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View a list of Social Sciences: Education periodicals (with links to electronic full text).

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Leadership Journal is available in hard copy (print) in the periodicals area, LRC-4th floor. Note that "Articles are gradually posted on the website over time, and some articles appear only in print." To browse issues: --Go to Leadership Journal issue list. --Select an issue and browse the article list. To search issues: --Go to Leadership Journal.net --Type your key concepts. --From the drop menu, if not selected, choose Leadership Journal.net only (see image at right) --Click Go.

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Print Reference Resources:

 

Finding Statistics Online

Call number HA33.5.B47 LRC-R

Government Information on the Internet

Call number ZA5075.N68 LRC-R

 

ChildStats.gov

http://www.childstats.gov/
The official web site of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.

The Condition of Education (NCES)

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/condition98/index.html

Digest of Education Statistics

http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/AnnualReports/reports.asp?type=digest
"Provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from kindergarten through graduate school. The Digest includes more than 400 tables from many sources, both government and private." Availability includes 1992 - most recent edition.

FedStats

http://www.fedstats.gov
Public interest statistics. "The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies."

The Gallup Organization

http://www.gallup.com
Polls on social issues, ethics, values, etc.

National Center for Education Statistics

http://nces.ed.gov
This site provides "a comprehensive overview and analysis of the state of education in the US and comparisons to other countries." Over 1,000 tables are available from many NCES publications. Offers searching and FULL TEXT of Education Statistics Quarterly. Free copies can be ordered from EdPubs.

National Center for Education Statistics: Education Statistics at a Glance

http://nces.ed.gov/edstats/

Progress of Nations

http://www.unicef.org/pon98/
UNICEF's (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund) rankings of nations according to the well-being of children, including education.

RefDesk.com

http://www.refdesk.com

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

http://stats.bls.gov/

U.S. Census Bureau

http://www.census.gov/

U.S. Census Bureau: FactFinder

http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html

UNESCO's Institute for Statistics (United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture)

http://www.uis.unesco.org/

WWW Virtual Library: Demographics and Population

http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/

WWW Virtual Library: Statistics

http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/statistics.html

 

AED: Academy for Educational Development

http://www.aed.org/
"Founded in 1961, AED is an independent, nonprofit organization committed to solving critical social problems in the U.S. and throughout the world through education, social marketing, research, training, policy analysis and innovative program design and management. Major areas of focus include health, education, youth development, and the environment."

Ask ERIC Virtual Library

http://ericir.syr.edu
Selected resources for education and general interest. Contains lesson plans, AskERIC InfoGuides, access to the ERIC database (1966-present), selected full text ERIC Digests, links to other educational Internet sites, and more.

Campus Technology

http://campustechnology.com/mag.asp
Offers free subscription to Campus Technology publication that focuses on the role of technology in higher education.

CED: Education K-12

http://www.ced.org/projects/educ_k12.shtml
Data and Reports.

Child Care & Early Education Research Connections

http://www.childcareresearch.org/discover/index.jsp

The Chronicle of Higher Education

http://chronicle.com

Dissertation Calculator (Univ. of Minn.)

http://www.lib.umn.edu/help/disscalc/

Distance Education Clearinghouse

http://www.uwex.edu/disted/home.html (Provided by the University of Wisconsin)

Education Report Card

http://www.uschamber.com/icw/reportcard/default

Education Week on the Web

http://edweek.org

Education World

http://www.education-world.com/

Educator's Desk Reference

http://www.eduref.org/
From the Information Institute of Syracuse, includes 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, 200+ question archive responses, and more.

EROD: Education Resource Organizations Directory

http://www.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/index.html
"Iintended to help you identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics." The State/Territory Search map provides a quick reference to a list of the key State and ED-funded organizations that serve your State.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)

http://www.eric.ed.gov/

ERIC Clearinghouse on Assessment and Evaluation

http://ericae.net

The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States

http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/SDFS/preventingattacksreport.pdf (A publication of the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Dept. of Education)
"A fifty-page report that details how the two agencies conducted the study of school-based attacks and what they discovered. It contains five chapters and includes findings such as characterizing the attacker, along with conceptualizing, signaling, advancing, and resolving the attack."

Measuring Up: The National Report Card on Higher Education

http://measuringup.highereducation.org/

MEL Internet: Education

http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=10
Provided by The Michigan Electronic Library. A directory of selected education related Internet sites. Search or browse by category.

National Center for Early Development & Learning

http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncedl/
Contains issues and research on the "cognitive, social, and emotional development of children from birth through age eight."

National Reading Panel

http://www.nationalreadingpanel.org/default.htm

NEA: National Education Association

http://nea.org/

NIEER: National Institute for Early Education Research

http://nieer.org/
Data and research.

New Teacher Home Page

http://www.inspiringteachers.com/home/newteachers.html

Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI)

http://seriweb.com/

Teachable Moment

http://www.teachablemoment.org/

Tim van Gelder's Critical Thinking on the Web

http://www.philosophy.unimelb.edu.au/reason/critical

U.S. Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp
Use the Search Topics A-Z feature to locate specific information on the web site.

U.S. Department of Labor

http://www.dol.gov/

UNESCO's Information Sources (United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture)

http://www.unesco.org/unesdi/

 

Education Job Opportunities

See also: Job and Career Resources Library guide

 

Academic360.com

http://www.education-world.com/jobs/
Jobs in higher education. Search institutions by geographical or alphabetical listing.

Academic Employment Network

http://www.academploy.com/
Commercial service listing job openings in education.

The Chronicle of Higher Education: Career Network

http://chronicle.com/jobs/

Education Employment Center from Education World

http://www.education-world.com/jobs/

JobBank USA

http://www.jobbankusa.com
Provides a Meta-search page, which allows simultaneous searching of more than 18 other jobs listing sites.

JobTrack

http://www.jobtrak.com/

Subject Directories

BUBL: Education

http://bubl.ac.uk/link/e/educationlinks.htm

Librarians' Internet Index: Education Topics

http://lii.org/search/file/education

MEL Education provided by The Michigan Electronic Library

http://mel.org/education/education-index.html

University of Chicago, Joseph Regenstein Library: Education

http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/edu/

WWW Virtual Library: Education

http://www.vlib.org/Education.html