Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented, 406 E. 11^th Street, Suite 310,  Austin, TX 78701-2617, Telephone: 512-499-8264 Fax:  512-499-8264   www.txgifted.org

National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC), 1707 L Street NW,  Suite 550, Washington, DC  20036, Telephone: 202/785-4268 Fax:  202/784-4248   www.nagc.org

National Research Center for Gifted/Talented (NRC G/T) University of Connecticut,   362 Fairfield Road,   U-7 Stores,  CT  06269 Telephone:  203/486-4826   www.ucc.uconn.edu/~wwwgt

Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) 1920 Association Drive,  Reston, VA  20191, Telephone: 1-888-CEC-SPED  www.cec.sped.org

Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted (CSDPG) Frank Rainey, President , c/o Colorado Department of Education, Gifted & Talented Education, 201 E. Colfax Avenue, Denver, CO  80203   Telephone:  303/866-6849

American Education Research Association (AERA) 1230 17^th Street NW,  Washington, DC  20036-3078

Supporting the Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) College of Continuing Studies,  Kent State University,  P.O. Box 5190, Kent, OH  44242-0001, Telephone:  330/672-2294   Fax:  330/672-2512  www.kent.edu/Continuing_Studies

Javits Gifted & Talented Education Program  Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education (USDE), 555 New Jersey Avenue NW, Room 502-A, Washington, DC  20208

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The State Board for Educator Certification - http://www.sbec.state.tx.us

The College Board - http://www.collegeboard.com/

International Baccalaureate Organization -  http://www.ibo.org/

TEA ESC info (each link to an ESC will include a link to the ESC's webpage) - http://www.tea.state.tx.us/ESC/

Link to "Ask Ted" (you can look up pertinent district or campus info through "Ask Ted", ie: address, superintendent, phone numbers, etc.) - http://AskTED.tea.state.tx.us/

National Gifted Children’s Fund - http://www.ngcfcharity.org/

Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page - http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/

The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented - http://www.ucc.uconn.edu/~wwwgt/nrcgt.html

Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented - http://www.txgifted.org

National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) - http://www.txgifted.org

Gifted Development Center - http://www.gifteddevelopment.com

Recent Empiric Research on the Education of Gifted Children, Dr. Michael Sayler, University of North Texas http://www.coe.unt.edu/gifted/References_annotated.htm

Helping Gifted Children, Helen Dowland, Australia - http://helendowland.terminus.net.au/

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Websites suggested by Academic Advocates Association

Austin Area Teachers - http://www.aatfcu.org/

Texas Education Agency  - http://www.tea.state.tx.us/

Texas Computer Education Education - http://www.tcea.org/

Teachers Toolbox - http://www.kent.wednet.edu/toolbox/

The Teacher's Lounge - http://www.mcps.org/lounge/

An English Teacher's Guide -  http://lps.lexingtonma.org/LHS/Library/eteach.html

Teacher's Resource Center -  http://biology.nebrwesleyan.edu/empiricist/sources/trcindex.html

Teachers net -  http://www.teachers.net/

Federal Resources  - http://www.ed.gov/

50 States - http://www.50states.com/ (for students and parents, too)

Foreign Language Resources - http://www.geocities.com/~lagringa/

Teacher's First  - http://www.teachersfirst.com/

Daily Grammar  - http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html

Writing HTML - http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/

Kindergarten connection - http://kconnect.com/

Education world - http://www.education-world.com/index.html

Scholastic (for parents, teacher and students) - http://www.scholastic.com/index.asp

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For Students:

Great site! - http://www.discoveryschool.com

International Baccalaureate Organization - http://www.ibo.org

Register for SAT online - http://www.collegeboard.org/sat/html/satform.html

SAT and ACT prep - http://www.powerprep.com/

College entrance test prep - http://www.testprep.com

College Info - http://collegeboard.com/

About CLEP tests - http://www.collegeboard.org/clep/html/indx001.html

Scholarship Search - http://www.collegeboard.org/fundfinder/html/ssrchtop.html

Scholarship Scams  - http://www.finaid.org/scholarships/scams.html

Guide to grammar and writing  - http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

Study Skills  - http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infocs/Study/studyindex.html

Study Skills  - http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html

Study Guides and Strategies - http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/

Study Habits and The 10 Traps  - http://www.unc.edu/depts/ucc/TenTraps.html

US Universities, by State -  http://www.utexas.edu/world/univ/state/

Financial Aid  - http://www.finaid.org

Online college applications - http://www.collegenet.com/

Student Financial Assistance - http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSFAP/Students

Encarta Learning Zone (for students) - http://learn.msn.com/

Kindergarten Connection - http://kconnect.com/

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Great site! -  http://www.discoveryschool.com

Parents guide to the Internet - http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/internet/

Homework Help -  http://www.kcls.org/hh/homework.html

Homework helpers for Parents  - http://family.go.com/Features/family_1999_02/nwfm/nwfm29homework/

Publications for Parents -  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/

Texas Tomorrow Fund  - http://www.texastomorrowfund.com/

Summer Camps and youth programs  - http://www.austinsummer.org/

University Interscholastic League - http://www.utexas.edu/admin/uil/index.html

Texas PTA  - http://www.txpta.org/

National Center for Education Statistics  - http://www.ed.gov/pubs/stats.html

National PTA  - http://www.pta.org/index.st

Encarta's Learning Zone for parents  - http://learn.msn.com/parents/

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