Research Guides: Teacher Education: Introduction

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Finding peer-reviewed articles

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database indexes over 13,000 journals and provides full-text for 4,700 journals.
Education Source (EBSCO)
Full text articles from over 1,700 education-related journals, with indexing for thousands more journals, books, and conference papers back to 1929.
Educational Administration Abstracts
Indexes articles related to educational administration and leadership back to 1966.
ERIC via EBSCOhost
Covers all areas of education and education-related aspects of other disciplines. "ED" documents (1994-present) may be available in full-text online.
Professional Development Collection
Designed for professional educators, this database provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles, and more than 200 educational reports.
Teacher Reference Center
Indexes nearly 300 periodicals covering education topics such as: Assessment, Best Practices, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Instructional Media, Literacy Standards, and School Administration.

This database is also freely accessible at this alternate link: http://www.teacherreference.com

Citation resources APA

MLA Style

Purdue OWL MLA

Finding opinions

CQ Researcher Online
Addresses controversial topics in a balanced, unbiased manner, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Examines social issues from a variety of sources: pro and con viewpoint articles; full-text articles from magazines, academic journals, and newspapers; statistics and more.
Points of View Reference Center
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Covers over 300 controversial topics, each with a background overview and pro/con arguments.
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Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.

Web resources - Policy and think tank resources

Government resources

Professional organizations

Finding online videos

Films On Demand
Provides online streaming access to over 29,000 documentaries, newsreels, and educational videos produced by Films for the Humanities, PBS, the History Channel, and other producers.

Finding curriculum resources

Looking for juvenile literature or professional literature related to a particular subject area and reading level? This information and more is readily available through Children's Literature Comprehensive Database.

Children's Literature Comprehensive Database
Contains more than 300,000 critical reviews of thousands of children's and young adult books. Includes information about book awards, reading measurement programs, best book lists, and state reading lists.

You may also be interested in looking at Curriculum Standards by state.