Education Resources: Reference Sources
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias for Education
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Oxford Bibliographies Online This link opens in a new windowCombining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, Oxford Bibliographies Online guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.
Subscribed modules: African Studies, American Literature, Anthropology, Art History, Atlantic History, Buddhism, Classics, Communications, Hinduism, Islamic Studies, Linguistics, Management, Medieval Studies, Music, Philosophy, Renaissance and Reform, Victorian Literature
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Best Evidence EncylopediaThe Best Evidence Encyclopedia is a free web site created by the Johns Hopkins University School of Education's Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE) under funding from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education. It is intended to give educators and researchers fair and useful information about the strength of the evidence supporting a variety of programs available for students in grades K-12.
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Encyclopedia of American EducationAvailable in print in the library
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International Encyclopedia of EducationAvailable in print in the library
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International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral SciencesAround 4000 articles covering all aspects of the social sciences. The encyclopedia can be browsed by topic or searches can be performed on the full -text. Available as an e-Book
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The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational TechnologyExamines information on leveraging the power of technology to support teaching and learning. While using innovative technology to educate individuals is certainly not a new topic, how it is approached, adapted, and used toward the services of achieving real gains in student performance is extremely pertinent.
Directories
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NCES: Schools, Colleges and LibrariesFrom the National Center for Education Statistics. Includes universities as well as K-12 schools, both public and private.
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College NavigatorFrom the U.S. Dept. of Education. Information for each institution typically includes location and contacts, levels of degrees offered, federal financial assistance offered by the institution, Carnegie Classification, prices, enrollment data, degrees awarded, campus crime statistics, financial aids awarded, and accreditation.
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State Contacts - U.S. Department of EducationContact the department of education in your state, or the adult ed, arts, child care, higher ed, humanities, libraries, PTA, special ed, tech-prep, vocational rehabilitation, vocational-technical, or other education office in your state.
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Closed School SearchA database of closed colleges and universities from the Federal Student Aid program at the Department of Education.