Education Research Guide:Websites

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, neutral source of data and analysis. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. It includes Education data, publications, and interactives. You can even look at the polling questions asked in the Pew surveys.

The purpose of the database is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's literature or to find out if a book has won any of the 112 awards indexed by the database. The awards, including the Caldecott and Newbery, are from 6 English-speaking countries. The database is maintained by Lisa Bartle, a Reference Librarian at California State University, San Bernardino.

Engaging Web resource for teachers struggling with students’ behavior in the classroom. A “veritable encyclopedia of how-to information for dealing with specific problem behaviors.”

A report from the Schott Foundation for Public Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Organization that serves "as a catalyst to position 21st century readiness at the center of US K12 education by building collaborative partnerships among education, business, community and government leaders."

“A clearinghouse for accessing video, audio, documents, images, and interactive teaching/learning games … for use across the curriculum and for various grade levels”. Several ways to sort results. Science-related materials are the largest group.

This site from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) contains a wealth of teaching materials (including lesson plans), has good site organization, and local as well as national resources.

Created by the Library of Congress to serve as a “dashboard” for education by linking to many of the institution’s educational resources, including lesson plans and high-quality digitized holdings such as the American Memory Collection.

Attractive site from the American Historical Association, with well-maintained links.

Collection of links to freely-available sites of interest to educators. Selection by library staff at Harvard.