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Person, place, or thing that provides firsthand information about something. Examples include oral histories, letters and other original documents.

• 101 Facts on the Status of Working Women
  Facts about working women, including labor force, wages, entrepreneurs, government, family and health care.
• A Specialized Knowledge Base for Teaching American Indian and Alaska Native Students
  This paper outlines a knowledge base that can be adopted by beginning teachers of American Indian and Alaska Native students. This knowledge base is above and beyond what is now in most mainstream teacher education programs.
• Afro-American Almanac
  The AFRO-American Almanac is an on-line presentation of the African in America with a historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. Various media are used for information presentation.
• Alaska Native Knowledge Network
  The curriculum resources on this website are intended to help teachers and students make the connection between the knowledge, skills and ways of knowing used to maintain a livelihood in the villages, and the knowledge, skills and cultural standards for teaching/learning reflected in the school curriculum.
• Black History Project
  Hosted by the Christian Science Monitor, this website has a collection of diverse multimedia providing rich background information about people of African origin from around the world.
• Changing Girls' Attitudes About Computers
  This on-line Cyber-Times article reviews AAUW's report about girls and computers.
• Committee on Women in Science and Engineering
  The purpose of CWSE is to coordinate, monitor, and advocate action to increase the participation of women in science and engineering.
• Getting the Media Message
  The purpose of this 3 year research project is to examine whether the content of media, experienced by 6th, 7th and 8th graders reinforces or hinders the development of gender and racial diversity in the Informational Technology workforce.
• If Those Were Racial Slurs, Teachers Would be Stopping Them
  Developed by the Safe Schools Coalition, this is a 4-page pdf document about verbal harassment of GLBTQ students.
• Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
  Reports and articles from a White House Commission created to study educational issues related to Hispanics in the United States.
• National Geographic Topo Interactive Maps
  National Geographic provides interactive topology maps. One can create elevation profiles, upload/download GPS waypoints, print customized maps and get road data for all 50 states.
• Springer
  A global publisher, Springer is known and respected around the world for its wide range of scientific and professional publications. This website provides access to e-books, e-journals and an on-line journal archive.
• Teaching Tolerance/Southern Poverty Law Center
  Teaching Tolerance is a national education project of the Southern Poverty Law Center dedicated to helping students foster equity, respect, and understanding in the classroom and beyond. The Teaching Tolerance magazine is free and excellent with many useful articles and information for the classroom teacher as well as equity researcher.
• The Association for the Severely Handicapped
  TASH is an international association of people with disabilities, their family members, other advocates, and professionals fighting for a society in which inclusion of all people in all aspects of society is the norm.? This site was recommended by Special Education experts for its Methods and Practices section. Information is available on its provocative newsletter, Connections, that consistently challenges any hesitancy about the full inclusion of people with disabilities in the classroom and in the greater society.