Education

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching.

Teacher lesson plans, online activities, classroom resources, and professional development projects are available at this public PBS education Web site.

Peer-reviewed source of lesson plans from the International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English. Primarily covers reading and English/language arts.

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The annual report about Generation Z youth focuses on key trends in child well-being in the post-recession years and offers recommendations for how policymakers can ensure all children are prepared for the future, based on the country’s shared values of opportunity, responsibility and security.

Has data on factors, such as school performance, enrollment, financial data, and more.

The largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Paper-and-pencil assessments are conducted periodically in mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, U.S. history, and in Technology and Engineering Literacy (TEL).

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences, is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

Overview of professional standards for reading educators, for student learning in reading and English language arts and the assessment of reading

National Educational Technology Standards or students, teachers and administrators.

Standards and curriculum focal points for pre-kindergarten through 8th grade mathematics.

Draft of national curriculum standards for social studies, links to state standards for history and social studies searchable by state and grade and standards for social studies teachers

English/language arts standards for elementary, middle and secondary schools.

Full-text of NSTA Standards for Science Teachers, standards for high quality K12 science programs and links to information about K12 science standards.