Research Guides: *Social Policy: Education Policy

Key Resources

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
This multidisciplinary database provides access to articles from journals, magazines, and reference sources across all subject areas. Coverage is primarily from 1980 to the present, with some older content.

Education Abstracts
Education Abstracts indexes and provides abstracts for articles from 400 journals covering the field of education. As of February 2006 this database indexed 39 journals not covered in ERIC.

ERIC This link opens in a new window
Database sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to education-related literature, including pedagogy, counseling and psychology. Covers 1966-present.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
The PAIS International database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world.
Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Project MUSE is a unique collaboration between libraries and publishers providing 100% full-text, affordable and user-friendly online access to high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers.

Selected Education Policy Websites

Common Standards
The National Governors Association drafted core curriculum standards for grades K-12 that have been adopted by most of the states of the US.
National Assessment of Educational 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."
National Center for Education and the Economy
"Since 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."
Center on International Eduction 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.
U.S. Dept. of Education: Policy Section
Provides links to government documents related to education policies.
Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management -
Resources on trends and issues, hot topics, publications, directory of organizations, and links of policy and management.
Education Commission of the States
Helps state leaders shape policy on educational issues in the 50 states.