Pro Teacher
Useful for: teachers
Price / Fee: Free
Type: News/Blogs
Description: A professional community for teachers. The site includes a chat room, blogs, and useful resources. There is no membership fee, but if you join rather than just visit, you can create a profile and have private discussions with other teachers.

A to Z Teacher Stuff
Useful for: teachers
Price / Fee: Free
Type: Lesson plans
Description: A site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Includes: lesson plans, thematic units, discussion forums, downloadable teaching materials (including eBooks), worksheets, and more. There is no fee, but if you join you can get the newsletter.

Yahoo Kids
Useful for: students
Price / Fee: Free
Type: News/Blogs
Description: A kid-friendly search engine. The site also has homework help and current events sections. Perhaps the best thing about this site is the news section, which addresses all top stories in clear, easy language.

Education Sector
Useful for: orgs
Type: History/Government
Description: Education Sector is an independent education policy think tank devoted to developing innovative solutions to the nation’s most pressing educational problems. We are nonprofit and nonpartisan, both a dependable source of sound thinking on policy and an honest broker of evidence in key education debates throughout the United States.

Eduwonk.com
Useful for: orgs
Price / Fee: Free
Type: News/Blogs
Description: Eduwonk is a blog written by Andrew Rotherham, co-founder and co-director of Education Sector. Occasional guest bloggers will also post their thoughts.
Tags: blog, news, articles

NASBE Board Bulletin
Price / Fee: Free
Type: News/Blogs
Description: Observations, insights, and commentary on news and policy developments in American education. The National Association of State Boards of Education, NASBE, exists to serve and strengthen State Boards of Education in their pursuit of high levels of academic achievement for all students.
Tags: blog, news, articles

Board Buzz
Useful for: parents
Price / Fee: Free
Type: News/Blogs
Description: Blog by the national School Boards Association

this Week in Education
Useful for: parents
Price / Fee: Free
Type: News/Blogs
Description: Written by former Senate education staffer and journalist Alexander Russo, This Week in Education covers education news, policymakers, and trends with a distinctly political edge.

New York Times education Section
Useful for: parents
Price / Fee: Free limited access
Type: News/Blogs
Description: The latest on education news.

The New York College Directory
Useful for: students
Type: College Research Guides
Description: What's Your Interest? Find Schools/Colleges by Subject

The State Education Department
Useful for: parents
Price / Fee: Free
Type: Teacher/Administrator training/professional development
Description: Information about the New York school system

New York City Department of Education
Useful for: parents
Price / Fee: Free
Type: Teacher/Administrator training/professional development
Description: The Department of Education is dedicated to connecting families to the vital information they need about their schools.

Edspresso
Price / Fee: Free
Type: News/Blogs
Description: Your daily addiction for breaking news, commentary and debate on real education reform

Educated Nation | Higher Education Blog
Useful for: parents
Price / Fee: Free
Type: News/Blogs
Description: News, humor, advice, and opinion on education and career, graduate school and college degrees.
Tags: blog, articles, news

The Chalkboard
Price / Fee: Free
Type: News/Blogs
Description: Keeping an eye on public education
Tags: blog, news, articles

NYC Educator
Useful for: parents
Price / Fee: Free
Type: News/Blogs
Description: Blog on Education
Tags: blog, news, articles

Education Week
Price / Fee: Free limited access
Type: News/Blogs
Description: Editorial Projects in Education Inc. publishes Education Week, American education's newspaper of record, Teacher Magazine, edweek.org and Agent K-12. We also publish periodic special reports on issues ranging from technology to textbooks, as well as books of special interest to educators.

Teachers Network
Type: Teacher/Administrator training/professional development
Description: Professional development for teachers

Thinkfinity
Useful for: teachers
Price / Fee: Free
Type: Lesson plans
Description: Thinkfinity contains more than 55,000 authoritative educational and literacy resources for teachers, students and community programs including standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and web sites. Thinkfinity also includes best-in-class evidence-based literacy resources such as the Life Span Literacy Matrix from the Verizon Literacy Network.

Verizon Foundation Resource Center
Useful for: orgs
Type: Teacher/Administrator training/professional development
Description: Through the Verizon Foundation Resource Center, we are pleased to offer a unique suite of online tools that give nonprofit managers access to best-in-class national training partners and business resources. Our mission is to leverage the power of network technology to help local and national nonprofit organizations enhance their management capabilities in order to increase their capacity to create sustainable positive change.