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The President's Council on Physical Fitness
World Wide Web:
http://www.fitness.gov/
This site offers contact and descriptive information on the President’s Council on Physical Fitness. Also, information on presidential fitness partners and participating organizations.
White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach
World Wide Web:
http://www.whitehouse.gov
Information about the office, a newsletter and a listing of recent events.
Children and Youth Family Education Research Network
World Wide Web:
http://www.cyfernet.org
This cite provides links to Programs and Resources Against Violence (PAVNET), youth-at-risk programs, national network for child care, family resiliency, and science and technology literacy, as well as resources and statistics for child, youth, and family programs. A program of the USDA and 4-H.
Department of Commerce Consumer Affairs Office
World Wide Web:
http://home.doc.gov/
The Department of Commerce offers information on how to obtain consumer bulletins and reports, tip sheets, and business education guides.
Department of Defense Bosnia Contact Information
World Wide Web:
http://www.army.mil/
The U.S. Army offers directions on how to send mail to any service member stationed in Bosnia, and to their families in Germany. Also, how to send mail to an unspecified service member or family.
U.S. Department of Education
World Wide Web:
http://www.ed.gov/
Links to information on national education goals; Education Department guides for teachers and researchers; national initiatives, including Goals 2000 and the School-to-Work initiative; publications; press releases; a staff directory; funding opportunities; the Chronicle of Higher Education's Academe This Week; and links to other education sites and programs.
Descriptions of a number of U.S. Department of Education sites follow.
Educational Resources Information Center
ASK ERIC
World Wide Web
http://ericir.syr.edu/
The ERIC system is a clearinghouse of educational resources, including lesson plans for teachers, information on education issues and GOALS 2000, and information guides on education
concepts in specific fields with expert commentary and bibliographies. Links to other ERIC clearinghouses.
National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing
World Wide Web:
http://www.cse.ucla.edu
This site offers links to information on kindergarten-through-12th-grade assessment research. Also, information on education testing, research and development, and evaluation.
National Center on Adult Literacy
World Wide Web
http://litserver.literacy.upenn.edu/
Links to the center’s research agency, current projects, publications, the Department of Education, the Literacy Technology Laboratory and the International Literacy Institute.
National Network of Regional Educational Laboratories
World Wide Web
http://www.nwrel.org/national
Links to a staff directory and information on the regional education laboratories, and links to lab sites nationwide.
Postsecondary Education Office
World Wide Web
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OPE
Links to the office of the assistant secretary for postsecondary education, and to relevant programs and organizations. Also includes current student loan information and downloadable application for federal student aid.
Project Easy Access for Students and Institutions
World Wide Web
http://easi.ed.gov/
Information on a collaboration among government, business, and education leaders to re-engineer the postsecondary education financial system.
School-To-Work Initiative
World Wide Web
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/
The School-to-Work initiative provides federal seed money to partner businesses, community organizations, and government with students to prepare students for the job market. Site includes information on events, announcements and grant descriptions.
Department of Health and Human Services
Administration on Children and Families
World Wide Web
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/
Information promoting economic and social well-being of children and families. Welfare reform demonstration program information, news releases, recent policy information, staff e-mail addresses and contact information, and program announcements.
Child Support Enforcement Office
World Wide Web
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cse/index.html
Information at this site includes a directory of state child support enforcement offices, profiles of child-support enforcement policies and activities in each state, OCSE regulations and annual reports, and a listing of child-support conferences.
U.S. Department of Interior
World Wide Web
http://www.doi.gov
General information, organization chart, budget information, job announcements and links to DOI bureaus. Includes information on national parks, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and congressional testimony.
Bureau of Indian Affairs
World Wide Web
http://www.doi.gov/
Descriptive information about the BIA and its director; available education programs, listings of regional offices and current press releases. Link to the Division of Energy and Mineral Resources.
National Park Service
World Wide Web
http://www.nps.gov/
Background information, contact list, publications, information on individual national parks, NPS data and information on the American Civil War Battlefield Protection Plan, National Archeological Database, Prairie Grove Battlefield and NPS Geospatial Clearinghouse.
U.S. Department of Justice
Community Relations Service
World Wide Web
http://www.usdoj.gov/crs/index.html
General information and contact information for CRS offices nationwide are included in this site.
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Office
World Wide Web
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/
This site provides information on congressional activities and office mission and goals. Also, links to other sites, including the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
National Institute of Justice
World Wide Web
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/
This site contains searchable NIJ directories and files on anti-stalking models, assessing the impact of Dade County, Florida’s felony drug court, the Children-at-Risk Program, developing drug testing by hair analysis, the Drug Use Forecasting Program, jail boot camps, gangs, and community policing.
U.S. Department of Transportation
World Wide Web
http://www.dot.gov/
This site provides information on transportation issues relating to highway, transit, aviation, railroad, and boating safety, including vehicle recalls, transportation crash statistics, vehicle manufacturing requirements, child safety seats, and school bus, pedestrian and bicycle safety programs
Consumer Product Safety Commission
World Wide Web
http://www.cpsc.gov/
This site provides instructions for reporting an unsafe consumer product. Files of press releases; public calendars; Federal Register notices; information for manufacturers, retailers, and distributors; and instructions for receiving information from CPSC via-mail.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
World Wide Web:
http://www.nasa.gov/
The NASA homepage offers links to NASA news, subjects of public interest, NASA strategic plan and other NASA strategies, policies and public affairs information, NASA online education resources and NASA information sources by subject.
NASA Earth Observing System
World Wide Web
http://eos.nasa.gov/
Discover, retrieve and display documents and data about the Earth Observing System. Information on EOS issues and access to the Payload Panel Report. Additional resources to be added to include Algorithm Theoretical Basis Documents, the EOS Reference Handbook, the EOS directory, images from various satellites and airborne instruments, and cross-references to other EOS-related information servers on the Internet.
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
World Wide Web
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Central guide for many NASA projects and services. The NASA Information by subject section connects to servers by subject category. The map links to the homepages of NASA centers and servers of other national and international space agencies. Also includes a personnel locator, which finds addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses for NASA staff; and a public affairs section that provides access to satellite images, information about space shuttle missions and astronauts. Gopher servers, including the Network Applications Information Center, scientific and technical information, Computer Software Management Information Center, and information on small shuttle payloads.
NASA K-12
National Research and Education Network
World Wide Web
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
This site contains materials aimed at elementary, middle, high school, and community college instructors. Information includes science lesson plans and curricular guides; guides to Internet science sources; and database, image and text files to support special NASA education projects.
NASA Kennedy Space Flight Center
World Wide Web
http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/ksc.html
This site provides NASA Gopher, Web and tenet sites organized by center and project under an Additional NASA Services section. The historical archive section provides comprehensive information about past space missions, listed by project name and mission number, shuttle missions; planetary probes and upcoming missions. Access to images transmitted from space, lists of mission objectives and accomplishments, and biological data about crew members. The FAQ section includes shuttle mission schedules, an article about how to become an astronaut and instructions for obtaining a launch pass.
NASA Liftoff to Space Exploration
World Wide Web
http://liftoff.msfc.nasa.gov/
Information on Astro-2 experiments and discoveries. Read the Astro-2 log and find out about the shuttle flight crew. View stars, galaxies, planets, and quasars in ultra-violet light.
NASA Shuttle Mission
World Wide Web
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
Links to experiments in the second flight of the sixth space shuttle mission, Columbia. Information on the Microgravity Laboratory, which will be used to investigate the near-weightless environment on Columbia and how it affects fluids, combustion, material structures and protein crystals, and to demonstrate technology needed to further microgravity research on the shuttle and the International Space Station. Also, information on the countdown, launch, orbit, landing, crew, photos, and press releases.
NASA Space Calendar
World Wide Web
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/
Lists date of scheduled launches, anniversaries of important space missions, birthdays of important astronomers, and astronomical highlights, such as eclipses and asteroid flybys. Also links to information on many launches, past space missions, and biographies of astronomers.
Smithsonian Institution
World Wide Web
http://www.si.edu/
Links to the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Natural History Web and the Smithsonian Institution photo server. There is an alternative site address located in California at www.si.sgilcom.
Smithsonian Center for Earth and Planetary Studies and National Air and Space Museum
World Wide Web
http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/
Links to servers with images of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collision with Jupiter and the Space Shuttle Repository and Regional Planetary Image Facility.
Smithsonian Natural History Museum
World Wide Web
http://www.nmnh.si.edu/
This site offers directories and files on botany, vertebrate and invertebrate zoology, paleontology, and other biological gophers. Field study program announcements.
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