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Activities organized around a particular academic topic or challenge in which students from various parts of the country (or world) participate, using the Internet. Goals and outcomes are broad. (Example: A semester-long effort to observe, gather, and analyze data on water quality.)

• Advocates for Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics
  AWSEM is an after-school project designed to link middle school girls with role models. Girls meet for hands-on science activities, presentations and field trips.
• 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.
• American Indian Science and Engineering Society
  The American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES) is a national, nonprofit organization which nurtures building of community by bridging science and technology with traditional Native values.
• Back-to-School/Stay-in-School
  The Back-to-School/Stay-in-School Program was created in response to alarming high school dropout rates. Understanding the correlation between education and life-long earnings and the need to maximize the human potential.
• Can Do!
  The Can Do! web site offers stories, activities, and resources to help create a better understanding and deeper appreciation of how people can overcome their challenges and reach their dreams by using their abilities and a "can-do" attitude.
• Center for Gifted Education Policy
  The Center for Gifted Education Policy is run by the American Psychological Association and conducts research and advocacy work to inform educational policy on Gifted and Talented youth. They also have a newsletter, a journal, and a listserv.
• Children's Grief Education Association
  The CGEA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the needs of grieving children and families and to providing education and support to those who serve them.
• Circle of Stories
  Circle of Stories uses documentary film, photography, artwork and music to honor and explore Native American storytelling.
• 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.
• Engaging People in Cyberinfrastructure
  The goal of Engaging People In Cyberinfrastructure (EPIC) is to build human capacity by creating awareness of the opportunities afforded through cyberinfrastruture(CI) and by educating and training a diverse group of people in all stages of life from K-12 to professional practice to fully participate in the CI community as developers, users, and leaders.
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education
  A collection of resources related to American Indians and Alaska Natives, Mexican Americans, Migrants, and Outdoor Education.
• 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.
• Girls FIRST
  This web site provides resources for hosting a science club for girls.
• 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.
• Learning Anytime, Anywhere
  Arizona State University's e-Learning Network was formed to prepare adults in the underserved population to gain "anytime, anyplace_ access to technology education aimed at computer literacy and preparation for computer networking and related fields. ASU's Information Technology Fundamentals online curriculum consists of modules on topics ranging from Setting Up A Computer to Networking and have been designed for the digital divide population.
• Multicultural Pavilion - Teacher's Corner
  A comprehensive site of useful classroom activities, books, quotes, and discussions on multicultural education.
• National Association for Gifted Children
  NAGC is an organization of parents, teachers, educators, community leaders and others who are concerned with providing the best educational and life experiences for children who are identified as Gifted and Talented. They have added a useful feature to their site: a "Parent Resource Specialist_ who will respond electronically to your questions and concerns about providing appropriate services to Gifted and Talented children.
• Project Zero
  Project Zero at Harvard University was started by Howard Gardner and is the research and application arm for multiple intelligence theory. Their research projects are fully described and quite interesting and informative.
• SEED Project
  The SEED (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Project in Inclusive Curriculum provides resources to set up powerful roundtable, book study groups of teachers who wish to transform the (still) largely White Male curriculum. Peggy McIntosh developed the SEED project through the Wellesley Center for Research on Women (www.wellesley.edu) and is the author of "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack._ Short, powerful, and easily readable, her 1989 article has centered our thinking about race (and other variables) on the notion of "privilege_ like nothing else.
• Teaching For Change
  Probably the best catalog for overall equity and social justice issues in education is put out by Teaching for Change. Beyond Heroes and Holidays in a "must-have_ for both inservice and preservice work on gender-fair and multicultural education that moves beyond celebrating the "Three F's_: Food, Fun, and Festival, and focuses on undoing racism and oppression.
• 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 Civil Rights Project
  This project renews the civil rights movement by bridging the world of ideas and action.
• Wellesley Centers for Women
  The Wellesley Centers for Women, formerly the separate Stone Center and Wellesley Center for Research on Women, is an excellent site with many resources, links, and analysis on gender equity issues, for both girls and boys. Top line researchers in gender equity are housed in the Centers, including the work of Peggy McIntosh, Jean Baker Miller, Nan Stein, Susan McGee Bailey, and Deborah Tolman.