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Academic Search Premier
NYPL Library Card required for home access. Provides full text for 3,288 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

Boggle's World
Flash cards with cool graphics for elementary through middle school kids; for TEFL and ESL teachers.

Bronx on the Web: Education
Listing of educational resources in the Bronx.

Discovery School
Curriculum resources, homework helpers, and more from the Discovery Channel.

Educator's Reference Desk
Formerly AskERIC; lesson plans, resource guides, and the archive of questions answered by the AskERIC service between 1992-2003.

ERIC (EBSCO)
NYPL Library Card required for home access. U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database. Citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals. Notes: This database also contains full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information. EDRS (ERIC Document Reproduction Services) offers E*Subscribe users a link for EBSCOhost subscribers of ERIC. E*Subscribe offers unlimited access for approximately 92% of ERIC documents electronically in PDF format.

ERIC Document Reproduction Service
NYPL Library Card required for home access. From the U.S. Department of Education, ready access to documents in the education field.

Free Tutoring: In-Person and Online
Supplemental Educational Services (SES) provides extra academic help in reading, English language arts, and mathematics, free-of-charge to certain students outside the regular school day – before or after school, on weekends or online. Programs are offered in students’ own homes, schools, community centers and provider centers. Contact your school's Principal or Parent Coordinator to see if your child is eligible.

Gateway to Educational Materials
Lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources.

Getting Children Ready to Read
Free workshops at The New York Public Library for child care providers, teachers, and parents of young children with activities to support the development of reading readiness skills.

Grow Parent Website
The Grow Network transforms assessment results into instructional tools for teachers, principals, and parents.

GUYS READ
A literacy initiative to connect boys with books they will read. Presented by Jon Sciezska, author of the Time Warp trio series, The Stinky Cheese Man, Math Curse and more.

Insideschools.org
Independent guide to NYC public schools from Advocates for Children.

Learner.org
View Live educational broadcasts from the Annenberg/CPB Channel or view Video on Demand from a large selection of teacher oriented programs.

LearningExpressLibrary
NYPL Library Card required for home access. Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.

Library Literature
NYPL Library Card required for home access. Indexes periodicals and books, reports, pamphlets, and library school theses on all aspects of library and information science.

Library of Congress: Learning Page
A "teacher's eye view" of the online collections at the Library of Congress.

Manhattan on the Web: Education
Listing of educational resources in Manhattan.

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information
A national resource for professionals seeking information on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect and related child welfare issues.

New York City Department of Education
The official Department of Education site, with school and district web pages, resources for parents and teachers, and common forms.

New York State Education Department

New York Times Learning Network (Grades 3-12)
Connections for students, teachers and parents. Lesson plans provided for American History, Global History, Civics, Language Arts, Math and Economics, Science and Health, Fine Arts, Social Studies, Geography and Technology.

NoveList K-8
NYPL Library Card required for home access. Find fiction titles for students in grades K-8. Teachers can use thousands of subject headings to find titles on any instructional topic for every grade level. Students can use favorite authors or titles to find more books that they will enjoy reading. Includes full-text reviews from trusted sources such as School Library Journal and Booklist.

NYC Early Childhood Professional Development Institute
Information on career paths, training opportunities, colleges with early childhood programs and other resources. Presented by the City University of New York.

NYLearns.org
A standards-based, educational website that offers resources to enhance teaching and learning. All educational resources are aligned to the New York State Learning Standards at the performance indicator level.

Partnership for After School Education
Search for after school programs.

Professional Development Collection EBSCO
NYPL Library Card required for home access. Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 450 full text journals, designed for professional educators.

Reading and Writing Standards for grades K-3
Standards from the New York City Department of Education.

Staten Island on the Web: Education
Listing of educational resources on Staten Island.

Teachers' Domain
Teachers' Domain is a multimedia digital library for the classroom that includes content from public television productions such as Zoom, NOVA, and American Experience, as well as other other science and social studies resources. Free registration required.

U.S. Department of Education
Find out about technology initiatives, safe schools, policy papers, and other federal programs here.

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