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300-399
Social Sciences
College/Career | Child Labor | Civil
Rights | Drugs & Abuse | Drunk
Driving | Gangs | Tobacco |
Fairy Tales & Legends|
FAFSA
http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/
“Free Application for Federal Student Aid opens the door to the federal aid process. Every step you can take gets you closer to achieving your educational goals.”
“The SmartStudent Guide to Financial Aid”
Occupational
Outlook Handbook
http://wwwl.bls.gov/oco/
“The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.”
Oklahoma
Higher Education
http://www.okhighered.org
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
Princeton
Review
http://www.princetonreview.com/
“The Princeton Review helps students achieve ‘Better scores. Better schools.’ The Princeton Review now helps millions of students each year to navigate standardized tests and the college and graduate school admissions process through its courses, books, software and Web sites.”
Child Labor |
By
the Sweat and Toil of Children
http://www.dol.gov/ILAB/media/reports/iclp/sweat6/
sweat6_html/sweat6_chap_1.html
From the US Department of Labor, this site presents its report on international child labor and the US' commitment to eliminate it.
Beyond
Child Labour: Affirming Rights
http://www.unicef.org/pubsgen/beyond-child-labour/
This UNICEF site contains official documents, links to other sites about child labor and children's rights.
Child
Labour
http://www.freethechildren.org/campaigns/labour.html
Articles, real life stories, and information on how you can help stop child labor. From Free the Children, founded by children and addressing children's issues, with actions implemented by children for their peers; it is innovative in its nature. The first goal of Free the Children is to stop the abuse and exploitation of children around the world.
Child
Labor Coalition
http://www.natlconsumersleague.org/clc.htm
From the National Consumers League, this site lets you know what companies are involved in child labor and give you contact information to send those companies your remarks.
Child
Labor in America
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
Photo essay by Lewis W. Hines plus links to more info
Children
in the Fields
http://www.afop.org/children/children.cfm
From the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, this site provides facts about children in the fields and information about eliminating child labor.
Global
March Against Child Labour
http://globalmarch.org/
Find information out about the march, the latest child labor information, and about the lives of child laborers and more.
"The fire at the Triangle Waist Company in New York City, which claimed the lives of 146 young immigrant workers, is one of the worst disasters since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This incident has had great significance to this day because it highlights the inhumane working conditions to which industrial workers can be subjected."
Stolen
Dreams
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/gallery/gallery01.html
From the Gallery of the Harvard School for Public Health. Photographs of children working various jobs in the United States, Mexico, Thailand, Nepal, Bangladesh, Turkey, Morocco, Indonesia, and India.
Youth
& Labor
http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/youthlabor/index.htm
From the US Department of Labor, this site presents the federal guidelines for young people to work. The site includes child labor statistics.
American
Civil Rights Institute
http://www.acri.org/
This civil rights organization site provides information to educate about racial and gender issues.
Civil
Rights Act of 1964
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/laws/majorlaw/civilr19.htm
Full text of the law and what it means.
Civil
Rights Division: Department of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/
U.S. government's site covers historic and recent civil rights issues.
Civil
Rights.org
http://www.civilrights.org
Highlights vital issues in civil rights now.
Law
About Civil Rights and Discrimination: An Overview
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/civil_rights.html
From Cornell University's Legal Information Institute, this site provides federal, state and international material about civil rights
National
Civil Rights Museum: Virtual Tour
http://www.mecca.org/~crights/cyber.html
Arranged in chronological order, this tour leads you through historic American civil rights moments.
Voices
of the Civil Rights Era
http://www.webcorp.com/civilrights/index.htm
Hear sound recordings of Malcolm X, John Kennedy, and Martin Luther King.
Alcohol
& Drug Facts
http://www.health.org/catalog/ordersystemdefault2.asp
The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information features drug facts and an avenue to order pamphlets and other information about drugs.
Chart
of Illegal Drugs
http://www.mninter.net/~publish/drugpage.htm
Inlcudes street names, appearance, and how they are used.
Club
Drugs: Just the Facts
http://www.tcada.state.tx.us/research/facts/clubdrug.html
This site from the Texas Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse discusses the risks of GHB, Ecstacy, Rohypnol, Ketamine, and LSD.
DARE
http://www.dare-america.com/index2.htm
The latest drug statistics from the DEA.
DEA:
Drug Enforcement Administration
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/
Check out drug statistics and facts and more here.
Drug
Abuse Trends
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/factsht/druguse/index.html
The Office of National Drug Control Policy presents statistics on trends in drug-related crimes and looks at drug use trends by individual drug.
Drugs
of Concern
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/concern/concern.htm
The latest drug statistics from the DEA.
Drug-Free
Resource Net
http://www.drugfreeamerica.org/
From Partnership for a Drug-Free America, this site provides FAQs about drugs, and an information database about individual drugs. Includes images of what the drugs look like.
First-Time
Substance Users: In Actual Time
http://www.health.org/research/dynatable/ndu.asp
Broken down by this year, this month, and this day, this site calculates in real time the number of first-time substance users in America.
Get
it Straight: The Facts About Drugs
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/straight/cover.htm
This DEA drug prevention book online provides a lot of information about prevention and why.
A
Guide for Teens
http://www.health.org/govpubs/PHD688/
"Does your friend have an alcohol or other drug problem? What can you do to help?"
The
Learning Trip
http://www.acde.org/learnfolder/learn.html
"Want to know what drugs do to your body? Take The Learning Trip and explore human physiology with Oink and Boink, your lab hosts."
Mind
Over Matter
http://165.112.78.61/MOM/MOMIndex.html
The brain's response to marijuana, opiates, inhalants, hallucinogens, stimulants and steroids.
National
Families in Action
http://www.emory.edu/NFIA/
"National Families in Action is a national drug education, prevention, and policy center based in Atlanta, Georgia. The organization was founded in 1977. Its primary goal is to help families and communities prevent drug abuse."
National
Household Survey on Drug Abuse
http://www.health.org/govstudy/bkd376/
1993-1999 statistics available from this site.
Photographs
of Commonly Used Drugs
http://www.mninter.net/~publish/photos.htm
A collection of photographs of various drugs and links to more information about them.
Regional
Updates
http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/drugs/regional.htm
"Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 1995." Choose a region and you'll have to scroll through information about what the International Narcotics Control Board has been doing , but you will find useful information.
Resources
and Information on Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs
http://www.arf.org/isd/info.html
The Addiction Research Foundation provides statistics, information packages, and more.
Say
It Straight: The Myths of Marijuana
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/sayit/myths.htm
This DEA publication presents medical and scientific evidence, political, social and cultural issues around this subject.
Straight
Facts about Drugs and Alcohol
http://www.health.org/govpubs/rpo884/
The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information gives the facts about drugs and alcohol and how they effect you physically and mentally.
Drinking
& Driving
http://www2.potsdam.edu/SOC/hansondj/DrinkDrive/DrinkingDriving.html
Statistics and other information about drinking and driving.
Drinking
and Driving Data
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/kids/research/drinking/index.cfm
From the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. See how many car crashes were related to alcohol in your state at this site. Also provided, the legal blood alcohol content for each state, number of alcohol-related deaths and the percentage of deaths related to alcohol for each state.
Fight
Drunk Driving
http://www.drunkdriving.com/
"The Campaign Against Drunk Driving (CADD). Our mission is to eliminate drunk driving as the leading cause of death of young Americans."
Impaired
Driving
http://www.ncadd.org/facts/fyidui.html
From the National Institute on Alcohol and Drug Dependence.
Alcohol
Alert: Drinking and Driving
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa31.htm
From the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
MADD:
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
http://www.madd.org/
Includes current news and information about drunk driving as well as detailed drunk driving statistics for youth and deaths. Check out the "Under 21" page for more information about alcohol-related information for teenage boys and girls.
MADD:
Youth in Action
http://www.madd.org/madd_programs/0,1056,2044,00.html
A movement of MADD, this site "features eight new anti-drinking programs for and by youth under the 21 legal drinking age."
National
Commission Against Drunk Driving
http://www.ncadd.com/
"A non-profit organization of private and public sector leaders who are dedicated to minimizing the human and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes by working to make driving impaired a socially unacceptable act."
Public
Policy: Rating the States
http://www.madd.org/stats/0,1056,2424,00.html
From MADD, this site presents "a Report Card on the Nation's Attention to the Problem of Alcohol- and Other Drug-Impaired Driving." Choose a state from the clickable map and learn the total fatalities in a state compared to the US statistic, and the costs involved in drink driving fatalities and injuries.
SADD
Online: Students Against Destructive Decisions
http://www.saddonline.com/default.htm
Find daily updated bulletins and "interaction between SADD Members and Administrators, Educators, and SADD Partners."
Gang
Research
http://www.gangresearch.net/
This site seeks to dispel stereotypes and present research, original documents, and helpful links.
Juvenile
Justice Facts & Figures: Gangs
http://www.ncjrs.org/html/ojjdp/97_ygs/contents.html
This site includes each year's National Youth Gang Survey and includes a summary of gang trends from 1996 to 2000.
Combating
Street Gangs
http://www.ojjdp.ncjrs.org/pubs/reform/ch2_e.html
National Juvenile Justice Reform Initiatives.
The
Coroner's Report
http://www.gangwar.com/
A commercial site produced by a gang researcher and educator. Contains a useful overview of gang history and dynamics.
Gang-Related
Legislation: National Youth Gang Center
http://www.iir.com/nygc/task2_3.htm
Gang-related legislation organized by subject and by state.
Juvenile
Justice Facts & Figures: Publications - Gangs
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/facts/pubs-4.html
Information and statistics about gangs available in HTML or view with Acrobat Reader plug-in.
Juvenile
Justice: Gangs
http://virlib.ncjrs.org/juv.asp?category=47&subcategory=66
Information and statistics about gangs available in HTML or view with Acrobat Reader plug-in.
Mickey's
Place in the Sun: Gangs and Gang Graffiti Resources
http://mickeys-place-in-the-sun.com/gangs.html
A vast collection of annotated links related to gangs.
National
Youth Gang Center
http://www.iir.com/nygc/
Statistics, analysis, legislation, gang program strategies and more.
Action
on Smoking and Health
http://ash.org/
"A National Legal-Action Antismoking Organization Entirely Supported by Tax-Deductible Contributions."
Americans
for Nonsmokers' Rights
http://www.no-smoke.org/
Legislation, educational programs, advocacy and more.
Children
and Tobacco Compliance Checker
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/oc/cftobacco/search.cfm
The FDA present this searchable database to see if any local area businesses have sold tobacco to minors.
Friends
of Tobacco
http://www.fujipub.com/fot/
The latest news, online newsletter, and special reports on tobacco, the industry and the government.
Inside
the Tobacco Deal
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/
Online report from the Frontline PBS program.
NicNet:
The Nicotine and Tobacco Network
http://www.nicnet.org/
Tobacco education program online, latest trends in nicotine and tobacco research, atest developments in tobacco laws and smoking legislation and more. Arizona Program for Nicotine and Tobacco Research at the University of Arizona.
Smoke
in the Eye
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/
Frontline program presents the story behind the breaking tobacco industry documents and more.
Smoke-Free
Ordinances
http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/smokereg.htm
Smoke-free regulations, ordinances, and policies.
Smoking
From All Sides
http://smokingsides.com/
Tobacco history, statistics, tobacco news, health aspects, anti and pro smoking organizations and more.
The
Truth
http://www.thetruth.com/
This national campaign against tobacco use provides information about tobacco, how to get involved, and more.
Native
American Lore Index Page
http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/loreindx.html
Native stories online.
Fairy
Tales from Around the World
http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/