Data Sources

Textual Literacy

The Digital Revolution A series of provocative essays published in the December 2, 1996 issue of Forbes

Project Bartleby
Great classics from a collection of "Dead Writers."
CNN Interactive


Discovery Channel Online
NPR Online
MSNBC
The New York Times on the Web
The San Francisco Chronicle

Numeracy

The U.S. Census
The World Bank

Visual Literacy

The Library of Congress
Extraordiary collections of photographs and other visual treasures along with good lesson plans for teachers.

The National Gallery of Art
Dramatic and vivid paintings and other works of art from the national collection.

The Thinker
More than 60,000 images from the San Francisco Fine Arts Museums with a powerful search engine.

The Web Museum
Vast collection of paintings with excellent text information to accompany them . . . artist biographies as well as history of art noting relationships between artists and approaches to painting.