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Colleges & Universities

Peterson's Education and Career Center - Includes College Search and Selection, Test Preparation, and Lifelong Learning

Scholarships & Financial Aid

FAFSA - "Free Application for Federal Student Aid" online.

fastWEB - "Recommended by over 16,000 guidance counselors and financial aid officers, FastWeb is the most trusted college resource on the Web.  And it's all free."

National Association for Student financial aid Administrators (FindAid) - "FinAid…has grown into the most comprehensive annotated collection of information about student financial aid on the web.  Access to FinAid is free for all users."

The College Board - "collegeboard.com brings together all the information and tools that students and parents need to plan for the transition from high school to college.  It is the only place where students can register for the SAT online and practice online with actual SAT test questions."

U.S Department of Education - "Our mission…is to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans.  This award-winning website…offers a range and an ever-growing collection of information about the Department including our initiatives and priorities, grant opportunities, offices, publications , and research and statistics.  Check out special collections of information for parents, teachers, and students."

Florida Department of Education - "provides access to grants, scholarships and loans."

Educational Research

Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) - World's largest source of education research with more than 1 million abstracts of documents & journal articles on education research and practice.

NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) - The tabulation provides more than 100,000 unique demographic characteristics per school district. The tabulation creates one of the largest, most current sources of children's demographics available from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Helpful Tools

Filamentality -  "a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into activities appropriate for learners.  So it helps you combine the Filaments of the Web with a learner's mentality (get it?)."