School Guidance Counseling Sites

The Annie E. Casey Foundation  for Children

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private charitable organization dedicated to helping build better futures for disadvantaged children in the U.S.  The AECF sponsors and supports the annual Kids Count census of the status of American Children.  Their site is a forum for issues affecting our most vulnerable children.  http://www.aecf.org

Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL) is an electronic guide to information on adolescent issues. It is a service of the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University. Educators, counselors, parents, researchers, health practitioners, and teens can use ADOL to find Web resources for these topics: conflict and violence, mental health, health risks for teens, and links to counselor resources. http://education.educ.indiana.edu/cas/adol/adol.html

The Alliance for Youth led by General Colin Powell, is dedicated to mobilizing individuals, groups and organizations from every part of American life, to build and strengthen the character and competence of our youth.  http://www.americaspromise.org

A link from the ASCA homepage, allows the reader to search resources suggested by school counselors.  http://www.schoolcounselor.org/

This site features information and on-line registration for the SAT, SAT II, and the College Scholarship Service Financial Aid Profile®, a free on-line College Search, and an in-depth look at the testing services, workshops and other resources just for school counselors. The College Board Online Internet site is maintained by the College Entrance Examination Board (the "College Board") and the Educational Testing Service ("ETS") as a service to the Internet Community. http://www.collegeboard.com/

Martha Wiseman, school counselor at Carl Sandburg HS in Cook Co., IL created this resource page that contains a number of links not found together elsewhere.  The site includes career planning information, college and scholarship links, study skills, and a collection of resources for college bound athletes.  http://www3.dist214.k12.il.us/guidance/index.html

This site, the organization's home page contains news and information about special education and gifted education, events, training and job links for educators. http://www.cec.sped.org

CounselorNet is a World Wide Web site at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh which indexes materials useful for counselors in schools, agencies, and colleges. The site also provides a good list of list serves for counselors, e-mail mentors for beginning counselors and counseling students, and counseling resources on the Web Including several sites for counseling theories. http://www.plattsburgh.edu/projects/cnet/

This web site, maintained by the American Council on Education, Washington, DC, contains information about the General Educational Development tests for high school graduation equivalency, including score scales, statistics, and FAQ. http://www.acenet.edu/calec/ged/home.html

The National Parent Teacher Organization sponsors a number of programs of interest to parents and educators, including Education, Arts, Health and Safety, Leadership and Awards Programs.  This site provides the links. http://www.pta.org/programs/index.htm

Parent Resources

This site, a service of the American Medical Association, deals with issues that affect the physical, emotional, and sexual health of teens, addressing such issues as depression, substance abuse, violence, STDs, and contraception.  The site also links to AMA sites of more general interest. http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/1947.html

This site includes not only the popular "Helping Your Child..." series for parents (some available in Spanish) but also other booklets and articles available on line on topics ranging from reading to the Internet to financial aid for college. Published by the US Dept of Education. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/

A site with information of general interest to parents and students, including homework help, health, and disability "channels". (© Copyright 1998 All information provided here is proprietary to the Family Education Network.) http://familyeducation.com/home/

A US Dept. of Education document which provides solid assistance based on research to guide parents of elementary and junior high school-aged children when deciding how to help children with homework.  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Homework/title.html

A source for in-depth and timely education and health care information, this site contains resources for school personnel and parents on issues affecting children's health from infancy through the teens. It includes information on new products, product recalls, childhood diseases, recreation, and teen issues. (KidSource OnLine is a registered trademark of Kidsource OnLine, Inc.) http://www.kidsource.com/

An extensive resource listing compiled by the National Parent Teacher Organization which will be of definite interest to parents and educators because of the wide range of child-centered resources available here.  http://www.pta.org/links/OrgLinks.htm

Another site of general interest to parents and students, this one features parent chats, surveys, activities, and articles about issues affecting children and families. (Parent Soup® is a trademark of iVillages, Inc. Copyright 1996.) http://www.parentsoup.com/

Education and Technology

Written and produced by Andy Carvin, DigitalDivideNetwork,  the purpose of this hyperbook is to explore the worlds of educational reform and information technology. With EdWeb, you can hunt down on-line educational resources around the world, learn about trends in education policy and information infrastructure development, examine success stories of computers in the classroom, and much, much more. EdWeb is a dynamic work-in-progress, and numerous changes and additions occur on a regular basis. http://www.edwebproject.org/

(FREE) makes hundreds of Internet-based education resources supported by agencies across the U.S.  Federal government easier to find. Search the resources by keyword, or see them listed by subject, or, for an overview of what's here, use the site map. http://www.ed.gov/free/

This general education resource, published by Kathleen Schrock, MLS, Technology Coordinator, Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District, is a comprehensive site with researched links to numerous education/educational web sites, Internet resources, and PowerPoint® presentations on using technology. http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

A comprehensive listing of museums (along with Web links) of interest to students and their families and a listing of the on-line museum and learning resources whose collections can be accessed at home or school via the Internet.  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/Museum/resource.html

This site offers an interactive educational resource exchange where educators can post and obtain learning materials. Also an educator chat, links to education jobs, and other resources. http://www.pedagonet.com/

This site, sponsored by National Cable Television Association and  Tech Corps , is a self-paced Internet Tutorial that puts both basic and in-depth information about the World Wide Web at your fingertips. E-mail, video conferencing, chat rooms, Web page design, Internet safety, curriculum searches - you choose the topic you, you choose your own pace, and webTeacher guides you through the information. Then, because webTeacher is an interactive guide, you get to put your new knowledge to work immediately through the online exercises and activities.  http://www.webteacher.org/winnet/indextc.html

College and Post-Secondary Information Sites

This site, home of the ACT assessment, allows students to register on-line for the ACT, to search for colleges, to apply to colleges on-line, and to estimate financial aid, all with the C3 Apply.  this site is also the home of the Work Keys Assessment System.  http://www.act.org

College Board Online

This site features information and on-line registration for the SAT, SAT II, and the College Scholarship Service Financial Aid Profile®, a free on-line College Search, and an in-depth look at the testing services, workshops and other resources just for school counselors. The College Board Online Internet site is maintained by the College Entrance Examination Board (the "College Board") and the Educational Testing Service ("ETS") as a service to the Internet community.  http://www.collegeboard.org/

is a commercial site with college searches, scholarship searches, on-line college applications, and information about programs and scholarships at NCAA schools for athletes. (© 1998, Universal Algorithms Inc.) http://www.collegenet.com/

This well known site brings together, at one central address, consistently organized information about educational opportunities at all levels, and gives individuals the ability to search Peterson's databases as well as to request more information, apply, and interact in other ways with faculty and administrators at educational institutions. LInks to private schools, camps, colleges, and universities. (Copyright © 1997 Peterson's Guides, Inc.) http://www.petersons.com/

is a FREE online scholarship search where students can set up a personalized profile matching their specific skills, abilities, and interests to FastWEB's database of over 375,000 scholarships, and get immediate results on-line. The site is a service of FastWEB.com, L.L.C. North Chicago, IL, http://fastweb.com/

This huge, comprehensive, and FREE site was created by Mark Kantrowitz, author of The Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students, and is sponsored by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA). It contains such helpful information as an Estimated Family Contribution (EFC) Estimator, CSS Profile Codes, and links to several free scholarship searches. It also provides information on college loans, payment plans, and financial aid for minority and special groups of students. http://www.finaid.org/

This commercial site provides students with information on important tests such as the SAT , LSAT, GMAT, and GRE, financial aid information, as well as a career center with job tips. (Copyright ©1998 by Kaplan Educational Centers)   http://www1.kaplan.com/

Besides information about admissions and financial aid, this site features an on-line college matchmaker for students, snapshot information on specific schools, and more. Check out the tester for accurate, full-length simulations of computerized exams like the GMAT and GRE or get practice for pencil-and-paper tests like the SAT. Do a customized college search. (Copyright© 2001 Princeton Review Publishing, L.L.C) http://www.review.com/

This official site not only provides the breaking news on the national education front, it also features searchable ERIC Digests, education statistics (NCES), Federal Student Financial Assistance, FAFSA on the Web, IDEA '97, and more. http://www.ed.gov/

College rankings by U.S. News magazine, articles, personalized college searches, online chats, financial aid, and career information.  http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/

 

This page is Copyrighted © by Lorrie L. Burhans, 1998-2002.
Last Update 01-29-2002