Maryland Education Resources

Maryland Education Resources

Advocates For Children And Youth : Giving Every Maryland Child A Voice
ACY is a private, statewide organization that monitors the public agencies that control Maryland's schools. Also an active lobbying force, the group makes policy recommendations based on their research.
Catholic Schools: Archdiocese of Baltimore
Look up schools by name for contact information, curriculum, history, and links to those schools that have homepages. The site encompasses schools from Pre-K to college-level.
Association of Independent Maryland Schools (AIMS)
AIMS is a voluntary organization of private, independent elementary and college preparatory schools in Maryland and the District of Columbia. All 105 member schools work together to improve education for their more than 38,000 students.
Baltimore Reads
Baltimore Reads is the umbrella organization for literacy in Baltimore City. It provides literacy programs for elementary school children and adults.
Calvert County Literacy Council
The literacy councils in Charles County and St. Mary's County sharing a grant from the Maryland State Department of Education. The grant will be used for training, recruitment, books, materials, volunteer coordination and marketing. It has allowed the three Southern Maryland literacy councils to work together as the Southern Maryland Literacy Partnership.
Charles County Literacy Council
The goal of the Charles County Literacy Council (CCLC) is to provide FREE help to Adult Non-Readers (Adults needing assistance in reading, writing, math and other skills) throughout Charles County.
College Scholarships, and Financial Page, Maryland
Contains information (including contact information) about Maryland colleges, universities and scholarships...including links to ten FREE, online scholarship searches.
College Savings Plans of Maryland
State Program designed to help families save for college eduction.
Consortium for Minorities in Teaching Careers
The Consortium for Minoritites in Teaching careers is a program designed to identify, recruit, and prepare high potential pre-college minority students to enter college and select a career in teaching.
Directory of Maryland's Adult Literacy Services
From the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. Click on the county you are living in to see if they offer ESL classes (and where).
Distance Education, University System of Maryland
Tailored for busy working people, USM distance education opportunities can help you reach your educational goals.
Educational Activities at Space Telescope Science Institute
Education and Job Training From CareerNet
Finding the right type of education at the right time is a difficult task. Many educational services are now on-line providing internet users with fast and convenient service. Learn more about educational services locally, nationally and around the world.
English Language Schools in Maryland
Web directory for international students, executives, and professionals.
ESL Schools and Programs in Maryland
Online directory produced by CampusLane Publications.
The Family Education Network, Inc.
The Family Education Network, Inc. is a nonprofit organization of parents and professionals working to make family life easier. It's about doing the right things with children, partners, and ourselves.
General Educational Development (GED) Tests in Maryland
The GED tests are given the second Saturday of every month at various locations throughout the state of Maryland. For more information and eligibilty requirements, call (410)767-0538.
Hillel of Greater Baltimore
Hillel of Greater Baltimore is dedicated to bringing exciting, meaningful and celebratory Jewish experience to all Jewish members of the university world. They serve students and campus communities at Goucher College, Johns Hopkins University, Towson University, UMBC, and Graduate and Professional students throughout the Greater Baltimore area.
Home Schooling in Maryland
The Home School Legal Defense Association is a non-profit advocacy organization established to defend and advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their children and to protect family freedoms.
Homeschool Guide to Southern Maryland
It supports homeschool families in the 5 county area of Southern Maryland (Anne Arundel, Prince George's, Calvert, Charles, and St. Mary's counties) and has created an extensive website with information for homeschoolers both on the web and in the area.
How to Get a GED in Maryland
This Web guide tells you how to get a GED (General Equivalency Diploma), or high school equivalency.
Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is an independent federal agency that fosters leadership, innovation and a lifetime of learning. IMLS supports all types of museums, from art and history to science and zoos, and all types of libraries and archives, from public and academic to research and school.
Literacy Council of Frederick County
The Literacy Council of Frederick County, Inc. is a non-profit, non-sectarian educational organization of volunteers dedicated to helping fellow adult residents improve their language skills.
Literacy Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, Inc.
The Literacy Council of Montgomery County is working to help her fellow residents and neighbors learn English and improve these statistics that 40-44 million adults in the United States, can't read above a fifth grade level (National Adult Literacy Survey 1993). Montgomery County's rate is better than that, but the problem still exists.
Maryland Adult Literacy Resource Center at UMBC
The Center's lending library contains a collection of materials covering ABE, Computer-Assisted Instruction, Correctional Education, Employability Skills, Family Literacy, GED, Homeless Literacy, Learning Disabled Adults, Life Skills, Math, Pre-GED, Reading, School-to-Work, and Workplace Literacy.
Maryland Business Roundtable for Education
Founded in 1992, the Maryland Business Roundtable for Education (MBRT) is a coalition of more than 100 leading employers that have made a long-term commitment to support education reform and improve student achievement in Maryland.
Maryland Community College Business Training Network (MCC/BTN
Maryland Community Colleges' Business Training Network (MCC BTN) is a network of the sixteen community colleges in the State of Maryland. It will now provide a single point of reference or a portal on the web for the business community that enables them to locate training available from Maryland Community Colleges.
Maryland Digital Library
Maryland Digital Library (MDL) is a gateway to electronic resources available to students and faculty at universities and colleges across the state of Maryland.
Maryland Higher Education Commission
MHEC is the State of Maryland's higher education coordinating board responsible for establishing statewide policies for Maryland public and private colleges and universities and for-profit career schools.
Maryland Home Education Association
Gives information pertinent to Maryland Homeschoolers. The bylaws for homeschooling in Maryland are given as well as advice on how to get started, networking and curriculum.
Maryland Homeschooling
A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling
Maryland Home Improvement Exam
Provides candidate information brochure, information on where to purchase a study manual, exam application, and other licensure information. From Experior Assessments, LLC, a licensing and examinations service provider.
Maryland K-12
It is devoted to the needs and interests of the Maryland K-12 teachers, media specialists, school administrators, and education agency personnels by the University of Maryland.
Maryland Online
MarylandOnline (MOL) is a consortium of Maryland colleges and universities offering certificate and degree programs in a principally online format. One can participate in Maryland Online programs from any location.
Maryland Prepaid College Trust
The mission of this organization is to provide a simple, convenient way for Maryland and District of Columbia families to save in advance for college and reduce future reliance on loans.
Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA)
The Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association, organized in 1946, is made up of 177 public high schools throughout Maryland.
Maryland Science Center
NASA Student Involvement Program (NSIP)
This is a national program of five competitions that links students in grades 3 -12 directly with NASA's diverse and exciting mission of exploration, research, and discovery.
Maryland School for the Blind
The Maryland School for the Blind (MSB) is a private, nonprofit school serving children from infancy to age 21 who are blind, visually impaired and multiply disabled. MSB serves students from every county of Maryland and Baltimore City.
Maryland Schools and ESL Programs
This site provides a list of Maryland schools that offer English language programs, as well as study material for people learning English as a second language.
Maryland State Teachers Association (NEA)
NEA represents over 2.7 million public education teachers, support professionals, retired educators, school administrators, higher education faculty, and future educators.
Maryland Student Service Alliance
The mission of the Maryland Student Service Alliance is to institutionalize high quality service-learning for students in all Maryland K-12 public schools, and to encourage its application in schools across the United States.
National Center For Family Literacy
The National Center for Family Literacy is a non-profit organization supporting family literacy services for families across the United States through programming, training, research, advocacy and dissemination
National Directory of Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Institutions
It includes the list of all colleges in Maryland that provide this discipline
National Wildlife Visitor Center, Laurel, MD
onLINE: The Librarian's Network for the Essential Curriculum
It is the official website for the Departments of Secondary and Elementary Curriculum and Instruction. From this page students in Maryland have access to Online Research Modules which were recognized by the Maryland Department of Education and the Maryland Business Roundtable as one of six "effective practices in the use of technology in Maryland."
Oral History Resources
This website is a portal to oral history resources on the Internet which aid students and teachers with oral history techniques, sample oral histories, and connections to oral history projects/collections at many university libraries.
Partners in Adult Continuing Education
PACE was created to provide Maryland employers and their employees ready access to the full spectrum of continuing education options available to them.
Prince George's County Literacy Council
The Literacy Council of Prince George's County, MD, Inc., is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and advocating literacy in the County.
Public Schools in Maryland : A website for Parents by Parents
Created by and for parents with children in public schools in the state of Maryland, this is a way to organize links to schools by their "feeder systems", showing the elementary schools and middle schools that feed into a high school.
The Reading Page
The purpose of this site is to link Maryland educators to reading resources such as reading research, MSDE (Maryland State Dept. of Education) reading indicators, motivation techniques, and strategies for the teaching of reading.
School Closing Information
Displays the current operating status of K12 Public Schools, Private Schools, Colleges, Child Care Centers, Community Groups and Youth-related Sports Organizations. In addition, this site sends important time-sensitive information via email.
School Improvement in Maryland
This site has been created to help schools analyze their state assessment data and guide them in making data-based instructional decisions that would support improved performance for all students.
School Library Facts
This website is about school libraries, particularly the collection analysis done in BCPS (Baltimore County Public Schools) . It includes links to research in the field as to how school libraries effect student achievement, current federal legislation, and answers to frequently asked questions about the school library program.
St. Mary's County Literacy Council
Science in the Cinema
Science in the Cinema is a FREE film festival. Each time a film with a medical science-related theme will be shown in its entirety. Following the film, a guest speaker with expertise in the film's subject area will comment on the science depicted in the film and take questions from the audience.
Southern Maryland Higher Education Center
The Southern Maryland Higher Education Center offers graduate and upper-division professional degree programs to the professional workforce of the three-county region
Thinkport
Thinkport is a resource for Maryland educators, families, and communities from Maryland Public Television and Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education.
The Training Source
It is committed to the utilization of funds from fee-based activities to provide training services to unemployed citizens and others who cannot afford to pay for training.It also offers Computer Skills, Training Services, Training Needs Assessments,and Job Preparation and Placement Services.
Wicomico County School Zone
Wicomico County School Zone was created as an effort to connect teachers, parents, and students in Wicomico County.

Economic Education:

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
The 5th District web site is also targeted at Marylanders (as a member state of the Federal Reserve Fifth District). This site offers general and detailed information on the Federal Reserve System and the economy, both national and local. Additionally, there is economic education material featured along with details about the Fed Challenge competition, a high school economics competition that teaches students about monetary policy.

Professional Certification:

DHMH - Health Professional Licensing Boards
DLLR - Occupational And Professional Licensing
Maryland Board Of Nursing - Online Renewal
Maryland Board Of Physicians - Online Renewal