Resources for students and parents
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This page was last modified on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 09:05:53 AM
General educational resources:
Education resources and articles
- Education News from the New York Times
"Advice from Students Who Have Been Through It" (NYT 02/23/10) College admission and aid.
- Education section of the Wall Street Journal
- Education section of the Chicago Tribune
- Education section of the Chicago Sun-Times
- Class Struggles (Jay Mathews -- Washington Post education columnist)
My blog
My reading room, especially the education section
Free-admission days at Chicago museums
- Field Museum
- Museum of Science and Industry
- Shedd Aquarium
- Adler Planetarium
- Art Institute: Thursdays 5-8 PM (5-9 PM during the summer), plus February free days -- free admission all day, every day, in February 2009
Study skills, organization, and time management
- Time management advice for students
- Advice on a variety of study-skills issues
- Another helpful website with study-skills tips
- A Virginia Tech website with study-skills advice for all students
- University of Minnesota's website
- Advice from EducationAtlas.com
- Advice from HowToStudy.org
- A collection of helpful links to study-skills websites, focusing on time management
Recommended reading for students in grades 7-12
- 101 Great Books (College Board reading list)
- 100 Best Novels (Modern Library)
- New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books (2007)
- The New York Times
- The Chicago Tribune
- The Wall Street Journal
Literature and writing
- Bartleby.com ("The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse"). Includes an encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, English usage guides (including Strunk & White's Elements of Style), collections of famous quotations, Shakespeare, the Bible, the Harvard Classics, and many other sources.
- 101 Great Books (College Board reading list)
- 100 Best Novels (Modern Library)
- New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books (2007)
- An excellent source on Jane Austen
- Jane Austen quotations can be found here ("Jane Austen's Pearls of Wisdom") and at BrainyQuote
Grammar
- Times Topics: Grammar and Usage (New York Times) -- a comprehensive resource page, with lists of grammar and usage guides, links to grammar blogs, and links to recent Times articles on grammar and usage
- The New York Times's excellent grammar blog, with recent posts here
Excellent websites on children's literature, including recommended books for children
- Author Linda Sue Park's collection of links
- More recommended books for children
Vocabulary
- Free Rice, a useful website for basic/intermediate-level vocabulary learners (and preferable to other forms of computer-assisted procrastination).
Writing resources
- Harvard Writing Center handouts