middle Search Plus - through the POWER Library, Children's Resources
Facts for Learning - through the POWER Library
Primary Search - through the POWER Library, Children's Resources
Homework Center - Multnomah County Library
Searchasaurus - through the POWER Library, Children's Resources
SIRS Discoverer - through the POWER Library, General Reference
Action without Borders - Volunteer Opportunities Worldwide
PA Advocates for Nutrition & Activity - Links to Keystone Health Zones, PA Growth Screening Program & more health, nutrition & activities for parents & families
EatRightPA - PA Dietic Association links to PA Growth Screening Program Information & other nutrition information
PA School Health Program - Information on PA's School Health Program & Resources for parents
ReferWeb - Chester County Dept. of Human Services- Info & Referral Service
Chronicle of Higher Education -Weekly news and job-information source for college and university faculty members, administrators, and students. Articles from the Chronicle of Higher Education are only available to subscribers
Jon's Home School Resource Page - includes home school handbooks, curriculum and support sources
College Board Online - Guides you through practicing for, scheduling, and taking the SAT I and II, PSAT/NMSQT, CLEP, and AP tests. Includes planning for college, including choosing, getting accepted, and obtaining financial aid. Also has data and research on college pricing, student aid, standard tests, living expenses, and other issues.
CollegeSurfing Find the School that's Right for You- allows visitors to research, find, and request information from more than 900 educational institutions and 3,500 campuses offering thousands of degree and certificate programs
Mapping Your Future - A site "for students and parents with information on financial strategies, career options, and college planning." Also available in Spanish. Searchable
COOL - College Opportunities On-line Search for U.S. colleges by name, location, type of institution, and programs/majors. Provides information about expenses, financial aid, enrollment, admission, athletics, and more.
National Center for Education Statistics - NCES collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the US and other nations. Includes annual reports on: The Condition of Education, The Digest of Education Statistics, Indicators of School Crime and Safety and Projections of Education Statistics. Searchable
Department of Education - This site includes FAFSA, Funding your Education and Student PIN requests.
Pennsylvania Dept. of Education - Includes information on the department, teaching in the state, education reform initiatives, libraries, teacher certification, school profiles, home pages for schools and colleges and how to obtain a GED.
Pennsylvania Homeschoolers - Offers legal information, calendar of upcoming events and listing of support group, markets homeschooling resources, publishes quarterly magazine, message board
Educator's Reference Desk - provides high-quality resources and services to the education community, includes 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses across a wide variety of educational topics
Pennsylvania PTA -provide a central informational source for parents, educators and school officials on an array of issues facing Pennsylvania schools
ERIC through the POWER Library, Education -“a digital library of education-related resources, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education. The collection consists primarily of electronic bibliographic records describing journal and non-journal literature selected by ERIC from 1966 - 2003." Also provides "more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents “.
Peterson's Guide to Schools -information about colleges and universities, career schools, graduate programs, distance learning, executive training, private secondary schools, summer opportunities, study abroad, financial aid, test preparation, and career exploration
FAFSA - Federal Student Aid -Federal Student Aid : Determine eligibility, find the federal school codes, fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) online and electronically submit it, and check on the status of a submitted application. Includes deadlines for applying and instructions for making corrections to an application
PHEAA - Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, a full-service financial aid organization developing innovative ways to ease the financial burdens of students and borrowers
FastWeb - Financial aid search through the Web - Search a database of hundreds of thousands of U.S. scholarships, fellowships, internships, grants, and loans. Free registration allows you to set up a profile and mailbox that will automatically send you the latest scholarship information to fit your profile
PNC Bank Education Loan Center - helping students and their families find federal student loans, private loans and or financial aid information
FinAid - Smart student guide to financial aid -Advice on and links to sources of information about student financial aid. Covers topics such as loans, scholarships, military aid, federal and state aid, fellowships, grants, prepaid tuition plans, study abroad, financial aid consultants, and scholarship search services.
Scholarstuff - "More Stuff for scholars than anywhere else on the Net." - this site includes information about SAT, GRE and financial aid sites, also find Internet education resources - higher-education - special-education - physical-education - grants - bilingual - nursing -college – university etc.
A Guide to Pennsylvania's post secondary career schools - A guide to career education in Pennsylvania. “Career schools are postsecondary, occupationally oriented, education institutions.” Searchable by school name, county or career.
School Profiles from PA Department of Education -Includes all schools in PA
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