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This Subject Guide contains links to a few key indexes in Education plus significant online resources and print materials housed in the Library’s first floor reference section. Web Resources below contains links to sites with substantial academic content. These may assist you on research papers and other class assignments as well as lead to additional useful sites. Look at the
Library's Databases for many other valuable scholarly databases in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For more web resources, try a
Google Scholar search with appropriate keywords for your specific needs.
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- Education World
This comprehensive K-12 site "features a search engine database that indexes 115,000 educational Web sites."
- The Education Index
The Education Index Web site provides a guide to "the most useful education- related sites on the Web." The links can be browsed by subject such as astronomy, chemistry, geology, and physics (among many others), or by life stage, from prenatal and infant all the way to college and continuing education.
- The Michigan Electronic Library
This site, sponsored by Michigan’s Department of Education, is more focused on educators and academics rather than on a general audience.
- ERIC
At this site, you can search the ERIC database, order any ERIC document online, download select full-text documents, and access information on ERIC document delivery services and deposit accounts.
- Buros Institute of Mental Measurements
- The Buros Institute of Mental Measurements provides "professional assistance, expertise,
and information to users of commercially published tests" and " promotes meaningful and
appropriate test selection, utilization, and practice. " Among their publications are the Mental Measurements Yearbook and Tests in Print series.
- The Lesson Plans Page
Claiming to be ‘home of the largest collection of lesson plans on the Internet (more than 500), this teacher-centered Web site is very well organized.
- Teachers Helping Teachers
This free, nonprofit Web site provides basic teaching tips to inexperienced teachers, new ideas in teaching methodologies for all teachers, and a forum for teachers to share their expertise and teaching ideas.
- The Condition of Education 1999
A link to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) site, this is the electronic version of an annual report submitted to Congress.
- Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD)
This site, maintained by the U.S. Department of Education, lists 2,437 organizations that provide education-related services at the state, regional, and national levels.
- Penn Library-Journals/Education
This University of Pennsylvania Library site offers links to more than 30 selected quality journals in education" and lists links to "more that 125 sites for e-journals and major publishers in higher education.
- American School Directory
The American School Directory "allows users to locate Web sites for more than 70,000 schools." Job seekers "may use this directory to gather information about school districts, prior to accepting employment or relocating."
- Developing Educational Standards: Overview
This site offers valuable resources for those interested in a comparative analysis of standards that guide school policies in various states.
- Higher Education Research Institute
HERI is based in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. It serves as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies, and research training in post-secondary education.
- Survival Guide for New Teachers
- This guide from "the U.S. Department of Education is aimed at new teachers, 'with a particular emphasis on the relationships they formed with their colleagues, university professors, and their students' parents.' . . . also includes reflections from award-winning first-year teachers."
