Educational Research

Educator's Reference Desk

This site gives access to "2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses. ... [It also] provides a search interface to the ERIC [Educational Resources Information Center ] Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice." The database is updated monthly and includes citations from 1966 to thepresent. Searchable

Proquest at school

Many Education journals are included in their entirity. You can read entire issues or search by subject. The database contains full text magazines and newspapers since 1986. The deep backfiles includes some magazines from the sixties and seventies. Some backfiles of the Washington Post and Washington Times as well as theWorld Book Encyclopedia are also available here. You may use Proquest at home. See a media specialist for user name and password and use this link: Proquest at home. The New York Times from 1855-present as well as professional journals are also available.
 

Professional Library

Collections include 14,000 books (mostly on education), subscriptions to over 300 periodicals in education and psychology with back issues on microfilm, subscriptions to nine newspapers (we keep back issues for a month), over 450,000 ERIC documents on microfiche, the on-line databases ERIC, ProQuest Platinum periodicals, ProQuest Education periodicals, HW Wilson Education Full Text, HW Wilson Library Literature and Information Science Full Text, EBSCO Professional Development collection, APA's PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES databases and several CD-ROM data bases, including Mental Measurements Yearbooks. Our facilities include access to a FAX machine, telephones for patrons, eight Macintosh and nine Wintel computers which have FirstClass, Microsoft Office, and the Internet, six microfilm/microfiche reader-printers, and tables for individual or group projects.
 

Schools in the Digital Age

Electronic School chronicles technological change in the classroom, interprets education issues in a digital world, and offers readers -- some 80,000 school board members, school administrators, school technology specialists, and other educators -- practical advice on a broad range of topics pertinent to the implementation of technology in elementary and secondary schools throughout North America

Need more? A nationally renown media specialist, Joyce Valenza, has produced these links for her teachers. If Joyce prepared it, we recommend it too.

 

 

 

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