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Education and Libraries

Best places to start

  • Department of Education
    This is the web portal for the United States Department of Education.
  • Library of Congress
    The Library of Congress web portal provides copyright information and also links to digitized historical collections of documents, audio recordings, photographs, art work, videos and audio.
  • Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
    The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction sets the standards for Wisconsin schools and public libraries.

United States sources

  • National Archives
    The National Archives web site provides a web portal to United States historical collections, online historical indexes, and online digitized historical information for the United States.
  • National Library of Education
    This is the federal government's main resource to education information including educational documents from ERIC.
  • Library of Congress
    This is the web site of the Library of Congress, which is the research arm for Congress and is responsible for preserving the cultural history of the United States.
  • National Center for Education Statistics
    The NCES web site provides statistics relating to education in the United States at all levels of the education system including statistics about individual school districts.
  • NCES Datalab
    The National Center for Education Statistics Datalab allows users to use existing data including raw data to create customized data sets and/or cross tabulations of variables.
  • Educational Resources Organizational Directory
    The Directory is intended to help you identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics.
  • College Navigator - NCES
    This site presented by the National Center for Education Statistics provides information about colleges and universities throughout the United states that would help prospective students in their selection process.
  • Condition of Education
    This site provides online access to the indicators, analyses and statistics relevant to the educational system of the United States taken from the print publication.
  • Digest of Education Statistics 1990 - current
    The site provides online access to this statistical publication which provides information about the education system in the United States.
  • Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
    This site provides online access to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance a comprehensive guide to grants and assistance available from the United States government.
  • Grants.gov
    This is the web portal for monetary assistance and grants available from the United States government.
  • Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
    This site is a web portal to government information for children.

Wisconsin sources

  • Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
    This is the web portal for the DPI which is the agency in Wisconsin that oversees k-12 education.
  • Badgerlink
    Badgerlink provides access to searchable online full text article databases which is accessible by all citizens of the state of Wisconsin. This service is provided by the Department of Public Instruction - Division for Libraries, Technology and Community Learning.
  • WISCAT
    WISCAT is a searchable online union catalog of materials held by participating libraries throughout Wisconsin.
  • WINSS
    This site, provided by the Wisconsin Superintendent of Schools, provides access to materials on Wisconsin school standards, assessment tools, and curriculum guides and information.
  • Wisconsin Reference and Loan Library
    The Wisconsin Reference and Loan Library oversees the Interlibrary Loan service and resource sharing for Wisconsin libraries, operates the Wisconsin Depository Library program, maintains WISCAT--the union catalog for Wisconsin libraries.
  • Wisconsin State Law Library
    The Wisconsin State Law Library provides free online access to some legal research and resources for the State of Wisconsin.
  • Wisconsin School Performance Report
    This is the state's annual public school report card or performance report.

International sources

 

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