directories

Explains to teachers, librarians and parents how children go about searching the Web, and presents evaluative profiles of search engines, subject directories, and portals for kids.

Profiles over three hundred American colleges and universities, providing information on academics, student life, athletics, distinguished alumni, admissions, financial aid, post-graduate success, and related topics, and featuring quotations and statistics on student composition, class sizes, admissions rates, deadlines, costs, and more.

Offers advice on how to apply for financial aid, features step-by-step instructions for filling out a simplified FAFSA form, and looks at the financial aid profiles of some three thousand colleges, universities, and technical schools.

Profiles colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland featuring information on the academic climate, social and extracurricular scenes, admissions requirements, and financial aid deadlines of each institution, and lists schools the author believes provide the best educational value.

Profiles 382 colleges considered to be the best based on polls of students, and ranks them within sixty-two categories, such as academics, administration, quality of life, politics, demographics, town life, extracurriculars, and the social scene.

Presents practical, effective strategies and ideas to help students and parents pay for college.

Provides information on more than five thousand national and state recreation areas in North America, and includes state maps, facilities available at each listing, addresses, phone numbers, and websites.

A guide to finding information on ninety-nine topics, designed to help students through the research process, each with search terms; definitions and explanations of the topic; background and statistics; lists of library subject headings, newspapers and magazines, and agencies to contact; and Internet addresses.

Highlights fifty colleges that provide research, internship, and hands-on learning programs both in the classroom and in the real world.

Provides contact information and submission guidelines for markets for writers, covering book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests, awards, and literary agents, and includes listings of professional organizations, sample query letters, and other resources.