Resource Guide:
Education
Websites and Digital Archives
The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.
- U.S. Department of Education
- National Education Association
- Virginia Department of Education
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
- Philosophy of Education Society
- Virginia Professional Educators
- American Education Research Association
- Occupational Outlook Handbook Teachers – Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle and Secondary
- History of Education – Selected Movements of the 20th Century
Subject Headings
Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.
- Instructional systems
- Teachers
- Education – Kansas – History
- Education and state – United States – periodicals
- Education – China – History 1976
- Education – Dictionaries
- Learning
- Learning and Scholarship
- Education, Ancient
- Education – Appalachian region
- Education – Congresses
- Education – Early works to 1800
- Literacy
- Education – Aims and Objectives
- Education and state-England – history
- Education – bibliography
- Education – curricula
- Education — Philosophy
Research Databases
The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.
- Academic Search Complete
- Credo Reference
- Education Research Complete
- ERIC
- Humanities International Complete
- JSTOR
- Legal Collection
- LISTA Database
- MasterFILE Premier
- Military & Government Collection
- Newspaper Source Plus
- PhilPapers
- Philosopher’s Index
- PsycInfo
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
- Religion and Philosophy Collection
- Teacher Reference Center
Online Journals
The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.
- Education
- Education as Change
- Education Digest
- Education Innovator
- Education Letter
- Education Next
- Education Policy Analysis Archives
- Education Review
- Education Statistics Quarterly
- Education Week
- Education Policy Analysis and Strategic Research
- Educational Theory
Print Materials at the Von Canon Library
Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.
| Title | Call Number |
|---|---|
| Saving schools : from Horace Mann to virtual learning | LA 226 .P44 2010 |
| American Education | LC 191 .S684 2014 |
| High-stakes testing and the decline of teaching and learning | LB 3051 .H89 2008 |
| Mentoring new teachers | LB 1731.4 .P67 2008 |
| History of education in America | LA 205 .P84 2007 |
| Who’s in charge here? the tangled web of school governance and policy | e-Book |
| Building background knowledge for academic achievement | e-Book |
| Education and social change themes in the history of American schooling | e-Book |
| The shaping school culture fieldbook | e-Book |
| The principal challenge leading and managing schools | e-Book |