Education Policy & Legislation
UVA Library research guide for education policy & legislation
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Databases Focused on Education Policy
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7 Education DatabasesSimultaneously search the following 7 education databases:
1) ERIC, 2) Academic Search Complete, 3) Education Full Text, 4) Education Index
Retrospective: 1929-1983, 5) Education Research Complete, 6) Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection, and 7) SPORTDiscus
Click the PEER REVIEWED button to limit articles to only peer reviewed journals.
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ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowERIC provides access to more than 1.4 million bibliographic records of journal articles, most of which are peer-reviewed, and other education-related materials, with hundreds of new records added multiple times per week. If available, links to full text are included.
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Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Topics such as marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. Find articles plus financial data, books, book digests, conference proceedings, case studies, market, industry, and country reports, company profiles, and SWOT analyses.
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EconLit This link opens in a new windowInternational coverage of economics in journal articles, books, dissertations, book reviews.
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Web of Knowledge/Web of Science This link opens in a new windowIncludes Book Citation Index- Science (2005-), Book Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities (2005-), Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science (1990-), Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Sciences & Humanities (1990-), Current Chemical Reactions (1985-), Index Chemicus (1993-), Science Citation Index Expanded (1900-), Social Sciences Citation Index (1900-), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-), and Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present).
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ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Information by and about the U.S. Congress: documents and reports, Legislative Histories, hearings, and members and committees. Search the Congressional Record, Federal Register, Federal Regulations, The Hill, and Roll Call. Formerly LexisNexis Congressional.
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Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text This link opens in a new windowIndex to Legal Periodicals Full Text indexes hundreds of journals from 1981-date, with full text coverage of selected journals beginning in 1995 and page-image PDFs for most of these titles 2001-date. See also Index to Legal Periodicals Retro, which provides index coverage from 1908-1981.
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Legal Collection This link opens in a new windowLarge collection (over 250) of law journals plus some case studies and documents.
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Public Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProviding up-to-date bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration theory, administration and economy, administration and politics, administration and society, administrative structures and organization, public and social services, public service personnel and theory and methods.
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Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new windowTool for journal evaluation, using citation data taken from over 8,000 journals in the areas of science and technology. Used to find impact factors.
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NexisUni This link opens in a new windowNews and business information from sources around the world; book reviews, biographical, and other reference sources; U.S. Code, constitution, and court cases. Includes many newspapers. Most entries are full-text, some updated daily.
Selected Education Policy Websites
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Center on International Education Bookmarking (CIEB)Includes overviews of the educational systems of top-performing countries and reports on how the U.S. could benefit from drawing from their examples.
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Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and ManagementResources on trends and issues, hot topics, publications, directory of organizations, and links of policy and management.
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Common StandardsThe National Governors Association drafted core curriculum standards for grades K-12 that have been adopted by most of the states of the US.
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Education Commission of the StatesHelps state leaders shape policy on educational issues in the 50 states.
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National Assessement of Education Progress (NAEP)The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas. Assessments are conducted periodically in mathematics, reading, science, writing, the arts, civics, economics, geography, and U.S. history.
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National Center for Education and the EconomySince 1988, NCEE has been researching the world’s best performing education systems to unlock their secrets. We focus on their standards, instructional systems and assessment designs. We look at the way they govern, finance and organize their systems. We use this information to provide groundbreaking designs for high performance education systems at the national, state and local levels.
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U.S. Dept. of Education: Policy SectionProvides links to government documents related to education policies.