Education : Virgin Islands (U S)

A listing of web sites that provide links to educational resources relating to the U.S. Virgin Islands. Extensive lists of colleges and universities are available through such portales such as BRAINTRACK which links to Latin American universities (http://www.braintrack.com/linknav.htm?pprevid=13&level=2). The University of Oulu, in Finland, provides an listing of the "Best Indices of Colleges and Universities World-wide" (http://www.oulu.fi/other/universities.html). While focusing on the United States, The National Library of Education is the federal government's main resource center for education information. However, one should note that at that site, the ERIC database provides a wide range of documents and articles for the international audience. The database contains more than one million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles. One may access the ERIC database on the Internet (See AskERIC below) or through commercial vendors and public networks. The ERIC abstracts are avalable in print publications such as Resources in Education and Current Index to Journals in Education. For Latin America and the Caribbean, additional academic sources may also be found concerning the U.S. Virgin Islands in the annual Handbook of Latin American Studies (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas/) produced by over 130 contributing editors under the editorship of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Additional coverage of journal articles can be found through a subscription to the Hispanic American Periodical Index (http://hapi.gseis.ucla.edu/).   Both the Handbook and HAPI are available in selected libraries in book form.   One of the major aggregators for links to a wide variety of the U.S. Virgin Islands subjects is the University of Texas' LANIC (http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/other/vi/).

ANTILLES SCHOOL  (http://www.antilles.k12.vi.us)
A coeducational, college preparatory day school enrolling students from Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12. Antilles was founded in 1950 and its mission is to set high academic and personal standards and to meet individual student needs.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ON ST. CROIX  (http://www.islands.vi/~chancery/page11.htm)
Lists names, addresses and contact information for Catholic Schools on the island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands.

PROFILES OF OUTSTANDING VIRGIN ISLANDERS  (http://webpac.uvi.edu/imls/pi_uvi/profiles1972/index.shtml)
Features profiles of outstanding Virgin Islanders: including Governors, educators, athletes, civil rights leaders, diplomats, asthetes and entrepreneurs. Digitized for Access and Preservation. This project results from a collaboration between the University of the Virgin Islands Libraries and the Virgin Islands Division of Libraries, Archives, and Museums.

ST. CROIX COUNTRY DAY  (http://www.stxcountryday.com/)
An independent, non-sectarian, college preparatory school. Mission is to provide students of diverse backgrounds with a well-rounded and challenging education.

ST. JOHN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS  (http://www.stjohnrealtorsvi.com/schools.htm)
Features information about public schools Julius E. Sprauve School in Cruz Bay, Guy Benjamin School in Coral Bay and Ivanna Eudora Kean High School at Red Hook in St. Thomas. Ferry service is free to all students with Government issued passes. Private schools are Pine Peace School on St. John. Many students ferry to St. Thomas to attend private or religious-affiliated schools.

ST. JOSEPH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL  (http://www.islands.vi/~sjhs/xindex.html)
A catholic high school located on the island of St. Croix. Features a link to St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

ST. PETER AND PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL  (http://www.spps.vi/)
Located in downtown Charlotte Amalie, on the Island of St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic School is an educational community serving young men and women from the Islands of St. Thomas and St. John. Pre-K through 12. This school is fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges.

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION  (http://www.usvi.org/education/)
The United States Virgin Islands Department of Education is an Executive Department of the Government of the Virgin Islands as mandated under Title III and XVII of the Virgin Islands Code. The department is headquartered in St. Thomas and functions as both a local education agency and a state-level agency.

UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS (UVI)  (http://www.uvi.edu/pub-relations/uvi/home.html)
The University of the Virgin Islands was chartered on March 16, 1962, as the College of the Virgin Islands — a publicly funded, coeducational, liberal arts institution. There are two campuses, one of the island of St. Croix and one on the island of St. Thomas. The first campus opened on St. Thomas in July 1963, on 175 acres donated by the federal government. In 1964, the college founded a second campus on St. Croix, on 130 acres also donated by the federal government. UVI offers a wide range of extracurricular activities and even

V I MONTESSORI SCHOOL  (http://www.vimontessori.org/vims.html)
A non-profit private school governed by a nine member Board of Trustees. The Board of Trustees is comprised of parents.