Free On-line Resources

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

This is mainly a research journal. All past issues are archived and you can visit at any time. If you subscribe, the Editor sends you an e-mail announcing each new article and giving you an abstract of it. If you are interested, you can go online and read or print the full article.

Education Next

This is mainly an policy-analysis journal. This is a completely on-line journal, with no notification system for new issues. You can visit at any time and browse the archives, but you have to pay for a subscription.

Teachers College Record

This site archives articles from print version of the TC Record and also includes discussion groups, on-line-only articles, and links to other related sources. You can visit it and browse any time. If you subscribe, the editor sends you an e-mail announcing certain new introductions.

Education Week

This is a newspaper that covers a wide range of education news including funding, union bargaining, new legislation, and so forth. You can subscribe to the paper edition after you graduate and get rich. In the meantime, check out the on-line version

Teacher Quality Bulletin

This is an e-mail newsletter. Stories tend to be about a paragraph each, telling about recently released research reports, news articles about teaching that have appeared in local newspapers, journals, or elsewhere. To view archived issues, to to the National Center on Teacher Quality.

National Center for Education Statistics

This is the U. S. Government's official data gathering agency for education. The NCES keeps track of how many students, schools, districts, colleges we have, how enrollments and demographics are changing, and many other things about the characteristics of our schools and teachers. It also conducts special purpose surveys on issues such as school choice, teacher attrition and so forth. Most of their data are on line in searchable archives.

Other Lists

The Department's CTEP web site also maintains a list ofhelpful research resources, focusing especially on those available here on campus.

A Google search for education journals yields several web sites that maintain lists of electronic education journals. For instance, AERA includes a Special Interest Group interested in web journals in education. They maintain a nice site that provides a very long list of journals that have some content on the web. In addition, it covers multiple countries. Both Google and Yahoo also maintain lists of education journals on line.

© Mary Kennedy, 2006