Subject Guide: Education

The Library's Subject Guides help you find resources that are specialized for certain areas of study. There are many other resources available which provide generalized information--not specific to one topic or area. To see more of these general resources, see the Subject Guide: General page.

Education Department Homepage

Online Resources

Databases provide information about journal, magazine and newspaper articles.

• Education Full Text
• Education Research Complete
• ERIC
• Education Index, 1929-2000  L11 .E23 (Annex Floor 1A)

To find a larger list, browse Education Databases in the CONSORT catalog.

Reference Books

Reference books provide background information on a people, terms and concepts.
(Each of these titles is either available online or located in the Denison Library Reference section on the 3rd tier of the library, near the Reference Desk in the Learning Commons.)

• 21st Century Education: A Reference Handbook
• Alternative Schools: A Reference Handbook
• Bilingual Education: A Reference Handbook
• Curriculum Trends: A Reference Handbook
• Diverse Sexuality and Schools: A Reference Handbook
• Education and Technology: An Encyclopedia
• Educational Adequacy and the Courts: A Reference Handbook
• Educational Leadership: A Reference Handbook
• Elementary Education: A Reference Handbook
• Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education
• Encyclopedia of Education LB 15 .E47 2003
• Encyclopedia of Education and Human Development
• Encyclopedia of Education Law
• Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology
• Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent
• Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education
• Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present
• The Greenwood Dictionary of Education  LB15 .G68 2003
• Handbook of Research on Curriculum  LB1570 .H264 1992
• Literacy and Learning: A Reference Handbook
• Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Theory, and Practice
• The Mental Measurements Yearbook LB1131 .B9932 (16th ed. 2005)
• Middle Grades Education: A Reference Handbook
• Multicultural and Diversity Education: A Reference Handbook
• Philosophy of Education: An Encyclopedia  LB17 .P485 1996
• Psychology of Classroom Learning
• Secondary Schools: A Reference Handbook
• Sex, Youth, and Sex Education: A Reference Handbook
• Special Education: A Reference Handbook
• Sports and Education: A Reference Handbook
• Standards and Schooling in the United States: An Encyclopedia
• Student Rights: A Reference Handbook
• Teacher Certification Requirements in All Fifty States  LB1771 .T4
• Alternative Teacher Certification : A State-by-State Analysis 2002  LB1771 .F311 2002
• Teacher Training: A Reference Handbook
• Understanding Educational Reform: A Reference Handbook
• Urban Education: A Reference Handbook
• World Education Encyclopedia : A Survey of Educational Systems Worldwide

Web Resources

Here are a few web sites we think you might find useful:

• INFOhio
  Web site of the information network for Ohio's schools including access to information for teacher's and students and school librarians.
• OPLIN
  Ohio Public Library Information Network
• Developing Educational Standards
• Education Week
  American education's online newspaper on the the web
• Education World
  A "search engine" for educators
• Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
• The Educator's Reference Desk
  Includes access to the ERIC database, lesson plans and more...
• The Law and Special Education
• Measuring up 2000 the State by State Report Card for Higher Education
• National Education Association
• Rethinking Schools Online
  An educational journal
• ED.gov
  U. S. Department of Education
• Blue Web'n
  A library of learning sites on the Web
• International Children's Digital Library
  A public library for the world's children from the University of Maryland
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO): Education
• Websites for Educators
  A collection of links to freely available sites of interest to educators, provided by the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Statistics

• Eurydice:The Information Network on Education in Europe
• International Archive of Education Data (IAED)
• National Center for Educational Statistics
• Open Doors Online
  Contains data on both foreign students studying in the U.S. and U.S. students studying abroad.
• UNESCO Institute for Statistics
• U.S. Census Bureau: School Enrollment