WEB SITES PAGE

EDUCATION WEB SITES

The place to begin here is with the United States Department of Education:

         http://www.ed.gov/

From here you can go (among other places) to the National Center for Education Statistics at:

         http://nces.ed.gov/

and the Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE) at:

         http://www.ed.gov/offices/OVAE/

Other important education-related sites are:

American Society for Training & Development

          http://www.astd.org/

Community College Research Center (CCRC):

          http://www.tc.columbia.edu/~iee/ccrc/

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL):

          http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall/

Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association:       

          http://www.asanet.org/soe/

WORK WEB SITES

The obvious starting point here in the United States Department of Labor at:

        http://www.dol.gov/

This leads to several important links, each of which is a goldmine in itself.  These include:

Industry and Occupation Classification System:                

                  http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/ioindex.html

A particularly useful site is "WORK AND SOCIETY":

        http://was.pe.kr/english1.htm

International Labour Organization:

        http://www.ilo.org/

National Skill Standards Board:

        http://www.nssb.org/

National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA):

        http://www.icesa.org/

Organizations, Occupations, and Work section of the American Sociological Association:              

                  http://www.campus.northpark.edu/sociology/oow

Statistical Abstract of the United States:              

                  http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical/abstract/us.html

United States Bureau of Labor Statistics:

        http://stats.bls.gov/blshome.htm

United States Bureau of the Census:

        http://www.census.gov

W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research:

        http://www.upjohninst.org

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