Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) is a great idea. Federal agencies are loaded with information useful to teachers and students, formerly available in print if one could find the appropriate phone number or get lucky with a mail sweepstakes. Now a lot of the information is compiled specifically for education, and the U.S. Department of Education has compiled a user-congenial site to help educators find the stuff.
Under “U.S. History and Topics” you may find a good deal of support for most social studies disciplines. The Women’s History Month focus highlights two topics from the Library of Congress and two from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
We are two decades down the road, but this was part of what we envisioned in 1987 when we undertook the reform of the ERIC Libraries System and made other significant changes in the Office of Educational Reform and Improvement (OERI), under the active pushing of Assistant Secretary of Education for Research Chester W. Finn.
Then, we were within the first decade after the report of the Commission on Excellence in Education, A Nation at Risk. The war on sloth, lethargy and buncombe in education is taking much, much longer than anyone thought* — and it’s difficult to tell who is the good guy any more.
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Thanks for the resource Ed. I know that it will a great addition for the teachers at my school and from the looks of it a great resource for the teachers that have our new Interactive ActivBoards. Stop by my blog to read about it.
Ray (edutechation.wordpress.com)
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