Websites Education Professor Dick Peters recommends to students:
Geography
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/main.html
History/social studies
www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/index.html
(lesson and unit plan suggestions)
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAschools.html
Mathematics
http://www.luc.edu/schools/education/csimath/zmathed.htm
(Math projects)
Science
http://www.nss.org/education/index.html
(Space science)
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/
(Solar resources)
Websites recommended by Education Professor Gayle Luck:
Ask ERIC:
http://askeric.org
From Now On:
http://www.fno.org/
Teaching with the Internet:
http://www.schoollink.org/twin/
Books recommended by Professor Luck:
Ashton-Warner, Sylvia. Teacher. 1963.
Berliner, D., Biddle, B. The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud,
and the Attack on America's Public Schools. 1997.
Codell, Esme'. Educating Esme'. 1999.
Darling-Hammond, Linda. The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for Creating
Schools that Works. 1997.
Delpit, L. Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom.
1995.
Dewey, John. Experience in Education. 1969.
Gardner, Howard. The Disciplined Mind: What All Students Should
Understand. 1999.
Kohl, Herbert. 36 Children. 1967, and other books by Kohl.
Kohn, Alfie. The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional
Classrooms and "Tougher Standards". 2000.
Kozol, Jonathan. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools.
1991, and anything else written by Kozol.
Merrow, John, Kozol, Jonathan. Choosing Excellence: "Good Enough"
Schools are not Good Enough. 2001.
Postman, Neil. The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School.
1995, and other Postman books.
Sizer, Theodore. Horace's Hope: What Works for the American High
School. 1997.
Sizer Theodore. Horace's School: Redesigning the American High School.
1997.
White, Patricia. Civic Virtues and Public Schooling: Educating Citizens
for a Democratic Society. 1996.
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