OVERVIEW
ED Website Awards & Recognition (2000-2001)

2001

MultiMedia Schools (November/December 2001)

  • ... featured the GEM project in its cover story "A GEM of a Resource: The Gateway to Educational Materials."

Federal Computer Week (October 2001)

  • ... printed an article in its October 17 issue, "Education unveils Web redesign," based on ED's press release.

New York Teacher: Web Corner (October 2001)

Tech*Learning (October 2001)

Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University (September 2001)

  • ... ranked the ED web site tied for sixth among 59 federal government sites evaluated on dimensions such as service delivery, citizen responsiveness, security, privacy, foreign language translation capabilities, and disability access, in a study titled State and Federal E-Government in the United States, 2001.

Pacific Bell's Knowledge Network Explorer (September 2001)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science NetLinks (September 2001)

  • ... re-reviewed and confirmed its recommendation of Helping Your Child Learn Science for use in classrooms.

FirstGov (August 2001)

TechLearning (July 2001)

Federal Computer Week (July 23, 2001)

  • ... reported that ed.gov was the 6th most visited government domain in June 2001 with 1.88 million unique visitors, according to Jupiter Media Metrix.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)'s Science NetLinks site (July 2001)

  • ... added the NCES web site to its comprehensive site for science educators in July, joining other ED-sponsored sites such as AskERIC, the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse, and the South Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium (SCRTEC) Explorer site.

The Duluth Tribune (June 2001)

EdMedia's Educators' Portal (June 2001)

American Society for Training & Development (ASTD)'s Learning Circuits (May 2001)

The Washington Post (April 5, 2001)

  • ... reported that ed.gov was the 7th most visited government domain in February 2001, up 28% from a year ago, according to Jupiter Media Metrix.

Child Magazine (March 2001)

Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer (March 16, 2001)

PC Magazine (online February 14, 2001; print March 6, 2001)

National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) (January 2001)

  • ... included Helping Your Child Learn Science in its new sciLINKS service.

In 2001, Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (2001) featured the following ED resources as "Site of the School Day":

In 2001, the Internet Scout Report cited the following new ED web resources:

2000

U.S. News and World Report (December 4, 2000)

  • ... included the NCES web site among favorite information sites in the "Culture and Education" category in "Best of the Web: Information."

D-lib Magazine (December 2000)

  • ... (a monthly magazine about innovation and research in digital libraries) included a report on the Virtual Reference Desk Conference by Roxanne Missingham of the National Library of Australia.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (November 2000)

Access America (November 6, 2000)

Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer (November 3, 2000)

The Washington Post (October 20, 2000)

School Library Journal (October 2000)

Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University (September 2000)

  • ... ranked the ED web site fourth among federal government sites evaluated on dimensions such as service delivery, citizen responsiveness, security, privacy, foreign language translation capabilities, and disability access, in a study titled Assessing E-Government: The Internet, Democracy, and Service Delivery by State and Federal Governments.

Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer (August 2000)

USA Today (July 24, 2000)

White House (June 2000)

Education World (June 2000)

Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer (April 2000)

  • ... selected the Knowledge Loom for a Blue Web'n award and inclusion in the Blue Web'n directory.

Federal Computer Week (April 24, 2000)

  • ... publicized NCES' College Opportunities On-Line (COOL) in an article titled "Web links students, colleges."
  • ... featured FAFSA on the Web as one of "10 unheralded but innovative Web sites that are paving the way to digital government" in an article "10 Sites to Watch."

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) (April 21, 2000)

Federal Computer Week (April 17, 2000)

  • ... reported that www.ed.gov was the 7th most-visited government web site according to PC Data, Inc., which has tracked 120,000 Web users and the sites they visit for the past year.

Government Computer News (March 6, 2000)

  • ... reported that ed.gov was the 9th most visited government domain and the 377th most visited of all web domains in January 2000. The data came from a representative sample of 50,000 people whose web use was tracked by Media Metrix, an Internet measurement service.

Netscape's Government Guide (March 2000)

Learning & Leading with Technology magazine (March 2000)

  • ... a publication of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), published an article - "Teaching Students to Use the Internet as a Research Tool" - featuring several ED-sponsored web sites: the ED home page, Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE), and ERIC.

MiddleWeb (March 2000)

Access Internet Magazine (February 2000)

ASCD Education Bulletin (February 2000)

Internet TourBus (February 2000)

MiddleWeb (January 2000)

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators (January 2000)

In 2000, the Internet Scout Report cited the following new ED web resources:

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