Education Resources

Finding ARTICLES

Education Research

ERIC - The database includes indexing for over 1000 education and education related journals. Links are provided to full text journals in Academic Search Premier and other databases. More than 2,200 full text ERIC Digests provide short overviews of topics with references for additional information. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

Professional Development Collection - Contains the full text of over 550 professional and scholarly education journals, and indexing and abstracting for an additional 250+ journals. Some full text coverage dates back to 1965. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

ProQuest Education Journals - Database of over 250 full text education journals. Coverage dates from 1988-present. (Database Service: ProQuest) user guide (PDF 78k)

Education Research Complete - A bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

Teacher Reference Center - Provides abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

Educational Administration Abstracts - Covers areas related to educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management, educational research. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

Credo Reference - An electronic reference book collection.

Gale Virtual Reference Library: Education - Electronic encyclopedias including titles on education and child development.

SAGE Journals Online - Interdisciplinary database which includes full text for many Education journals. (Database Service: SAGE)

Academic Search Complete In addition to the almost 500 full text journals linked from ERIC, Complete includes indexing for an additional 360 education journals of which over 150 are full text. Some full text coverage dates back to 1965. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

ProQuest Research Library - Covers a wide range of subject areas (including education) dating back to 1985. (Database Service: ProQuest) user guide (PDF 78k)

Dissertation Abstracts - Abstracts of selected masters theses and dissertations from North America and Europe. (Database Service: OCLC Online Computer Library Center)

Dissertations & Theses @ Edgewood College - Written by students in Edgewood's Doctor of Education program. (Database Service: ProQuest)

Chronicle of Higher Education - the No. 1 source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. access guide

Curriculum

Core Collections - Covers fiction and nonfiction works, story collections, magazines, review sources and professional literature for school and children's librarians. Useful for collection development, reader's advisory and curriculum support. (Database Service: H.W. Wilson)

Book Collection: Nonfiction - Research databases for school and public libraries. Contain informative abstracts and searchable full text for popular nonfiction books. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

TeachingBooks - A portal to thousands of online resources useful for exploring children's and young adult books and their authors. (Database Service: TeachingBooks.net)

Middle Search Plus - Database of 350+ popular magazines for middle and junior high school students. Full text for over 150 titles as far back as 1989. Includes biographies, historical essays, student pamphlets, and an image collection of over 107,000 photos, maps and flags. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

Primary Search - Database of 150+ popular magazines for elementary school students. Full text for more than 60 titles back to 1989. Includes image collection of photos, maps, and flags. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

MAS Ultra - School Edition - Designed for high school libraries, this database includes full text of over 550 popular, general interest and news magazines. MAS Ultra also includes over 550 full text pamphlets and almost 250 reference books. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

Searchasaurus Child friendly search engine for Middle Search Plus and Primary Search. Also includes a general encyclopedia, encyclopedia of animals, and a children's dictionary. (Database Service: EBSCO) user guide (PDF 170k)

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database - An acquisition, research, and reference service that offers more than 1,400,000 MARC records and more than 280,000 reviews of children's books -- all full text searchable from 36 review sources. (Database Service: CLCD)

NoveList K-8 - Discover fiction titles that are popular with young readers as well as titles to use in the classroom. Contains materials for all K-8 grade levels and includes picture books, children's "chapter" books and young adult titles. (Database Service: EBSCO)

Finding BOOKS

Edgewood's Catalog - Books, journal titles, videos, more. See also new books.

Course Reserves - Search by course number or instructor

WorldCat - for books, videos, etc from libraries nationwide

Education WEBSITES

Children's Literature

Caldecott Medal Awards - Caldecott Medal is awarded annually to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - A collection of reviews of great books for kids.

Children's Literature Web Guide - Provides resources in children's literature for teachers, librarians, scholars, parents, and children.

Cooperative Children's Book Center - Unique and vital gathering place for books, ideas, and expertise in the field of children's and young adult literature. Provides original bibliographies created by CCBC librarians, book reviews, webcasts of CCBC-sponsored speeches by children's and young adult book creators, and many more unique resources for librarians, teachers, university students and others.

Coretta Scott King Awards - The King award is awarded for outstanding books that portray the black experience by African American authors and illustrators.

Newbery Award- The Newbery is awarded to the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

Curriculum: Lesson Plans, Activities, and Classroom Resources

eLibrary Curriculum Edition - Easy-to-use curriculum and reference resource delivering one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content designed specifically for K-12 schools and libraries.

Busy Teacher's Web Site - Provide links to direct source materials, lesson plans and classroom activities.

Compact for Reading & School Links - Designed to help parents and teachers set reading goals with children.

Education World: Where Educators Go to Learn - Education topics include subjects such as math, social sciences, and history as well as categories such as K-12 schools, educational organizations, and special education.

Educators Reference Desk - Resource guides, lesson plans and question archives for online resources on a wide variety of education topics.

ENC online - Aims to disseminate effective materials and teaching methods in math and science. A project of the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC).

Lesson Plans Library - Hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers.

World Lecture Hall - Class materials and lecture notes created by faculty world wide.

General Education

Great Sites - "Web sites for kids and adults who care about them" Compiled by the Children and Technology Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

Jigsaw Classroom - A cooperative learning technique that reduces racial conflict among school children, promotes better learning, improves student motivation, and increases enjoyment of the learning experience.

Learning Disabilities

Family Village - Integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities for persons with cognitive and other disabilities.

LD Online - Provides resource on learning disabilities for parents, teachers, and other professionals.

National Educators

Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology - Offers critical reviews of articles and studies related to educational technology, such as online teaching and learning.

National Center for Educational Statistics - Offers quick and easy access to recent versions of the center's most popular publications: The Condition of Education; Digest of Educational Statistics; Education Statistics Quarterly; NAEP Reports; Projections of Education Statistics; other NCES reports.

Overview of Public Elementary and Secondary Schools and Districts- Users will find information gleaned from the Common Core of Data (CCD) survey about US public schools.

School District Demographics System - From the NCES, this is a gateway to geographic and demographic data related to school districts, children and K-12 education.

UNESCO Publications: Education - Provides access to UNESCO's reports.

U.S. Department of Education: Teachers - Provides information on subjects from "accreditation" to "writing report cards."

Professional Growth and First Year Teaching

First Years - Devoted to issues related to the first years of a teaching career.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.

Survival Guide for New Teachers - A U.S. Department of Education guide.

Teachers Network - A professional community of teachers and educators working together to improve student achievement.

Wisconsin Educators

IDEAS: A Portal Web Site for Wisconsin Teachers - IDEAS provides Wisconsin educators access to high-quality, highly usable, teacher-reviewed web-based resources for curricula, content, lesson plans, professional development and other selected resources.

Madison Metropolitan School District Educational Resources - MMSD's education web links page.

Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) - The state agency that advances public education and libraries in Wisconsin.