Education Research Guide: Web Sites

Resources for teachers, students, parents, and administrators.

"Education Issues" site provides comprehensive overviews of a wide variety of education issues.

Research a Topic link has information on: the brain and learning, character education, classroom management, inclusion, multicultural education, assessment, school safety, problem-based learning, differentiating instruction and multiple intelligences. The "Explore" link seems to lead mainly to full-text articles from ASCD's publications like Educational Leadership. Other links are to items available for purchase such as packets on a topic.

Award-winning "independent public service" site provides links to Web resources and organizations dealing with general, K-12, and higher education issues.

The NCPA is a "nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy research organization." Education link leads to topics such as school choice, charter schools, minority and women's education, testing, government programs and funding, and federal education policy. Links are then provided to articles on more specific subtopics.

General K-12 site with "core concepts", videos, blogs, etc.

From the National Association for Education of Young Children

From the Carroll Community College Library

From Carroll Community College Library

From U. of California at Berkeley

From U. of Albany--includes evaluation of websites free research sites, document repositories, blogs and wikis, social networking sites, social bookmarks, and multimedia

From Johnson & Wales University Library

Tutorial from CCC Library

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, but articles often contain a list of related books that might be useful. Check the library catalog for these books or use Interlibrary Loan to get them.

"The Urban Institute conducts interdisciplinary studies that explore critical intersections between schools, families, communities, and the workplace."