The Reference Shelf: Education
College and University Rankings
"At this site, you will find links to many ranking services, along with cautionary notes and a discussion of the ongoing controversy over rankings." From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Education and Social Science Library. |
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Education Statistics at a Glance
From the National Center for Education Statistics, "Education Statistics at a Glance brings together data from several NCES sources including: The Condition of Education, The Digest of Education Statistics, and Projections of Education Statistics. You will be able to find information in these compendiums by searching documents through their tables of contents (see below), by subject area, and through title only word searches." |
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Education Statistics of the United States, 4th ed. (2003)
"Brings together education-related data from several sources, including the U.S. Bureau of the Census and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). |
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Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd ed.
"Entries address such items as K–12 education, higher education, international education, educational policy and legislation, learning and instruction, out-of school influences, teacher preparation, and testing. In addition, the second edition includes 121 biographical sketches of influential educators, ranging historically from Plato to Alice Miel. |
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Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education
"The encyclopedia consists of more than 400 terms, phrases, concepts, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, significant contributors to the American macroculture from the country’s various racial and/or ethnic backgrounds and key events, and court cases related to multicultural education." |
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FAFSA on the Web (Free Application for Student Aid)
Search for a federal school code. |
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Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
From A User's Guide: "The book is informed by best practice in teaching, learning, assessment and course design from across the higher education sector, underpinned by appropriate reference to research findings. The focus is primarily on teaching at the undergraduate level in the UK, but with much of many chapters having considerably wider applicability. A particular strength of this book is that it reviews generic issues in teaching and learning that will be common to most practitioners, and also explores practices in a range of major disciplines." |
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Historical Dictionary of American Education
"In addition to major state and regional school leaders and reformers, it includes the biographies of significant national educators, philosophers, psychologists, and writers, but not necessarily limited to deceased notables. Subjects embrace significant ideas, events, institutions, agencies, and pedagogical trends that profoundly shaped this society’s changing perceptions and policies regarding education." |
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Historical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States
"More an encyclopedia than a dictionary, the book discusses the history of women’s education in America.... Each entry defines a subject and explores its significance to women’s educational history. When presenting a wide-ranging topic like a biography or a historical movement, the entry emphasizes the particular contributions to education." |
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ISEP (International Student Exchange Programs)
"Established in 1979, under authority of the Fulbright-Hays Act. Incorporated as an independent nonprofit organization in 1997, ISEP continues to facilitate the internationalization of member campuses and to offer affordable access to study abroad." |
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MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences
Entries from Acquisition of Language to Stereotyping. "We see MITECS as being of use to students and scholars across the various disciplines that contribute to the cognitive sciences, including psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology and the social sciences more generally, evolutionary biology, education, computer science, artificial intelligence, and ethology." |
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Teaching to Learn, Learning to Teach: A Handbook for Secondary School Teachers
"The book is designed as a handbook for preservice and beginning teachers.... In the book, we address broad topics in secondary school teaching rather than the needs of specific subject areas. Although examples are included from different subject disciplines, the focus of the book is on the relationships between disciplines (concepts, skills, practices) rather than distinctions. While discussing different approaches to secondary school teaching (middle school, 6–8, and high school, 9–12), the book offers a model student-centered approach based on a series of PRO/CLASS Practices. |
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| usnews.com: America's Best Colleges |
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Web U.S. Higher Education
Links to other regionally-accredited institutions of higher learning in the United States. |
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World Education Encyclopedia: A Survey of Educational Systems Worldwide,
2nd ed.
"Readers will find comparative, in-depth essays on the educational systems of 233 countries and/or territories. ...In addition to essays on each country’s educational system, WEE also contains custom-made graphs and statistical tables, as well as regional maps and an extensive index." |
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