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• Academic Innovations' Career Choices
  
  
• Accounting for High School Students/Instructors
  Would you like to participate in Accounting competition? Try the exams that were given to hundreds of individuals at Accounting Competitions in Illinois.
  
  
• American Cancer Society.
  ACS has developed a web site to help students breeze into the new millennium with healthy minds and bodies. The site, which uses zany activities to entice kids ages 9-14 to envision their futures, seeks to encourage healthy habits and lifestyles.
  
  
• BC Ministry of Education, Skills and Training Home Page
  
  
• BMT, Business Modernization and Technology Corporation
  BMT is a full service resource providing business, manufacturing and technology assistance to small- and medium-sized businesses.
  
  
• BTW, MANAGEMENT GENERAL
  This site is about managing and leading yourself, your organization, and your community.  It features the first Leadership E-books published online; short, provocative "essays" by prominent thinkers on what leaders should be thinking about NOW!; "Top 10 Resources" for leaders; and "Leader-Lines," observations from all over including concise interviews with major thinkers plus a SuperSite of leadership linking URL's.  All subsites encourage audience response and interaction.  The publication focuses on how to manage and lead today and tomorrow!
  
  
• Burrus Research Associates, Inc.
  Get an edge on tomorrow from one of the world's leading technology forecasters and strategists, Daniel Burris. Publications and newsletters available for purchase.
  
  
• Business Professionals of America
  
  
• Business Education Resources
  If you are looking for lesson plans and ideas for your business classes, this is an excellent resource for you. Tonya Skinner, Kansas, is the webmaster. Check this site out.
  
  
• Career Cluster Guide, Third Edition
  The Indiana Career Cluster Guide, Third Edition, is now online in PDF format.  This document contains labor market information and employment projections for business and industry in Indiana.  It is an excellent tool for our new Career Planning and Success Skills course and can be used in other courses as well.
  
  
• Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD)
  The Center for Occupational Research and Development (CORD) in Waco, Texas, is building the Library of the Workplace, a Web site that contains data about the working world, especially about how work relates to a variety of academic studies.  The site will be officially launched this fall with, hopefully, four companies making contributions.  For more information, call Darrnell Hull, 800 972-2766; email: library@cord.org or visit the web site shown above.
  
  
• CISCO Academies
  This site provides information on starting a CISCO Network Administration program and academies.  Business Services and Technology Programs in Indiana are strongly encouraged to consider such programs as a viable part of their curriculum.
  
  
• Communication Briefings
  The practical ideas you'll find in Briefings' newsletters, special reports and videos are guaranteed to help you sharpen workplace skills, work more effectively and get ahead faster on the job.
  
  
• DECA
  
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• Econ-Exchange
  Econ-Exchange is a semi-annual publication for K-12 teachers. Its mission is to promote economic education through insightful essays and exemplary lessons that elementary, middle, and high school teachers may adapt for use in their classroom programs.
  
  
• Electronic Money. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  Electronic Money is one of a series of essays adapted from articles in On Reserve, a newsletter for economic educators published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
  
  
• Entrepreneurship Education
  This Consortium for Entrepreneurship Education site for teachers, instructors, and program developers offers information on available resources, teaching materials, and conferences.
  
  
• Equilibria. The Economic Education Bulletin of the Federal Reserve Bank
  Equilibria strives to make economics approachable, and even entertaining-to give teachers tools with which to hold students' interest. Some articles explore the logic of economics in a format that is simple, but not simplistic. Other articles inform educators of available teaching resources. Equilibria is scheduled to appear once or twice per semester.
  
  
• Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
  A wealth of information on personal finance with publications such as Dollars and Cents, Federal Reserve Structure & Functions, etc.
  
  
• Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
  The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago is one of twelve regional Reserve Banks
  across the U.S. that, together with the Board of Governors in Washington, D.C., and serve as the nation's central bank. There are a number of excellent resources available through this site.
  
  
• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  A wealth of information about the economy, monetary policy, money and banking, the Federal Reserve System, and the role of a central bank.
  
  
• Federal Reserve Education
  A number of economic education tools suchs as FED 101, The Fed Today video, and other helpful materials for business and marekting classes with an emphasis on economics and personal finance. Check it out!
  
  
• Financial Planning Program from National Endowment for Financial Education
  This organization is a nonprofit foundation that develops personal finance materials to meeet a broad range of consumer needs; offers a free financial planning education program to high schools; and underwrites grants, fellowships, and research projects.
  
  
• Financial Literacy 2001
  The Investor Protection Trust, the National Association of Securities Dealers, the North American Securities Administrators Association and the National Institute for Consumer Education have partnered to undertake FL 2001, a national campaign to equip high school students with the tools needed to make important personal finance decisions. One portion of the 2-year long project is committed to the development of a high school curriculum guide on personal finance and investing that will be customized for 48 states participating in the campaign. The guide entitled, Basics of Saving and Investing: A Guide for Teachers will be distributed among teachers of economics, social studies, family and consumer science, mathematics and business. This curriculum guide may be accessed through the above web site.
  
  
• Global Knowledge
  CCIE training packages and Cisco Career Certification training available.
  
  
• House of Representatives
  
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• Insurance Education Foundation seeks to improve the understanding of insurance and its role in society through the education of teachers and students. You will find lesson plans, educational materials, links to other resources, announcements of upcoming programs, promotion of any new materials, and information about workshops and institutes.
  
  
• Indiana CPA Society
  
  
• Indiana Department of Financial Institutions was created by the Indiana Financial Institutions Act of 1933. This act commissioned the Department with the responsibility for supervising commercial banks, trust companies, private banks, savings banks, building and loan associations, credit unions and finance companies incorporated under the laws of the state of Indiana. Since that time the scope of the regulatory responsibilities with which the Department has been charged has been broadened to include the supervision of pawnbrokers, licensees under the Uniform Consumer Credit Code, industrial loan and investment companies, money transmitters, check cashers, budget service companies, and rental-purchase agreement companies. The Consumer Credit section provides documents and information useful to business and marekting teachers.
  
  
• Indiana Department of Labor
  The Bureau of Child Labor administers and enforces Indiana's child labor laws. These regulations apply to every teenager between the ages of 14 and 17 who wants to work in the state. The Bureau inspects employers who hire teenagers to ensure they are complying with the law. It also provides numerous educational materials, such as booklets, videotapes, posters and seminars, to educate teenagers, parents, school officials and employers about the law. If you have any questions about Indiana's child labor laws, please call the Bureau of Child Labor, toll-free, at 1-888-TEEN WORK or email the Bureau of Child Labor.
  
  
• Indiana Department of Workforce Development
  This site contains information and resources regarding Indiana Technical Education. Information on Certificates of Technical Achievement, career information, career clusters, etc. is available at this site.
  
  
• Indiana Spectrum of Information Resources
  Search a collection of commercial databases, provided by EBSCO Information Services Includes full text (and some graphics of 1,000 academic journals, 1,500 general periodicals, 210 periodicals for students, 31 children's magazines, 740 business titles, 1,000 health pamphlets, three encyclopedias and much, much, more.
  
  
• Intelenet
  The Intelenet Commission is authorized to plan, develop, contract, and manage statewide, integrated telecommunications networks and information technology
  services that meet the needs of its authorized users. A telecommunications network enables data, voice, video, and images to be transported from place to place. Authorized users of Intelenet services typically include, but are not limited to, public schools, libraries, colleges and universities, community hospitals, state/local governments, and community networks. The Intelenet Commission coordinates all life-cycle network and services activities with its public-sector partners under the umbrella of the Access Indiana Program.
  
  
• Jump$tart. Financial Smarts for Students
  The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy seeks to improve the personal financial literacy for young adults. Its purpose is to evaluate the financial literacy of young adults; develop, disseminate, and encourage the use of guidelines for grades K-12; and promote the teaching of personal finance.
  
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• MarkED Resource Center/Career Paths
  This site provides excellent curriculum materials for marketing and career education.
  
  
• National Business Education Association
  
  
• National Council on Economic Education
  Our vision--A nation of people who have the knowledge, understanding, and skills to make informed economic choices. The first voluntary standards for teaching economics were introduced by the National Council on Economics Education. Economics Content Standards, rationales, and benchmarks for Grades 4, 8, and 12 are currently available on the above web site along with a number of excellent publications.
  
  
• North Carolina Public Instruction Computer Curriculum
  
  
• Occupational Outlook Handbook
  This site discusses job duties, required training, average salaries, working conditions, and job outlook for about 250 occupations.  Employment in these occupations accounted for about 114 million jobs--86 percent of all jobs in the economy--in 1996.
  
  
• Occupational Outlook Quarterly Online
  OOQ Online is based on the print periodical Occupational Outlook Quarterly and mirrors its print counterpart.
  
  
• Public Debt: Private Asset. Government Debt and Its Role in the Economy.
  Public Debt: Private Asset is one of a series of essays adapted from articles in On Reserve, a newsletter for economic educators published the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
  
  
• Performance Based Accountability
  This new Education Commission of the States Web site contains information and resources on performance-based accountability. It has data on standards, methods of judging performance, rewards for high performance, building capacity and running information management systems. It also has state examples and best practices.
  
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• School To Work
  
  
• School To Work, Indiana
  
  
• Strong Dollar Weak Dollar. Foreign exchange rates and the U.S. economy.
  Strong Dollar, Weak Dollar is one of a series of essays adapted from articles in On Reserve, a newsletter for economic educators published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
  
  
• South-Western Educational Publishing/ITP
  Access the Balance Sheet by going to the Business Education site and clicking on NEWS along the left side of the screen.
  
  
• Surfing the Internet in Business Education
  
  
• Texas Education Network
  
  
• Teaching Business Education
  A publication packed with creative teaching ideas, tips, and techniques for the business educator.
  
  
• U.S. News & World Report Classroom Program
  U.S. News & World Report delivers relevant news coverage to your class. We report more than just the facts by emphasizing how events affect the daily lives of you and your students.
  
  
• Virginia Business Education Curriculum