Six Criteria for Evaluating a Web Site

	NCES Annual Reports Program
	NCES Issue Briefs
	NCES: Quick Guide to Education Data Resources
	U.S. Department of Education
	California Department of Education
	Educator's Reference Desk

	GEM: Gateway to 21st Century Skills The Gateway to 21st Century Skills is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
	Calisphere Calisphere is a free public gateway to thousands of digitized primary sources (e.g., photographs, documents, newspaper clippings, works of art) from University of California museums and libraries and other cultural heritage institutions across California. The site emphasis is to serve California teachers and librarians. See the Calisphere For Teachers page for detailed information.

	Lesson Plans by Subject [Educator's Reference Desk] This collection contains more than 2000 unique lesson plans which were written and submitted by teachers from all over the United States and the world.
	Lesson Plans & Resources [Pollak Library Research Guide] Links to lesson plans from many sources and arranged by subject area.

The following web sites are freely available to the general public. Searching these web sites retrieves reports published by government agencies such as the U.S. Dept. of Education and the California Dept. of Education.

	U.S.: ERIC Documents: GPO Access ERIC Documents starting with October 2002 are available full text in PDF format from GPO Access.
	U.S.: U.S. Department of Education
	U.S.: NCES Electronic Catalog Browsable list of topics with links to full-text reports. Topics include Computers, Dropouts, Home Schooling, Limited English Proficient Students, Migrant Students, Minorities, Parental Involvement in Education, Salaries, Students At Risk, and more.
	California: California Department of Education - www.cde.ca.gov
	California: California Dept. of Education: Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources - http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/
	U.S. & California: Google Unclesam - www.google.com/unclesam Commercial search engine that retrieves .gov web pages.
	Electronic Journals in the Field of Education American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group (AERA SIG) has made available this list of "electronic journals that are scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text and accessible without cost."
	Accreditation Status of Colleges and Universities Postsecondary Educational Institutions and Programs Accredited by Accrediting Agencies and State Approval Agencies Recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education (January 2005) [U.S. Dept. of Education] The database lists approximately 6,900 postsecondary educational institutions and programs, each of which is accredited by an accrediting agency or state approval agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education as a “reliable authority as to the quality of postsecondary education” within the meaning of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA).