Rod Gammon's Educational Resource List

http://www.ed.gov/911anniversary
US Government-provided resources to support covering 9/11 in the classroom.

http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf
A 2009 (revised September 2010) report by the United States' Department of Education. Based on a meta analysis of more than 1,000 online learning studies, the researchers found in essence that blended learning shows greater gains than face to face-only learning.

http://www.corestandards.org/
From the website: "(United States) Governors and state commissioners of education from across the country committed to joining a state-led process to develop a common core of state standards in English-language arts and mathematics for grades K-12. The first step of this initiative is developing college- and career-readiness standards followed by K-12 standards."

http://edtechfuture.org/
From the website: "The U.S. Department of Education is developing a new National Educational Technology Plan to provide a vision for how information and communication technologies can help transform American education. The plan will provide a set of concrete goals that can inform state and local educational technology plans as well as inspire research, development, and innovation. A draft plan is expected in early 2010."

http://projects.aadlcolab.org/scourse/2004_3rdEd/_viewer/index.html

From the website: "...an online self-tutorial for academic, business, industry or government professionals interested in learning about standards for interoperability and reuse in e-learning."

It is free and updated for SCORM 2004 3E. You can also download the SCORM package here:
http://www.academiccolab.org/scormschool/101

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is a United States government Department of Defense initiative for the standardization of e-learning. Its most famous result is probably SCORM.

ADL SCORM Home page: http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/default.aspx

Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Distributed_Learning

http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2009/06/06262009.html

From the website: "Providing further evidence of the tremendous opportunity to use technology to improve teaching and learning, the U.S. Department of Education today released an analysis of controlled studies comparing online and face-to-face instruction."

From the website: "A free site for adults to: Learn English, Improve basic reading, writing, speaking, and life skills."

US government's press release: http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/11/11072008.html

Article on large research study about the "Net generation"

EdWeek article considering the impact of the current financial climate and future funding of US education.