.Tech-Prep Texas: Statewide Leadership and Evaluation
This site contains information about implementation of Tech-Prep across the state and within each of the state's twenty-six regional consortia. This site contains the information on statewide articulation.

.Texas Tech Prep
Texas Tech Prep page of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Web Site. It provides information on governance and guidelines on Texas Consortia.

Alamo Tech Prep Consortium

Brazos Valley Tech Prep Consortium

Capital Area Tech Prep

Coastal Bend Tech Prep

Concho Valley Tech Prep Consortium

Deep East Texas Tech Prep Consortium

East Texas Tech Prep Consortium

Global Edge Tech Prep Consortium

Golden Crescent Tech Prep/School to Careers

Gulf Coast School to Careers

Heart Of Texas Tech Prep Consortium

Lower Rio Grande Valley Tech Prep

North Central Tech Prep

North Texas Tech Prep

Panhandle Tech Prep School to Careers

Permian Basin Tech Prep

South Plains Tech Prep School to Careers

South Texas Tech Prep Consortium

Southeast Texas Tech Prep

Star Tech Prep

Tarrent County Sector

Texoma Tech Prep

Upper East Texas Tech Prep/School-to-Work Partnership

Upper Rio Grande

Weatherford Area Tech Prep Consortium

West Central Texas Tech Prep Consortium

Association for Career and Technology Education
The Association for Career and Technical Education is the largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for careers. Its mission is to provide educational leadership in developing a competitive workforce

Career and Technology Education: National Research Center/National Dissemination Center
Career and technical education programs are an integral part of public education and are designed to educate about, through, and for careers. The National Research and Dissemination Centers for Career and Technical Education, as primary sources of research-based information, will significantly affect the quality of knowledge and understanding necessary to advance career and technical education in the United States.

Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) and the National Tech Prep Network
This site contains information on National Tech Prep Network , the Library of the Workplace, contextual learning, professional development, and research findings.

Center on Education and Work
The Center's work enables educators to engage youth and adults in learning and career development experiences that lead to meaningful and productive careers. Toward that end, the Center undertakes research, development, and capacity-building technical assistance activities to strengthen the connections among educational institutions, workplaces, communities, and families. Ultimately, the Center's efforts are designed to enhance the quality of career-related learning in schools, colleges, and the workplace for all individuals.

Department of Education Office of Vocational and Adult Education
This site offers useful information related to high schools,career and technology education, community colleges, Adult Education & Literacy.

National Center on Education and the Economy
This site contains current information and research on new approaches to education. It is well worth the visit.

SCANS 2000: The Workforce Skills Website
The SCANS 2000 Center is comprised of an interdisciplinary research group at the Johns Hopkins University Institute for Policy Studies The central theme in all our work is creating a workforce development system that properly prepares workers to compete in the international economy of the 21st century.

US Department of Education National Programs
The Division of National Programs supports the design and delivery of high-performance education that is linked to the workplace. The Division's activities include providing grants to special populations, conducting research, and providing technical assistance to the career/technical and adult education communities.

America's Career InfoNet
This site contains occupational information that will assist individuals in employment searches and increase overall understanding of the job market.

America's Job Bank
The America's Job Bank computerized network links state Employment Service offices to provide job seekers with the largest pool of active job opportunities available anywhere. For employers it provides rapid, national exposure for job openings. In addition to the Internet, the job openings found in America's Job Bank are available on computer systems in public libraries, colleges and universities, high schools, shopping malls, transition offices on military bases worldwide, and other places of public access.

American Counseling Association

American School Counselor Association
The American School Counselor Association is the national organization that represents the profession of school counseling. ASCA focuses on providing professional development, enhancing school counseling programs, and researching effective school counseling practices. Our mission is to promote excellence in professional school counseling and the development of all students. This site contains many links to resources for school counselors.

Bridges Transitions
This commercial site is an online school-wide career development program. You can take a guided tour and sign up for a free trial. Click on American Version and then click on Guests, Free Trial & Guided Tour. The full service is available campus-wide with a site license fee.

Career Currents
Bridges.com Free E-Zine Subscription Find Page

Career Parent Magazine
Career Parent Magazine gives you tools to help your kids develop skills and knowledge about themselves, career alternatives, career and life planning, personal management and contributing to their community.

Career Pathways
A fun career exploration site developed by the University of Idaho.

ECOS (Education and Career Opportunity System)
This commercial site is an online career and college planning tool for students and administrators. A guided tour is available online.

ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services
Educational Resources Information Center Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services: University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Education

Getting Ready for College Early
An online handbook for parents of students in the middle and junior high school years.

Net Temps
A commercial job placement site, Net Temps is an Internet recruiting center for the Staffing industry. Net-Temps brings together the world's leading staffing firms with the best candidates for contract assignments and direct placement.

Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

Preparing Your Child for College
A Department of Education Resource Book for Parents 2000 Edition

Students to Jobs
The mission of StudentsToJobs.com is to bring together the resources needed for Bell County students to see a clear path of what local education is available to achieve good paying jobs that are needed in Bell County.

Texas Business & Education Coalition
In 1989, TBEC was formed by Texas business leaders to engage with educators in a long-term effort to improve public education in Texas.

Texas Career Development Resources
This is the best site for labor market information in Texas. Formerly called SOICC, the mandate for CDR is to support the uniformity of labor market data products, coding systems and related information, to encourage the coordination in the production and use of labor market data among education training entities, and to promote the development and dissemination of new and existing data to enhance program planning and job seeker effectiveness.

Think College
A Department of Education site

Human Options

Teachers Net

The New York Times Learning Network

Academic Innovations
The developer and distributor of the acclaimed Career Choices curriculum. (commercial site)

Activity Based Supplies
Commercial site for hands on science and technology products for young people.

Agency for Instructional Technology
AIT is a nonprofit education organization established in 1962 to develop, acquire, and distribute quality technology-based resources and to provide leadership to the educational technology policy community.

Bellnet Technology Network
This site is a wonderful source of everything from curriculum designs, research information and class activities to course offerings for the Bellnet Distance Learning System.

Business Coalition for Education Reform
The Business Coalition for Education Reform (BCER) is made up of 13 national business-led organizations and 400 state and local business-education coalitions that coordinate their efforts to increase the academic achievement of all students by promoting business involvement in education at the national, state and local levels. To do so, the partners leverage resources and expertise; build partnerships to help states and communities learn from each other's experiences; and provide technical assistance to a growing network of state and local coalitions.

ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges
As part of their efforts to disseminate information on education, this site will provide you with information on services and the ERIC system in general, links to organizations working with community colleges, and free publications in the Virtual Library.

International Center for Leadership in Education
In response to a nationwide need to educate students more effectively, the International Center for Leadership in Education was established in 1991. Under the leadership of Dr. Willard R. Daggett Ed.D.,the International Center serves as a catalyst for change for schools, districts and states seeking to improve their education systems.

League for Innovation
The League for Innovation in the Community College is a non-profit educational consortium of leading community colleges organized to stimulate innovation and experimentation in all areas of community college development. Founded in 1968 the League serves as a catalyst, project incubator, and experimental laboratory for community colleges throughout the United States and Canada.

National Alliance of Business
The National Alliance of Business is a national business organization focused on increasing student achievement and improving the competitiveness of the workforce. Our 5,000 members include Fortune 500 companies, their CEO's and senior executives, educators, and business-led coalitions.

Technology and Education Reform
This site is sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, US Department of Education. It is a nice source page for information about reform and current trends in technology education.

Temple Area Home Builders Association
Organizational site which includes educational opportunities.

The Institute for Women in Trades, Technology, and Science
IWITTS provides training, e-strategies, publications and technical assistance to the education system and employers to integrate women into technology and law enforcement careers.