General education research

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Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)
      http://www.acer.edu.au/
ACER is the premier educational research and development agency in Australia. It is an independent, national agency established in 1930. It's mission is to provide high quality educational research, services and materials, and to make educational policy and practice more effective.

British Education Internet Resource Catalogue
      http://brs.leeds.ac.uk/~beiwww/beirc.htm
..."designed to aid the identification of useful internet resources by people with a professional or scholarly interest in education or training. Provides descriptions and hyperlinks for evaluated internet resources within an indexed database. The collection aims to list and describe significant information resources and services specifically relevant to the study, practice and administration of education at a professional level. The primary audience comprises researchers, teachers and students in the field of education in the higher and further education sectors of the United Kingdom but its value will stretch beyond those groups."

National Science Foundation. Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR)
      http://www.nsf.gov/dir/index.jsp?org=EHR
This body provides leadership in an effort to improve science, technology, engineering and mathematics education in the United States.

EdNA Online
      http://www.edna.edu.au
..."EdNA Online is a service that aims to support and promote the benefits of the Internet for learning, education and training in Australia. It is organised around Australian curriculum, its tools are free to Australian educators, and it is funded by the bodies responsible for education provision in Australia - all Australian governments."

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