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Education
Adult Education and Technical Schools
- Adult Education and Career Schools Directory - A comprehensive directory of professional, trade schools and vocational schools and colleges.
- Adult and Continuing Education - "Jefferson County Public Schools Adult Education offers comprehensive basic skills training, free of charge, in more than 50 locations throughout Jefferson County. The choice of day or evening classes makes it easy for busy adults to attend and to progress at their own pace."
- Technical Colleges Directory - Search technical schools by state at this site.
- West Kentucky Community & Technical College
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Boarding and Vocational Schools
- The Association of Boarding Schools
- Kentucky's Vocational School Web Sites
- RWM Vocational School Database - RWM provides a database of Private Postsecondary Vocational Schools in all 50 states.
- Vocational Schools Guide
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College Directories
- The National Catholic College Admission Association
- CollegeKY.com - "...provides links to the higher education Web sites you need to make a college education in Kentucky a reality."
- CollegeView - A free online college search service with profiles of more than 3,500 colleges and universities, virtual tours, electronic applications, financial information, career planning tools, and more.
- CollegeXpress - Search here for colleges by region, keyword, profile, or alphabetically.
- EdRef College Search Directory - EdRef.com presents unbiased information on substantially all colleges in the country and includes minority and athletic, religious search options.
- Fashion Design Colleges - Fashion career resource featuring fashion design school listings, fashion design articles, career descriptions and more. Search our network of schools and request free information.
- U.S. Universities and Community Colleges - This University of Texas Austin site includes links to lists of universities, what's new at universities, what's new at community colleges and lists of community colleges.
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Foreign Languages and English as a Second Language (ESL)
- Jefferson County Public Schools Adult Education Program - The ESL program is open to any adults wanting to improve their english and communication skills. "Instructors combine information on U.S. culture with practice in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing."
- FSI Language Courses - Free, downloadable languages courses originally developed by the State Department's Foreign Service Institute. You'll find audio (MP3) and/or text (pdf) for learning several languages.
General Education Resources
- The Chronicle of Higher Education - The Chronicle gives you weekly news and information about academe.
- ERIC - "The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. . The ERIC online system provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966.
- .edu - US News and World Report College and Career Information
- Mapping Your Future - Provides information on planning your career, selecting a school, and paying for your education. This site also includes scholarship and financial aid information and online applications.
- National Education Association
- Jefferson County Public Schools Adult Education Program - JCPS offers free classes to adults interested in learning to read or improving reading skills.
- United Negro College Fund
- US Department of Education
- U.S. Office of Migrant Education
General Equivalency Diploma (GED)
- Graduate! Greater Louisville: GED to PhD - "Graduate! Greater Louisville is a regional, bi-state community-wide effort to increase the visibility of post-secondary education. The core of the marketing campaign will focus on directly relating education attainment levels to jobs. Graduate! Greater Louisville is an initiative of the Hire Education Forum - a collaborative of post-secondary institutions throughout the bi-state Greater Louisville region."
- GED Exam - "Adults who are 16 years of age or older who are not enrolled or required to be enrolled in school may be eligible to take the GED exam. You must be certified as "test ready" before scheduling an appointment to take the GED exam. Those interested in taking the GED exam must first contact the Adult Education Enrollment Center at 485-3400."
- The GED is FREE with your library card!
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Home Schooling
- Home Schooling in Kentucky from the Kentucky Department of Education - "This web-site contains the information people need, whether it is a guide to home school requirements or best practices, including sample forms for record-keeping, reading lists for more information, and questions beginning home-schoolers may have."
- Kentucky Home Education Association - "Kentucky Home Education Association is a non-sectarian organization open to all conscientious supporters of home education – without regard to race, color, creed or religion. We are the oldest, statewide homeschooling organization. Our stated purpose is to recognize, encourage, and protect the inalienable, God-given right of parents to educate their children at home; to monitor legislation as it relates to home education; to disseminate information concerning pertinent home education issues; to provide spokespersons for home education in Kentucky; and to inform the general public and policy makers of the credibility and value of home education."
Jefferson County
- Graduate! Greater Louisville: GED to PhD - "Graduate! Greater Louisville is a regional, bi-state community-wide effort to increase the visibility of post-secondary education. The core of the marketing campaign will focus on directly relating education attainment levels to jobs. Graduate! Greater Louisville is an initiative of the Hire Education Forum - a collaborative of post-secondary institutions throughout the bi-state Greater Louisville region."
- Jefferson County Public Schools
- Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1 - This case also involved Jefferson County Public Schools
- Kentuckiana College Access Center
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LIteracy
Every1Reads.com - A program which connects students with volunteer readers.
Literacy Connection Backpacks - Special backpack kits available at your library containing books & learning activities for preschoo-age children and their caregivers.
The Literacy Project - Books, articles and videos conveniently compiled by Google.
National Center for Family Literacy - Wealth of resources for students, parents and teachers.
Reading is Fundamental - Variety of programs to help make reading exciting and productive for children.
Storyline Online - Popular children’s books read aloud by prominent actors, sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
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Kentucky
- GoHigherKY.org - "The Go Higher KY website is your complete guide to attending college in Kentucky. By taking a few minutes to create a student account on Go Higher KY, you can automatically insert your information into financial aid and college applications, visit campuses virtually, explore career options, get adult education information, and receive help transferring to another school."
- Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education
- Kentucky Department of Education
- Kentucky Migrant Technology Report
- Kentucky Schools Directory
Local Schools
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Rankings
- U.S. News and World Report College Rankings - Paper edition published August 28, 2006.
- U.S. News and World Report Graduate School Rankings - Paper edition published April 9, 200
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Scholarship and Financial Aid
- Community Foundation of Louisville - "...A searchable database of scholarship funding available to students."
- Community Foundation of Southern Indiana - "The Community Foundation of Southern Indiana, (CFSI) is a non-profit foundation that accepts money from individuals and organizations and holds it in trust, using the interest in part to fund community organizations and scholarships."
- edu Financial Aid - From US News and World Report.
- FAFSA -- The Free Application for Federal Student Aid
- FastWEB.com Scholarship Search - The Internet's largest free scholarship search.
- FinAid! - The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid.
- MyCollegeGuide.org - Find a college meeting your specifications.
- Student Financial Aid - Financial aid information from the U.S. Department of Education.
- Title IV codes from the US Department of Education
- Financial Aid Calculators - Online financial calculators. Includes the college cost projector, savings growth projector, savings plan designer, annual yield calculator, compound interest calculator, and a savings plan yield calculator.
- The Student Guide - Financial aid information from the U.S. Department of Education.
- Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation - The Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation is a public, nonprofit corporation that administers the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP).
- Free Scholarship Searches - This site has links to 32 scholarship sites. It also includes other education links as well.
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Test Preparation and Testing
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- ACT Inc. - From the creators of the ACT test, this is an excellent resource for students and parents. It has an online need estimator, too.
- The College Board Online - Links to scholarship searches; online SAT registration; college board test dates; college search information; a financial aid calculator; and more.
- COMPASS - "The COMPASS exam is a computer-based assessment advising program designed to identify the basic skill levels of students as they enter college. The primary goal of this assessment process is to efficiently and effectively gather information about individual student's skills, needs, and plans, as an important step in the process of assisting the student in developing and implementing a sound program of study that leads to their goals. The tests are not timed. The testing process for the COMPASS exam may be as short as 2.0 hours or as long as 4.0 hours." This is the entrance exam used at KCTCS.
- CPat - CPAT is the entrance exam used by Sullivan University .
- ETS.org - The web site for the Educational Testing Network. Here you will find information on practice tests, financial aid, careers and jobs, colleges and universities, and test and services directory.
- Princeton Review - Provides information about testing for the SAT, ACT and PSAT.
- Syndicate.com - This site focuses on helping you learn vocabulary in preparation for the SAT, SSAT, GRE, or LSAT tests.
- The SAT Program Online - Provides test date calendars, fee information, and detailed information on taking the test.
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Last Updated:
05/28/2008
