Educational Web-Sites

Here are some web-sites dealing with education:

Hoaxes

http://www.snopes.com/

Academic classes

www.khanacademy.org/ 2700 free classes

academicearth.org: university lectures

Want to learn how to do something?  www.Howcast.com, www.WonderHowTo.com, www.eHow.com.

7 “Open Yale Courses” are posted for free access at www.open.yale.edu

Financial Literacy

www.youtube.com/MetLife: explains insurance
http://fpfenonprofit.org/: financial literacy

Life Expectancy:

Tables: www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_09.pdf

www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr53/nvsr53_06.pdf
http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html  CT=88

www.nmfn.com/tn/learnctr--lifeevents--longevity  CT=92

www.deathclock.com/  CT=73 and 10 months

http://channels.netscape.com/atplay/sergames.jsp?id=atplay_lifelinecalc

Career assessment

            www.oipartners.net/

            http://enrichcareers.com/

Self-improvement

www.alphapub.com

Pro-Education

www.successforall.net: grants for improving schools

www.allianceforschoolchoice.com

www.schoolachievement.org

www.democratsforeducationreform.org

www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/

www.gkccf.org/page22854.cfm for the GKCCF Blue Ribbon Task Force on Higher Education with Benno Schmidt and Kurt Schmoke plus other liberals

www.number1question.org/

Puzzles

www.sudoku.com/

www.websudoku.com/

www.miniclip.com/

www.khanacademy.com

International

www.epals.com/: links classrooms internationally

City Info

http://www.city-data.com/

Peer-Review process: http://www.senseaboutscience.org.uk/index.php/site/project/30/

Trivia

http://www.funtrivia.com/submitquiz.cfm?quiz=44121

http://www.washburn.edu/php/quest/online-game/index.php