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The following links provide information about elementary, middle, and high schools within the St. Louis Metro area and the state of Missouri.

St. Louis Public School District
    http://www.slps.org/
Click on "Our Schools" to link to lists of elementary, middle, magnet, special and high schools.  Individual school entries include school address, telephone number, principal, and grade levels.

Map of Schools within close proximity to Saint Louis University.

Cooperating School Districts:  CSD Member Districts
     http://csd.org/csdrpdc/index.html
Click Area Schools at bottom of page to get links to Web sites of member districts and schools in St. Louis, St. Charles, Franklin, and Jefferson Counties.  Includes private and parochial schools that are members.

MISSOURI

Missouri School Directory.
     http://dese.mo.gov/directory/
     Ref. L903.M8 A3 Current edition Reference Desk
Search or browse by school district to get information including names of schools in district with principal's name and contact information, enrollment, number of certified staff, and names of school board members.

School Home Pages (Missouri)
     http://dese.mo.gov/links/School_Home_Pages/
Provides links to the School Home Pages: District for 348 districts in Missouri along with the home pages of the individual schools in Missouri that have Web pages.

School Home Pages:  Private Parochial
     http://dese.mo.gov/links/School_Home_Pages/Private_Parochial/
Alphabetical listing of private and parochial schools in Missouri.  Provides links to the home pages of the individual schools.

NATIONAL

Search for Public Schools
     http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch/
This site from the National Center for Educational Statistics, gives "the correct name, address, telephone number, NCES ID number, urbanicity (rural, large city, etc.), and other student and teacher information for public schools or school districts for school year 2001-02 as reported to NCES by state education officials in each state." (text from site)

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The following links provide information about services offered by Bi-State Development Agency.

Bus Schedule for Grand Ave.
     http://www.metrostlouis.org/MetroBus/MapsScheds/MOroutes/70Grand.pdf
Metrobus schedule for Grand Avenue. Click here for map of Grand Avenue route.

Complete list of Bus Schedule
     http://www.metrostlouis.org/MetroBus/MapsRoutes.asp
List of all available Metrobus schedules listed by route names in Missouri and Illinois.

Metrolink Schedule
     http://www.metrostlouis.org/MetroLink/MLtimetables.asp
Schedule for east and westbound light rail trains. Click here for a list of Metrolink light rail stations with maps for each.

Fare Information
     http://www.metrostlouis.org/Fares/FareChart.asp
Bus and Metrolink fare information.

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Developing Education Standards
     http://edstandards.org/Standards.html
Provides links to curriculum standards by state and subject area.

Illinois Learning Standards
     http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/Default.htm

Kincheloe, Joe L. and Danny Weil.  2001.  Standards and Schooling in the United States:  An Encyclopedia.  Santa Barbara, CA:   ABC-CLIO.
     Ref. LB 2822.82 2001  3 volumes

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.  1996.   Missouri's Frameworks for Curriculum Development:   Curriculum Guidelines:  Communication Arts, Fine Arts, Health Education/Physical Education, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Integrating Curriculum.   Jefferson City, MO: The Department.  
     Ref. LB 2806.15 .M 575 1996
     Electronic version:  Missouri's Frameworks for Curriculum Development
Please note:  Print version has fuller information.

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.  1996.  The Show-Me Standards.
     http://dese.mo.gov/standards/index.html
Approved as a final regulation by the Missouri State Board of Education, January 18, 1996.

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Edupage
     http://www.educause.edu/pub/edupage/
This listserv sponsored by EDUCAUSE e-mails summaries of technology developments drawn from the mainstream media three times per week.  Go to this site to subscribe or seach the archives.

Topica:  The Leader in Email Discussions and Publishing Solutions
     http://www.topica.com/
Directory of thousands of mailing lists and newsletters, not just education.  Search or browse by topic, or start your own.  Formerly, the Liszt e-mail and newsletter directory.

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American Federation of Teachers (AFT)
     http://www.aft.org/index.html
Home page of the American Federation of Teachers features education news, publications, reports, meetings and conferences, plus Web resources.

Education Development Center, Inc. (EDC)
     http://main.edc.org/
An organization that has been "Promoting Human Development through Education since 1958", lists links to its "clusters" and currently more than 325 projects.

Education Week:  Organizations
     http://www.edweek.org/rc/organizations/a.html
Lists major education organizations that are involved in education policy or reform alphabetically with a link to the Web site, if available.  Also includes links to Government Agencies involved in education.  Registration is REQUIRED for access.

U.S. Department of Education.  Educational Associations and Organizations
     http://www.ed.gov/about/associations.jsp
The U.S. Department of Education provides links to major national and international associations and organizations as a service to users.  They do not endorse any site or guarantee its accuracy. Links include the Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD) where searching or browsing over 3,500 national, regional, and state organizations devoted to education resources and support is possible.

National Education Association (NEA)
     http://www.nea.org/
Home page of the National Education Association includes news and links to state affiliates, grants, education statistics, vouchers, and NEA Today Online.

Yahoo! Education:  Organizations
     http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/Organizations/
Extensive lists of links to educational organizations by categories such as alumni associations; arts; early childhood education; financial aid; higher education; K-12; literacy, math; music; online teaching and learning; policy; professional; trade associations; and women.

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Access to the following resources in available to anyone in Pius Library.  "In-library access" means that access is available in the Reference Department.  Any resources identified as being available via "remote access" are available from Pius Library's Web site [http://www.slu.edu/libraries/pius/].
Note: Remote access is available to current SLU students, faculty, and staff.  Your SLU e-mail username and password are required for use.

Academic Search Premier . 1975-  .  EBSCOhost.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated daily.  This multidisciplinary database that includes education provides indexing and abstracting for 8,040 scholarly journals from various fields and has full text for over 4,060 beginning as far back as 1975. 6,679 journals are peer reviewed.

Education Full Text.  1983- .  WilsonWeb.  In-library and remote access.
     Electronic counterpart of Education Index below, except that over 200 journals are full text beginning 1994 and later.  Full-text start date varies with journal.

ERIC.  1966- .  CSA.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated monthly.  Indexes journals found in CIJE and documents found in RIE.

LexisNexis Academic.  Start date varies by publication.  LexisNexis.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated continuously.  A subset of LEXIS-NEXIS.  Provides online access to full-text of current and historical court cases, news sources, business and financial information, and international news and company information.

LLBA (Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts).  1973- .  CSA.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated monthly.  This bibliographic database provides abstracts of articles from hundreds of periodicals published worldwide, as well as books, technical reports, and dissertations.  Subjects covered include child language acquisition, speech and hearing, artificial intelligence, dialectology, bilingualism, and computational and mathematical linguistics.

Saint Louis Post-Dispatch.  1989- .  NewsBank.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated daily.  Access to archival articles back to 1989.  Go to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Web site for late-breaking news and articles available only on their Web site.  Another point of access for this newspaper is Academic Universe.

SearchERIC.org.  1966- .  Free Web Resource.
     http://searcheric.org/
This was formerly available from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation.  It is now running on a privately owned, located, and operated server not affiliated with the official government ERIC sites.  You may search ERIC (RIE+CIJE) or just ERIC Digests.  Please read the instructions for using this search system.

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Illinois Education Job Bank
     http://www.illinoiseducationjobbank.org/jobbank/
The main page for access to information about education and the workforce in Illinois.

Illinois State Board of Education
     http://www.isbe.state.il.us/
Includes links to Illinois State Learning Standards, Illinois School Report Card, and Charter School information.

Links to State Education Agencies
     http://www.ccsso.org/chief_state_school_officers/state_education_agencies/index.cfm
From the Council of Chief State School Officers, this site provides links to departments and agencies of education by state.

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)
     http://dese.mo.gov/
Includes links to K-12 Schools on the Web by district or building, Annual Reporting of School Data by school district, 1999 School District Report Card by school district, Missouri School Directory, The Show-Me Plan, Guidelines for Performance-Based Professional School Counselor Evaluation (PDF), Guidelines for Performance-Based Teacher Evaluation (PDF), and Developing Curriculum Guides Aligned to Missouri's Show-Me Standards, and Missouri's Frameworks for Curriculum Development (print copy has more information:  Missouri's Frameworks for Curriculum Development located at Ref. LB 2806.15 .M 575 1996).

State Education Agencies
     http://bcol02.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/org_list.cfm?category_ID=SEA
From the EROD, The Education Resource Organizations Directory, this site lists state departments/agencies of education alphabetically by state including territories.  Information given is address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address of contact person, and Web site, if available.

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IL Teacher Certification
     http://www.isbe.state.il.us/certification/default.htm

MO Educator Certification
     http://dese.mo.gov/divteachqual/teachcert/

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards:  Candidate Resource Center
     http://www.nbpts.org/candidates/index.cfm

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Search the Saint Louis University Libraries Catalog, the SLU electronic library catalog, and MOBIUS, the Missouri Union Catalog, by author, title, keywords, author-title, subject, etc.  Use in the library or by remote access.  The Saint Louis University Libraries Catalog is available from Pius Library's Home Page.  Tip:  Always search Saint Louis University first.  If needed item(s) is/are not found, extend the search to MOBIUS.

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