http://www.sharingsuccess.org/ Sharing Success is the New York State Education Department's statewide system for identifying and disseminating successful educational programs and practices. During the past 8 years over 13,000 locations have replicated a New York State validated program. As a result, more than 39,000 practitioners have been trained impacting over 2 million learners. School districts, adult education sites, or non-profit organizations can adapt one or more of the programs profiled (over 1400) on this site which is updated daily.

http://www.nysed.gov/fmis/mgtserv/checklst.pdf School Business Management Evaluation Checklist How does your operation measure up? Look for areas to improve!

http://www.nysed.gov/fmis/mgtserv/costeff1.pdf Cost-Effectiveness in Education: A First Report (January 1998)

http://www.ecs.org Education Commission of the States

http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa Education Policy Analysis Archives

http://www.coled.umn.edu/nceo National Center on Education Outcomes

http://www.ericae.net ERIC (Education Resources Info Center)

http://www.firn.edu/doe/doelinks.htm The Florida Education Department has links to the web site of Education Departments in all fifty states

http://www.nysl.nysed.gov The New York State Library posts an extensive collection of articles, including effective practices in topical areas, such as vocational rehabilitation and bilingual education.

http://www.epnet.com/epnet/login (An ftp site, best used by those comfortable with searching databases in a non-user-friendly environment)

http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/natspec/catalog/index.html. A great site for exemplary program. The site contains the Obey-Porter List of Exemplary or Model Reform Programs which the Federal Department of Education has recommended.

http://www.edtrust.org/ The Education Trust. A useful site on effective strategies for improving achievement.

http://ericae.net/ ERIC Clearinghouse on Evaluation and Assessment

http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/cpre/finance/publica/abstracts.htm Consortium for Policy Research in Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Reflects a strictly education finance perspective. The site has some excellent cost-effectiveness research.

http://www.cresst96.cse.ucla.edu/ Funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) conducts research on important topics related to K-12 educational testing. A broadly defined educational research and policy site.

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ The National Center for Educational Statistics. Useful educational policy information.

http://www.coled.umn.edu/nceo/default.html National Center on Educational Outcomes.