Education - Librarian Recommended Websites
Local Resources
Olathe School District Links to all Olathe school web sites as well as contact information for staff and faculty and other information about the district.
Johnson County Community College
Kansas Department of Education Information about all state education programs, including assessment standards, teacher licensing, student scholarships, statistics and much more. The site includes staff, school and subject directories and links to information about all state colleges and universities.
MidAmerican Nazarene University
Project Finish Adult Basic Education is offered through Project Finish, an educational program sponsored by Johnson County Community College and the Johnson County Library. ABE/GED instruction is offered in 5 locations throughout Johnson County. ESL instruction is offered at 3 locations.
Popular Education Websites
Information on tests like the ACT, SAT and GRE
National Center for Education Statistics school locater Find a public or private school or library anywhere in the United States. The information includes the correct name, address, telephone number, urbanicity (rural, large city, etc.), and other student and teacher information.
Scholarships and Financial Aid
FAFSA on the Web
Fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid online.
Fastweb
Fastweb allows students to do a search for scholarships to match their background.
FinAid: The Smart Guide to Financial Aid
This award-winning site has grown into the most comprehensive annotated collection of information about student financial aid on the web.
Student Guide to Financial Aid
From the U.S. Department of Education, a comprehensive guide to information about grants, loans, and work-study.
U.S. Department of Education Homepage
Links to many useful resources such as the FAFSA, Student Guide to Financial Aid, Federal (Title IV) School Codes and lots more.
Online Library Databases
Biography Resource Center searches for biographies of individuals in a wide range of subjects, including business, politics, government, history, science, sports, the arts, and entertainment. The database also allows you to retrieve biographies based on specific sets of criteria such as ethnic background, nationality, and gender.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia is for students and adults, the Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, covers an array of topics. The database also contains various images and brief biographies. This database is updated annually Library and home use.
Live Homework Help connects 4th through 12th grade students with real, live tutors online. Receive help in math, science, social studies or English. The online tutors may be accessed on library and home computers.
Learning Express. Want to take a practice ACT or SAT test? How about practicing for the GED or Civil Service Exam?
Literature Resource Center provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Combining Gale Group's core literary databases in a single online service, the Literature Resource Center covers more than 120,000 novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and other writers, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors. Library and home use.
Science Resource Center. Research science topics with the Science Resource Center, covering thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. The latest scientific developments are covered in articles from over 200 magazines, academic journals and links to quality web sites. The database covers curriculum-related science topics and offers teachers an easy-to-use tool to identify correlated to state and national standards. Library and home use.
Student Research Center Search for articles from magazines, newspapers, biographies. encyclopedias, country and state reports, and radio and TV news transcripts. Student Research Center also includes photos, maps, films, videos and primary source documents. Designed for students in junior high and high school. Library and home use.