• Working With Parents
  Resources and tips for educators on including parents in the education process - from our Preservice Educators' Center
• Parent Involvement in Schools!
  Parent involvement in schools is much more than parent conferences and PTOs… In this week's edition of Education World, read about practical ways in which schools are involving parents! Learn about parent involvement strategies that are working for others - and that could work for you!
• Project Appleseed
  Project Appleseed is a not-for-profit campaign for improvement in public schools via increased parental involvement.
• Home To School Connection
  Resources to help bridge the gap between the classroom and family home by promoting better parent-teacher communication and understanding - from our Parents Center.

Aaron Copland, American composer (Fanfare for the Common Man, Appalachian Spring, Rodeo) born (1900)

• Making the Case for Music Education
• Energy In The Air: Sounds From The Orchestra
• Music Center
  Resources and tools from our Arts Center.

Claude Monet, French painter who pioneered the impressionist style in his landscapes, born (1840)

• Artcyclopedia: The Fine Art Search Engine
  A comprehensive database of museum quality fine art that can be viewed on the internet.

Robert Fulton, builder of first commercial steamboat, born (1765)

• Great Sites for Teaching About...Inventors and Inventions

Edward White, American astronaut (Gemini 4), born (1930)

• Space Sciences
  Resources and tools from our Science Center.

Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister after it gained its independence (1947-64), born (1889)

Henri Dutrochet, French physiologist who discovered and named the process of osmosis, born (1776)

• Science Center 9-12
  

Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (Principles of Geology), born (1797)

Frederick Jackson Turner, historian and educator (The Significance of the Frontier in American History), born (1861)

Booker T. Washington, educator and reformer, first president and principal founder of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), died at 59 (1915)

• Higher Education Center
  Resources and tools from our Higher Education Center
• Ten Activities Celebrate Achievements of African Americans!
  With the assistance of the Web, you too can incorporate activities that reflect the positive impact black Americans have had on our nation's history.

Saki (H. H. Munro), Scottish short story writer ("The Open Window"), killed in action in World War I. (1914)

Louis Timothee, first professional librarian in America, hired in Philadelphia (1732)

• Librarians Online!
• Research Center
  Reference tools from the Education World Research Center

"Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, first published in New York (1851)

• 9-12 Literature & Poetry Center
  Resources and tools from our Language & Literature Center

Massive German air raid destroyed most of Coventry, England during WWII (1940)

• Great Sites for Teaching About…World Wars I and II
  Best on the Web for teaching about the World Wars
• A World at War
  Education World presents "The World Wars," the latest article in our year long Millennium Series

First paying passengers traveled on the new rail service through the Channel Tunnel linking England and France (1994)