Education

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Child and Youth Care Worker Certification Institute :

- Certifies individual child/youth care work practitioners and accredits training and education programs. Includes information on goals, testing, and certification.
Children's Courtyard :

- Early childhood education, with locations in Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Houston areas. Give information on teacher training, employment, programs, and certifications.
Computer Career Center :

- Offers career training in business, legal, medical, and technology job fields in El Paso, Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Education Career Alternatives Program :

- ECAP is an alternative teacher certification program designed for candidates who hold a bachelors degree, meet application requirements, and become highly qualified to obtain a Texas teaching certificate.
etools4Education :

- Offering online Texas teacher certifications and other educational information and resources.
Get Certified! Texas :

- GetCertifiedTexas provides preparation for the Examination for the Texas Examinations of Educator Standards (TExES) using Study Guides, Classes, and practice questions.
Gifted Education Policies for Texas :

- An interactive, graphic guide to gifted and talented education issues for Texas, featuring in-depth information on state education statistics, legislation and policies, obstacles, schools, and opportunities.
KERA Educational Resources :

- Monthly schedules of programming on KDTN 2 and KERA 13 public television stations, and related educator materials.
Links for Texas Educators :

- Excellent list of links for sites related to Texas education, especially for K-12.
Mathematics TEKS Toolkit :

- Information for Texas educators. Includes news and product catalog.
North Texas Science Education Network :

- Resources for K-12, College/University, and Informal Science Education in the North Texas area.
Police Futurists :

- The Society of Police Futurists International (PFI) is an organization of law enforcement practitioners, educators, researchers, private security specialists, technology experts and other professionals dedicated to improving criminal and social justice through the professionalization of policing.
Stepping Stone School :

- Offers programs for children 18 months to 5 years of age. FAQs, testimonials, a list of corporate partners, curriculum, enrollment form, and a list of locations in Austin, Round Rock, Leander, and College Station.
Student Success Initiatives :

- Learn from TEA how Texas is meeting the challenge to provide its children with research-based instruction in reading and math.
Teacher Retirement System (TRS) :

- Providing retirement and related benefits for employees of public schools, colleges, and universities. Includes information about investments, retirement account access, training, upcoming legislation, and agency administration and employment.
Teaching Jobs in Texas :

- Allows education career seekers to find employers seeking to fill teaching jobs and other education related employment in Texas.
TENET Web :

- Texas Education Network. Its purpose is to provide the most useful, up-to-date resources for the education community: teachers, administrators, parents and students.
Texans Can! Academies :

- Nontraditional high school programs for at-risk youths at locations in Dallas, Fort Worth, Farmers Branch, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Includes mission, profile, locations, programs, and contact information.
Texans for Better Science Education :

- A statewide, grassroots organization dedicated to maintaining the professionalism of science education in Texas public schools and the integrity of science in the Texas public school curriculum.
Texas Academic Decathlon :

- Academic competition for students from all academic backgrounds, and both public and private high schools. Regional and state competitions advance to an annual nationals event.
Texas Academy Of Mathematics And Science :

- TAMS is a unique residential program at the University of North Texas for high school-aged Texas students who are gifted in math and science. While living in McConnell Hall, students in this two-year program complete a rigorous academic curriculum of college coursework at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Texas Aerospace Scholars Program :

- An interactive on-line learning experience highlighted by a week-long internship where selected students are encouraged to study math, science, engineering, or computer science by interacting with engineers at the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC).
Texas Alliance for Minorities in Engineering :

- Focuses on increasing and strengthening minority and female participation in the engineering, scientific and computer science professions.
Texas Association of School District Police (TASDP) :

- Affiliated with the Texas Municipal Police Association so as to afford to the school district police greater access to professional training; to have greater opportunities for a legislative agenda; and, to enable members to receive legal representation in times of personal need.
Texas Citizens for Science :

- A statewide, grassroots organization dedicated to maintaining the professionalism of science education in Texas public schools, the integrity of science in the Texas public school curriculum, and the accuracy of science in Texas government agencies and institutions.
Texas Colleges and Universities :

- Link directory for colleges and universities in Texas.
Texas Education Agency (TEA) :

- Information for the Texas education community.
Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation :

- Information, publications, and forms for schools, lenders, and borrowers.
Texas High School Project - Exemplar Program :

- THSP is a $261 million public-private initiative committed to increasing graduation and college enrollment rates in every Texas community and is dedicated to ensuring that all Texas students leave high school prepared for college and career success in the 21st century economy.
Texas International Education Consortium :

- TIEC is an organization of 32 public universities in Texas whose purpose includes developing, coordinating and conducting international education programs. Information on programs, affiliated universities, and staff.
Texas Reading Initiative for Parents & Educators :

- Information geared to parental interest in reading instruction and how to help their student be successful.
Texas School for the Deaf :

- A residential school for deaf or hard-of-hearing Texas students, ages 0-22.
Texas School Rankings :

- Texas Public K-12 School Rankings are based on data from the Academic Excellent Indicator System (AEIS) provided by Texas Education Agency.
Texas Schoolhouses :

- Showcasing Texas historic schoolhouses, contemporary and vintage photos; articles on Texas educations.
Texas Schools :

- Your objective source of elementary, middle and high school information for public, private and charter schools. Access Choosing Schools, Track School Performance and the Parent Resource Center to learn about school performance and help your child succeed.
Texas Schools Job Vacancy Lists :

- Includes links to jobs available for teachers and administrators listed by school district, open across the state. Job Fair calendar included.
The Texas Schools Project (TSP) :

- The TSP brings together individual level data from multiple Texas state agencies, school districts, as well as other sources to support independent, high-quality academic research. Projects, papers, alliances, upcoming events and affiliated researchers.
Texas Teachers of Tomorrow, LLC. :

- Offers an alternative teaching certification program for state of Texas. Also acts as a resource center with tips on state certification tests and teaching job resources in Texas.
Texas Tomorrow Fund :

- Prepaid higher education tuition program.
Tutoring Direct :

- We provide one on one in home tutoring by highly qualified tutors. Math, science, test preparation, special education, english, reading, social studies, reading, prekindergarten through adult.
NYTimes.com - Juggling 3 School Goals, Texas Trips :

- Low taxes, good schools and equal access to public education for the rich and the poor are clashing in Texas, and one of them will likely give very soon. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.] (October 30, 2002)