Education
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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.
More helpful educational tools available from the library or your home computer
New Books
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Reference Books
These are just a few of the many education reference books available at the Olathe Public Library. Although reference books may not be checked out, they are available to view at the library.
Barron's Profiles of American Colleges 2007
REF 378.1542 Barrons 2007
The College Blue Book 2008
REF 378.241 College 2008
Guide to Distance Learning Programs
REF 378.175 Guide 2003
Peterson's Colleges in the Midwest 2008
REF 378.241 Peterson's 2008
New Multimedia (DVDs, audiobooks, etc)
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SAT, ACT, PSAT 2006 Express |
Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire (unabridged book on CD) |
Hobart Shakespeareans
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Magazines, Journals and Newspapers
Phi Delta Kappan: the Professional Journal for Education
Dewey Call Numbers
Books pertaining to the subject �??education�?? are in the 370s of the Dewey Decimal System, and that�??s where you will find them in our book stacks. More specifically, the Dewey Decimal system breaks the 370s down into these subject areas:
371 School management; special education
372 Elementary education
373 Secondary education
374 Adult education
375 Curriculums
376 Education of women
377 Schools & religion
378 Higher education
