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Career Cruising
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Career Cruising is a comprehensive bilingual (English and Spanish) interactive multimedia source which features profiles and information on hundreds of occupations, 2 and 4 year college and universities, and financial aid, including scholarship opportunities. more info
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Career Resource Site - Wet Feet
Find Wet Feet Insider Guides, Career & Industry guides, Employer Guides, Videos and more. Link to job and resume information.(Note: To download a guide, copy the password which displays within brackets: guides will not open without the password and won't reopen without same password after download.) more info
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Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education Online is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. Published every weekday. more info
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Education Full Text
A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles of at least one column in length from English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the United States and elsewhere. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996.
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ERIC (CSA)
The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs.
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ERIC (EBSCO)
U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database. Citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals. more info
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ERIC Document Reproduction Service
From the U.S. Department of Education, ready access to documents in the education field. more info
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Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Offers detailed descriptions of more than 2,000 popular jobs in 94 industries, as well as over 23,000 resources to help people select, plan, and advance their careers. more info
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LearningExpressLibrary
Test preparation materials and interactive practice exams that will help people improve their scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams.
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Mango Languages
Learn a new language with this interactive database that provides step by step lesson plans for nine different languages. This database features ESL lessons for Brazilian Portuguese, Polish and Spanish speakers. A text translator is also provided. more info
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Private School Review
Provides profiles of private elementary day schools & high schools more info
Professional Development Collection EBSCO
Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 450 full-text journals, designed for professional educators. more info
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Regents Exam Prep Center
Created by the Oswego City School District, this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. This project is supported by a federally-funded Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant. more info
Small Business Resource Center
Covers major areas of starting and operating a business, including sample business plans, how-to articles, overviews, and directories. more info
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Vault
Premier career resource. Find career guides, industry guides, company and employer profiles, topics guides and more. Industry overviews bring you inside 40 top industries, from investment management to manufacturing. Find details on career path, salary ranges, industry outlook and more. more info
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