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Education Issues & Research

National Center for Education Statistics

"The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data that are related to education in the United States and other nations." (U.S. Department of Education)

House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce

Search in Issues or Legislation sections. (U.S. Congress)

Education Commission of the States: Education Issues

Browse or search the Education Issues page, and don't overlook their collection of Links. (Education Commission of the States)

The Educator’s Reference Desk

Formerly AskERIC. (Information Institute of Syracuse)

The Institute of Education Sciences

It's mandate is to "to advance the field of education research, making it more rigorous in support of evidence-based education." (U.S. Department of Education)

International Education Indicators

Browse sections in menu. (National Center for Education Statistics)

Learning First Alliance

A private partnership of "twelve leading education associations . . . dedicated to improving student learning in America's public schools." (Learning First Alliance)

Center on Reinvention Public Education

"From its beginning, one question has dominated the Center’s work: How can urban school systems provide strong, coherent schools that create equal opportunity for all children?" (University of Washington)

Education in Maryland

MarylandPublicSchools.org

Events, recent publications, educational services for students, teachers, parents. For Core Reading Programs go to Programs > Reading First. (Maryland State Department of Education)

School Improvement in Maryland

Examines the standards, process, data, and instruction. (Maryland State Department of Education)

"No Child Left Behind"

No Child Left Behind

The home page for this act. Includes the legislation itself, an overview, executive summary, and fact sheets on this legislation, (U.S. Department of Education)

Tools & Resources for Teachers

Discovery Channel School

Everything from clip art for handouts to video clips for online lessons. (Discovery Communications)

The Gateway

"The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet." (U.S. Department of Education)

Just For Teachers

Toolkit, teacher Web site initiative, lesson ideas, resources from federal agencies, publications, professional development. (U.S. Department of Education)

MiddleSchool.net

"For teachers by teachers"; curriculum resources, lesson plans, educational standards listed by state. (Virginia Department of Education)

Teachers' Domain

Free multimedia resources for K-12 teachers, although registration is required. Because it is produced by Boston's public television group, WGBH, lots of access to video clips from NOVA, American Experience, and other high-quality shows. (WGBH Educational Foundation)

ThinkPort

"A free comprehensive online resource for Maryland educators, families, and community members"; links to online lesson plans, online courses, technology tips, resources. (Maryland Public Television; Johns Hopkins University)

Smithsonian Education

The central Web site for the Smithsonian Instutition; resources for teachers, students, and families. (Smithsonian Institution)

Web English Teacher

K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities. (Independently maintained by Carla Beard)

Limit Domains in Google: To limit your Google search to reputable Web sites, enter the domain you are interested in searching in front of your search terms:

site:edu     or     site:gov

    or     site:org

site:edu reading AND (process OR acquisition)

site:gov "no child left behind" AND funding

site:org "reading comprehension" AND "phonemic awareness"

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Here are a few good places to start your search for scholarly journal articles on any topic in the area of reading education.

Education Journals

Remember that less is more--just enter keywords and Boolean operators (see below). You may use "Databases selected" link to search newspapers simultaneously. Use the yellow Print button to reformat your article before printing.

ERIC

To get these articles in full-text, you will have to visit the MCPS Professional Library. See information and directions in section 4.

Teacher Reference Center

Includes 280+ teacher and administrator trade journals.

Expanded Academic ASAP

Indexes over 3,500 titles; 2,000+ are full text. Covers all subject areas.

Academic Search Premier

Full text articles from 4,600 scholarly publications, indexing and abstracts for 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. Covers all subject areas.

National Newspapers

Can be searched simultaneously with Education Journals. Includes full text of New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Baltimore Sun.

Search Expressions: Searching is an art, not a science. Here are some sample searches using keywords (they tend to be nouns); quotation marks for phrases; the Boolean operator AND between each keyword or phrase; and parentheses with the Boolean operator OR for synonyms:

reading AND "lesson plans"

reading AND (process OR processes OR acquisition)

"reading comprehension" AND "phonemic awareness"

"orthographic knowledge"

"no child left behind"

teaching AND elementary AND (reading OR literacy)

Sorting Results & Printing: Remember, you have several ways to arrange your results, including by date (most recent first) or by relevance (highest occurrence of keywords). For trouble-free printing, use the print button inside the database rather than the one in the browser.

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Find Book In Catalog: Go to the library's homepage, find the link for MC Library Catalog, and set "Select Search Type" to Keyword Boolean. Use keywords (tend to be nouns), Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), and punctuation (parenthesis used with OR, quotations marks for phrases) to search across titles, descriptions, tables of content:

reading AND teaching

children AND reading

"reading skills"

Browse Shelves: For books on reading acquisition, go to these sections of the call numbers:

LB 1025 -- LB 1050.75	Teaching, Principles and Practice
LB 1049.9 -- LB 1050.75	Teaching, Reading
LB 1050.9 -- LB 1091	Educational Psychology
PZ	Children's Literature

Renew Books Online: Go into MC Library Catalog and use the MY ACCOUNT button at the top of the page.

Help: Speak to the reference librarian on duty or call the reference desk:

Germantown: 240-567-7853

Rockville: 240-567-7130

Takoma Park Silver Spring: 240-567-1536

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If you are looking for a book and you are confident about your searching abilities, feel free to visit their Web page and search their online catalog.

If you are curious about their journal subscriptions, then check their 2005 Periodical Holdings List.

It is also worth noting that while Montgomery College does not have access to the full text of many of the articles in ERIC, the Professional Library can offer you access to the full text of most of the articles if you do your searching from their computers.

If you are not confident about your ability to locate items in their collection, use their Web site to check their hours. The MCPS Professional Library is across Mannakee Street in the Carver Education Building. From the duck pond, head towards what appears to be the back of the building (away from Hungerford Drive/Rockville Pike). Enter at the first doorway, find Stairway 8 and go up one flight, and then look for signs to the Professional Library, Room G50. Once there, introduce yourself to a librarian and ask for help.

Here is a six-page MS Word document on formating citations for the APA References Page.

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