•ETS-Educational Testing Services: Links to official test sites for SAT, AP, CLEP, GRE, TOEFL and more.
•General Education Development: Washington state information on eligibility, preparing for the test, testing center locations, and records requests.
•College Rankings: Compilation of ranking services, with extensive reviews of such services. From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Education and Social Science Library.
•College Board: Information on college planning for students, parents and educators. Includes SAT registration.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Jobs, Internships, and Testing
•AmeriCorps: A national service program open to U.S. citizens, nationals, or lawful permanent resident aliens age 17 and older. Members serve full or part time over a 10- to 12-month period. AmeriCorps members earn an education award that can be used to pay for college or to pay back qualified student loans.
•Cool Works: information on seasonal jobs all over the world.
•Groovejob.com: find part time, hourly, and seasonal work in the U.S. and Cananda.
•Volunteer Match: contains local and national volunteer listings.
•Cool Works: information on seasonal jobs all over the world.
•Groovejob.com: find part time, hourly, and seasonal work in the U.S. and Cananda.
•Volunteer Match: contains local and national volunteer listings.
Health & Safety
•Don’t Believe the Type: offers information about online dangers, including sexual solicitation.
•Planned Parenthood’s Teen Talk: Award-winning website with information on sexual health for teens and caregivers.
•Scarlateen: Sexuality and health education and support for teens.
•Teenshealth: Information and advice about health, relationships, and growing up.
•Planned Parenthood’s Teen Talk: Award-winning website with information on sexual health for teens and caregivers.
•Scarlateen: Sexuality and health education and support for teens.
•Teenshealth: Information and advice about health, relationships, and growing up.
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, & other Resources
•Dictionary.com: the largest and most trusted free online dictionary.
•Merriam Webster’s World Central: offers a student dictionary, Daily Buzzword, and interactive word games. Includes homework help and lesson plans.
•Encyclopedia Britannica: online encyclopedia that contains hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites.
•American Memory: Audio and sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. From the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions.
•CIA-The World Factbook: Information on countries from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
•Merriam Webster’s World Central: offers a student dictionary, Daily Buzzword, and interactive word games. Includes homework help and lesson plans.
•Encyclopedia Britannica: online encyclopedia that contains hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and web sites.
•American Memory: Audio and sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. From the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions.
•CIA-The World Factbook: Information on countries from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
Books & Reading
•Adlit.org-Adolescent Literacy: is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers.
•ALA Recommended Reading: recommended lists of teen-pleasing titles available at libraries and bookstores
•Seattle Public Library Teen Reading List: Compiled by librarians at the Seattle Public
•ALA Recommended Reading: recommended lists of teen-pleasing titles available at libraries and bookstores
•Seattle Public Library Teen Reading List: Compiled by librarians at the Seattle Public
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