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//Use these links to help with research for graduate courses, professional development, or to help you improve your practice!// [|//Databases//] //[|//Journals//]// [|//Government Resources//] //[|//Links and Gateways//]// **//[|Practical Stuff]//**

[|ProQuest Online] Select Education Journals from the search pull-down menu

[|ERIC] For searching ERIC abstracts and Digests and ordering documents. Includes an archive search for older materials, back to 1966. [|Teacher Reference Center] Index to 260 professional journals and books, focusing on key topics.

[|Educators' Desk Reference](U. Syracuse) Resources, research, lesson plans

[|ERIC Expert Search Strategies] Access to ERIC Digests

[|ERIC Thesaurus] Help using the language of its database and its best descriptors.

[|Educator's Reference Desk] More than 3000 resources on a variety of educational issues, including web sites, and links to educational organizations and discussion groups. Topics include: counseling, educational management, evaluation, technology, librarianship, specific populations, teaching, and the various disciplines.

[|ERIC On-Demand Documents] Source for searching and ordering ERIC documents (EDs) in paper, fax, microfiche or PDF formats for a relatively low fee. EDs are typically research papers and other monographs. The phone service is available at 800 443-3742.

[|GEM Gateway to Educational Materials] "One-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet." [|SchoolMatters] Standard and Poor's database for information, analysis, and comparison of public schools. [|UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations] Search the database for previews and to order PDF documents [|UMI Thesis and Dissertation Reference Services] Access to citations and abstracts of Masters and Doctoral papers. Documents are available for order. [|Test Reviews Online] Test information from the //Mental Measurements Yearbook Series.//

 [|Educational Journals Online] Browse these journals. Many provide selected full-text content. Includes these not-to-be-missed journals! [|Open Access Journals for Education]
 * [|American School Board Journal]
 * [|ASCD Journals] (Includes //Educational Leadership// and //Journal of Curriculum and Supervision//)
 * [|Kappan]
 * [|Ed Leadership Archived]

Journals for school librarians

 [|FREE Federal Resources for Educational Excellence] Collects the contributions of more than 30 Federal agencies to "make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find." [|Doing What Works](US gov) [|State Education Reforms] Collection major developments in state-level policies. [|US Dept.of Education Ed Pubs] "The Department (ED) produces hundreds of publications annually, administers programs and initiatives, and underwrites education research." Special emphasis on reading and accountability. [|National Center for Educational Statistics] [|National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities] Covers such areas as construction costs, school size, safety, classroom design. [|U.S. Network for Education Information] "An interagency and public/private partnership whose mission is to provide official information assistance for anyone seeking information about U.S. education and for U.S. citizens seeking authoritative information about education in other countries." [|White House Education Policy] [|No Child Left Behind Site]

 ALPS: Active Learning Practice for School (Harvard) http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/home/index.cfm American Educational Research Association http://www.aera.net/ Annenberg Institute for School Reform (Brown) http://www.annenberginstitute.org/ Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) http://www.ascd.org/ Benton Foundation http://www.benton.org/ Coalition of Essential Schools http://www.essentialschools.org/ Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science http://www.enc.org/ Hot Topics in Education [| http://mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=2059&pathid=2583] Institute for Learning Technologies (Columbia) http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/ Internet Resource Collection (University of North Alabama Libraries) http://www2.una.edu/library/sa04/index.htm Knowledge Loom: What Works in Teaching and Learning (Brown) http://knowledgeloom.org/index.jsp McRel: Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning http://www.mcrel.org/ National Association of Elementary School Principals http://www.naesp.org/ National Association of Secondary School Principals http://www.nassp.org/ Northwest Regional Educational Library http://www.nwrel.org/ Rethinking Schools http://www.rethinkingschools.org/ About the Standards [|standards.html]

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