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Adventures in Education |
Sponsored by Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation, Adventures in Education covers financial aid resources with links to educational institutions, financial institutions, scholarships information, government agencies, standardized tests/admissions, and other resources. The site’s guided tour feature can help you locate quickly information important to you. |
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American Universities |
Extensive information about colleges including applications |
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American School Directory: The Internet Home for All K-12 Schools |
A MUST visit site; contains information on over 106,000 k-12 schools, can get information about individual schools and even directions, can click on school homepages, contains links to all state departments of public instruction, professional associations, etc; Tools for Educators includes, for example, a certificate maker, parent teacher conference sign up and confirmation forms, daily, weekly or general homework assignment forms, etc. Information for parents and students also. |
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ASVAB Career Exploration Program |
Site contains technical and descriptive information about the program and was created for counselors and researchers. |
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Career Magazine |
Contains information on job openings, resume bank, career forum, etc. |
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Career Path |
This site provides a free search of help wanted ads from across the country (searchable by job title). |
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CollegeNet |
CollegeNet provides searches for national two-year and four-year schools with links to many schools’ home pages for more information. You can apply online for some schools. CollegeNET features MACH25 scholarship search and provides links to additional education and financial aid information. |
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Education Free Forum |
The most valuable part of this web site is the College Money Finder, a free web service that scans database of 180,000 scholarships and puts search results in a personal mailbox; on-line registration/profile which allows search by a student’s specific skills, abilities and interests; sections on local and federal aid as well as help and frequently asked questions; limited sections for students, parents, teachers, and administrators; free downloadable software. |
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Education World: The Educator’s Resource on the Web |
Another MUST visit; contains a searchable database of over 50,000 web sites; education news from USA Today, and sections on Lesson Planning, Curriculum, Books in Education, Training, Financial Planning for Educators, Administrators, and lots more. |
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FinAid: The Financial Information Page |
This site is sponsored by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. It has an extensive variety of available sections. Students and parents can link to five databases, which can be searched without cost. Links to many other sites classified by general categories are also provided. |
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The Financial Aid Information Page is a comprehensive clearinghouse on financial aid sponsored by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA). Established by Mark Kantrowitz in the fall of 1994 as a service to students and universities, it has been reviewed by over 50 publications and has won numerous awards. The Financial Aid Information Page not only provides links to on-line scholarship databases (such as fastWEB and CollegeNET) but to plenty of other financial aid resources as well, ranging from scam alerts to financial aid for older (over age 30) students. Look here also for more than a dozen financial aid calculators. |
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GoTRAIN: The Online Guide to Vocational Training Schools |
A listing of career training opportunities of one year or less. |
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Military Career Guide Online |
This site gives details of 152 enlisted and officer occupations and their civilian equivalents. It also contains information on training, advancement, and educational opportunities in the services. Students can search the site either by the kind of work desired or by 20 broad categories. |
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Scholarstuff |
Links to information of schools, tests, job search tools and a financial page with 15 additional loan sites and three scholarship search engines. |
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Testprep |
Provides a free SAT experience to diagnose weak areas, review lessons, etc. |
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The Main Quad |
This site was designed for college students. Links to financial aid, textbooks, jobs, etc. |
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The Princeton Review |
The Princeton Review’s Web site allows you to search its databases for colleges, business schools, law schools, and medical schools and then link to the schools’ home pages. It provides a variety of information on admissions, testing, and financial aid and describes courses, software, and books. Princeton Review experts moderate seven discussion groups such as college Admission and the SAT Discussion Group, the Graduate School and GRE Discussion Group, and Multi-State Bar Exam Discussion Group. |
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US Department of Education On the WWW: |
A wealth of information. It is also possible to subscribe to a free, weekly update called EDInfo by sending an e-mail message to listproc@inet.ed.gov – say in the body of the message Subscribe EDInfo and your name [ex. Subscribe edinfo john doe]. |
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We Apply |
Extensive information about colleges including applications |