• Happy Birthday, Noah Webster!
  Learn more on the Web about the life of Noah Webster, father of the dictionary (born October 16, 1758). Included -- Dictionary games! Cross-curriculum activities! Skills pages for use across the grades!
• Vocabulary and Spelling: Do Your Students Say 'Boring'?
  Henry Ward Beecher said, "All words are pegs to hang ideas on." If words are pegs, does it follow that the more words we know, the more ideas we may have? True or not, it is hard to argue the fact that a good vocabulary is an asset in life. What greater service can teachers perform than to help students foster their understanding of words? The Internet offers many tools for young etymologists and an abundance of great ideas for teaching vocabulary and spelling. Dig for definitions and pry for pronunciations -- virtual vocabulary has no limits!
• Reading and Writing Center
  Resources, tools and activities for spelling, grammar and more from our Language and Literature Center.
• Great Sites for Teaching about Words
  

Jose Feliciano, blind Grammy Award-winning singer, born (1945)

Charles Kuralt, CBS reporter (On the Road) born (1934)

• Education News
  Resources from our Education News Center

Robert Wise, Academy Award-winning director (The Sound of Music, West Side Story) born (1914)

Roger Maris, Yankee outfielder HR champ (61 in 1961) born (1934)

• Take Them Out to the Ball Game!
  When baseball fever strikes, these activities from Education World can be the perfect antidote. Included: A stadium full of activities and links to team sites, baseball math sites, cross-curricular projects -- and even the famous Abbott and Costello "Who's On First?" script!
• The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
  

US Supreme Court ruled that James Meredith, whose application to the University of Mississippi had been rejected because he was African American, should be admitted to the university (1962)

• Civil Rights Movement

Indian Congress voted to back Gandhi's non-cooperation campaign (1920)

John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council Va. (1608)

Commodore Oliver H. Perry defeated the British in the Battle of Lake Erie (1813)

• War of 1812
  Resources from our database.

Elias Howe of Massachusetts patented the sewing machine (1846)

Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee, Alabama, after President Kennedy sent Army troops to end a standoff with Governor George Wallace (1963)

• Black History on the Internet
  Explore the best Black History sites for primary, middle, and high school level students. Activity and lesson ideas included!
• Law: Civil Rights & Liberties
• Civil Rights Movement
• States Step Up Efforts to Reduce School Segregation
  In response to a state Supreme Court ruling that children in Hartford’s urban schools were receiving an inferior and unequal education, Connecticut stepped up efforts to improve the education of urban schools.