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Education Subject Guide

Contact YOUR Librarian:

Linda Mirvis
email: mirvis@umbc.edu
phone: 410-455-6825

Websites of Note

  • Free online resource Educator's Reference Desk

    Coverage: current
    Full text of lesson plans and curriculum materials. Replaces the access ERIC Website.


Statistics and Other Web-based Tools

  • Free online resource America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being

    Coverage: current
    Report presents a statistical overview of the well-being of America's children. Topics include children's economic security, health, behavior and social environment and education. Contains data on demographic measures including child well-being.

  • Free online resource Buros Test Review Locator

    Coverage: current
    Search for citations to reviews of educational and psychological tests and measures that appear in:
    Mental Measurements Yearbooks (MMY), Tests in Print, and Test Critiques.

  • Free online resource County and City Databook

    Coverage: 1988 - present
    From the US Census Bureau. Summary demographic and vital statistics; employment, education, government, housing, production and weather data for states, counties, and all cities of 25,000+. See also C3.134/2. Most current ed. On RDYREF.

  • Free online resource Department of Education Annual Publications

    Coverage: Current
    Online versions of the Digest of Education Statistics and the Condition of Education from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Print versions in 1st floor GovDocs stacks.

  • Free online resource National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)

    Coverage: current
    "The Nation's Report Card." Trends in achievement for all major subjects, grades K-12, by state. From National Center for Education Statistics.


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