Spotsylvania County Schools does not maintain or necessarily endorse the websites listed below. All of the following links will take users directly to a third party website.
COLLEGE INFORMATION
FastWeb: www.fastweb.com -- students can search over $1 billion dollars in scholarship money
Making It Count: www.makingitcount.com -- designed to help students focus on personal attributes and to familiarize students with college application techniques and strategies
ACT: www.actstudent.org -- helps students sign-up for ACT testing.
College Board: www.collegeboard.com -- This organization administers the SAT. Students can sign up to take the SAT through this website. This organization also provides students with optional test prep skills.
FAFSA: www.fafsa.ed.gov -- Through the FAFSA, students can apply for federal financial aid.
www.collegeview.com-- site gives quick college searches
www.commonapp.org -- apply online, download applications used by hundreds of colleges and universities.
www.campustours.com -- take a virtual tour of colleges and universities
www.fairtest.org -- this site gives a list of schools that do not use the SAT I or ACT scores for admitting students into Bachelor Degree Programs.
www.testprep.com -- Free SAT test preparation information
CAREER INFORMATION
Virginia Work Force Center – www.VaEmploy.com
America’s Career Information Network- www.acinet.org
Career Magazine – www.careermag.com
Career Net- http://careernet.4jobs.com
Career Overview – www.careeroverview.com
Career Builder- www.careerbuilder.com
Career Site- www.careersite.com
Mapping your future- www.mappingyourfuture.org
Bureau of Labor Statistics- www.bls.gov
U.S. Census Bureau- www.census.gov
U.S. Department of Labor- www.dol.gov
Federal Job Digest-www.jobsfed.com
Job Postings- www.jobpostings.net
Job Bank USA- www.jobbankusa.com
ADDITIONAL WEBSITES THAT MAY BE OF INTEREST
America’s Promise is the Alliance for Youth led by General Colin Powell, is dedicated to mobilizing individuals, groups and organizations from every part of American life, to build and strengthen the character and competence of our youth. http://www.americaspromise.org
ASCA (American School Counselor Association) allows the reader to search resources suggested by school counselors. http://www.schoolcounselor.org/
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Council for Exceptional Children contains news and information about special education and gifted education, events, training and job links for educators. http://www.cec.sped.org
Tips and Strategies for Guidance Counselors has worksheets, lesson plans, strategies, and links for guidance counselors and teachers.
http://www.counselorandteachertips.com/
Bureau for At Risk Youth lists innovative guidance tools along with resources that help today's youth cope with difficult issues that face them. http://www.at-risk.com/
A Resource Guide to Bullying is a book list of effective stories and resources for the subject of bullying.
http://www.state.sc.us/dmh/schoolbased/bullying.htm
Positive Discipline gives methods of discipline for ages K-6. Information focuses on positive discipline.
http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/positive.discipline.html
Reach for the Stars Getting Parents on Your Side details pointers to help you get and keep parents working with you for the benefit of the students.
http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/siliconvalley/1596/id23.htm
Parent Conferences shares considerations and a list of issues to consider before you begin parent conferences.
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3713.html
The Education and Career Center (Peterson's, Inc.) brings together, at one central address, consistently organized information about educational opportunities at all levels, and gives individuals the ability to search Peterson's databases as well as to request more information, apply, and interact in other ways with faculty and administrators at educational institutions. http://www.petersons.com/
The Financial Aid Information Page is a huge, comprehensive, and FREE site was created by Mark Kantrowitz, author of The Prentice Hall Guide to Scholarships and Fellowships for Math and Science Students, and is sponsored by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA). http://www.finaid.org/
Princeton Review shares information about admissions and financial aid, this site features an on-line college matchmaker for students, snapshot information on specific schools, and more. Check out the tester for accurate, full-length simulations of computerized exams like the GMAT and GRE or get practice for pencil-and-paper tests like the SAT. http://www.review.com/
U.S. Department of Education provides the breaking news on the national education front, and also has a searchable ERIC Digests, education statistics (NCES), Federal Student Financial Assistance, FAFSA on the Web, IDEA '97, and more. http://www.ed.gov/
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