With the swearing in of a new President, there is a also the assignment of a new Cabinet. The Secretary for Education was selected recently, and people are now turning to the Department of Education for various reasons. The government website for the Department of Education is http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml. Through this internet portal, people will be able to access links that will tell them how to learn how to get money for college. Through other links, people can learn how to find grant opportunities that would not be known if the Department of Education had not talked of it on the site.

• There are many money saving opportunities available on government hosted

websites. Many of these opportunities will lead to avenues of higher learning and some will save people hours of research time. People are turning to the Department of Education for help and many will come back more than once in their life too. Some educators will use the Department of Education website to find educational resources that will help them be better teachers in the classroom. Those resources might deal with Health and Physical Science or the Language Arts or Mathematics. These resources are available in printable views or can be selected for viewing in an alphabetical view.

• School administrators are turning to the Department of Education for access to

it's information centers. A school president might need clarification of grants and contracts, or they might be newly appointed and need a refresher course in the student financial aid program. Some administrators might find access to research and statistics very helpful if those figures would help bolster selling points of new programs that they needed backers for. Most of all, school administrators will find the policy and guidance resources as the most helpful in carrying out day to day operations.

• Most parents might be interested in learning about the Nation's Report Card that

is listed on the Department of Education site. The research and statistics offered here are from the National Center for Education Statistics and cover subject areas such as arts, civics, economics, mathematics, reading, geography, science, U.S. history, and writing. Parents can supply their children with sample questions for tests, or analyze data from any State profile. These figures might help a parent select a school district when buying a home, or select a school based on its testing scores within a specified State.

Parents are turning to the Department of Education website so that they can also test themselves against real questions from past assessments taken by students throughout the United States. Those assessments are administered by the website link using the NAEP Data Explorer tools. These tests cover over 2000 questions that were on past assessments. After taking the assessment tests, many parents will gain a better understanding of what their child is facing in school each year in the various subjects they take each quarter. Some might want to read the actual responses left by students in past years or see the results of the most recent assessment.