United
States Education Policy
High School National Debate Topic 1999
Resolved: That the federal government
should establish an education policy to significantly increase academic
achievement in secondary schools in the United States.
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Background on Subjects
- A Nation at Risk
- A Nation
at Risk
- Original 1983 report describing decline in academic excellence in
secondary schools
- Includes summary of findings, recommendations, Congressional
testimony, and a bibliography of reports
- A Nation Still
at Risk (Center for Education Reform)
- Follow-up report written in 1998 claiming little has happened to
improve educational quality in past 15 years
- Link at bottom of page to a chart comparing educational situation
then and now
- Justin's Debate
Page (Justin, accessed through the internet archive)
- Debate readings on the web
- Debate terminology
- Created by a debater
- University
of Kansas(accessed through the internet archive)
- Top-rated web page for the high school debate topic
- Full-text of numerous articles on the issues
- Also includes links to U.S. government, legal, and think tank web
sites
Books [Web and Library]
- ERIC (Department of Education)
- Indexes thousands of articles, books, reports and conference papers on
education since 1966
- Approach by author, title, journal, type of publication, descriptors,
and target audience
- Searches may be limited to various fields, including author, title,
keyword, descriptor, institution
- The ERIC Thesaurus of Descriptors is available in the Undergraduate
Library and in the Library Studies and Serials Room of the Graduate
Library (Z 695.1 .E3 E25)
- Reports on microfiche in Serials/Microforms (MICRO-F X205)under their
"ED" numbers; articles listed with "EJ" numbers require user to check
journal locations in MIRLYN
- Congressional Quarterly
(UMich Only)
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Roll call votes
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- Education Week
- Periodical focusing on K-12 education
- Numerous issue briefs and news in full text
- Use search engine
- Electronic
Journals in Education
- Alphabetical list of full-text journals in education available on the
Internet
- Links to the source
- Most are only available at campus workstations
- University
of Kansas(accessed through the internet archive)
- Top-rated web page for the high school debate topic
- Full-text of numerous articles on the issues
- Also includes links to U.S. government, legal, and think tank web
sites
- Wilson
Select Plus (accessed through FirstSearch) (UMich Only)
- Full text of 2,181 popular journals on line since 1994
- Journal
List
- Brookings
Institution
- Private, non-profit, independent institute analyzing U.S. government
policy
- Summaries of position papers on "hot topics" and selected
Congressional testimony
- Table of contents for the Brookings Review and
selected articles
- Publications catalog and information about the organization
- Use search engine to retrieve numerous articles on education
- Cato
Institute
- Philosophy of limited government, free market, and individual liberty
- "Hot Topics" has the text of Cato Institute position papers, arranged
by subject and searchable by keyword
- Congressional testimony by institute representatives
- Use search engine
- Center for Education
Reform
- Nonprofit organization promoting educational reform through standards,
school choice, and charter schools
- Numerous reports and issue papers
- General Accountability
Office
- U.S. government agency which investigates fraud and abuse in
government programs
- Search by topic and date range
- Heritage
Foundation
- Dedicated to limited government, individual freedom, a free market,
and strong defense
- Text of public policy papers on various topics, including crime,
education, foreign policy, health care, and trade
- Extensive list of conservative think tanks
- Numerous statistics in support of its positions
- Public
Agenda Online
- In-depth material on educational reform for journalists
- Outlines the issues: raising educational standards, student-centered
schools, educational choices, and adequate funding
- Numerous analytical articles and summary of news articles
- Public opinion polls
- Rand Corporation
- Non-profit research organization
- "Research Areas" includes a subject bibliography of RAND publications
since 1985 with abstracts of the reports and articles in the
RAND Research Review since 1994
- "Hot Topics" has the full-text of current policy papers
- Use search engine at bottom of main page
- Use Keyword Searches at bottom of
screen
- Thomas
Fordham Foundation
- Articles on school reform, school choice, educational testing,
curriculum, teachers, and the federal role
- Examples of successful programs
- The Century Foundation
- Progressive think tank
- Position papers on economics, government, foreign policy, and health
care
- Use search engine at bottom of screen
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- Academic Universe/LEXIS
Web (UMich Only)
- Choose General News and then a region or type
of newspaper
- Uses Boolean logic and phrase searching (e.g. russia and indian
nuclear)
- Cable News Network
- News stories on current political issues, often with the full-text of
relevant documents
- Recent material archived in subject groups
- Summaries or full text of recent CNN political programs
- Link to search engine at left side of screen
- Christian Science
Monitor
- Daily newspaper with the full text of lead articles (U.S.,
international, cultural, crossword)
- Archive back to 1980 searchable by subject
- New York Times
- Complete edition of today's newspaper with a search interface
- Previous issues/articles available for a fee
- You must register
- Also available on the University of Michigan campus through Academic
Universe
- USA Today
- Daily articles on news, sports, weather and finances
- Archival file of the top news stories
- Washington
Post
- Full text of current issue and searchable archive
- International section has news and web links to individual countries
- National section has new and web links to individual states
- Searchable index creates maps for individual U.S. business
establishments
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World Wide Web - Newspaper
Locators |
- Newspapers.com
- Arranged by continent and country; for the United States, subdivided
by state
- Provide links to newspapers
- Federal Agency
Web Sites (LSU)
- Cleancut alphabetical listing of federal agency web sites
- Federal Gateway (accessed through the internet archive)
- Frames index expands to list federal government agencies in each
branch
- Agency information includes a brief description of the organization's
mission as well as a weblink
- Guides to acronyms, genealogy, and popular information, such as the
Titanic investigation
- Federal
Budget FY2000
- Full text of the Budget and its Appendix, Budget Analyses, Historical
Tables, Systems and Concepts, Principles, and Citizen's Guide
- Keyword searching available for one or more publications
- Congressional Committees
- Congressional Quarterly
(UMich Only)
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Roll call votes
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- Bills
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes bills since 1989 by subject, keyword, sponsor, and date
- Provides the full text and legislative status
- THOMAS
- Indexes bills since 1993 by keyword, sponsor and date
- Provides the full text and status
- Good public access alternative
- Committee Publications
- Includes hearings (testimony), committee
prints (research reports), reports
(recommendations on bills), and documents (Executive
Branch communiques)
- Hearings of House International Relations and Senate Foreign Relations
Committees provide Executive Branch policy as well as expert opinions
- Congressional Universe
(UMich Only)
- Indexes published hearings (1970+), committee prints (1993+), and
reports (1989+) by subject, keyword, committee, and date
- Provides an abstract of publications located in the Documents Center
in paper and/or microfiche format
- Includes the full text of selected testimony beginning 1988
- Congressional
Universe Quick Guide and Congressional
Universe Research Guide
- Non-University of Michigan Users
- Congressional Record [Web]
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes Congressional Record since 1985 by keyword, speaker,
and date
- Provides the full text
- THOMAS
- Indexes speeches on the floor of Congress by subject, Member of
Congress, and date since 1993
- Michigan
Compiled Laws
- Search for laws-in-force or constitution by MCL Section Number(s), Statue Number(s), Popular Name, Chapter Number(s)
session, and/or keywords.
- Advanced search includes additional strategies by history and legal
challenges
- Michigan Department of
Education
- School Code and progress of new legislation
- Reports and statistics on MEAP testing in individual schools and
school districts, educational finance, and pupil-teacher ratios
- Michigan Governor's
Office
- Michigan
Legislature
- Indexes bills since 1997 by keyword and bill number
- Links provide text of bill, journal proceedings, fiscal analyses, and
status
- Some publications only in PDF format
- Michigan
in Brief
- Analysis of several school issues before the state legislature
- Issued by a non-profit corporation
-
NACo/HPI County
Information System
- Links to counties throughout the U.S. arranged by state
- Unique information includes school districts, federal and state
legislators, cities and towns, names of law enforcement agencies, county
officials, county web pages
- Links to federal sources of data
- City & Town Official Websites
- Extensive list arranged by state
- Entries also available for Canada
- U.S. Conference
of Mayors
- Use alphabetic index or search engine for news reports on
education
- UNESCO
Education Server
- Educational attainment, enrollment, teaching, and finance data for the
world, continents, and major areas but not individual countries
- Table or graph form
- Turn off the graphics on your browser to expedite access
- UNESCO
Statistics
- Educational enrollment and attainment data for individual countries
for the past 15 years as excerpted from the UNESCO Statistical
Yearbook
- Time series data for individual countries on adult illiteracy, school
funding, and the media
- American Association of School
Administrators
- Description of national legislative and policy issues
- Focus on funding and building programs
- Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development
- Short issue briefs on financing, parental rights, bilingual education,
school-to-work, and charter schools
- Council for Basic
Education (accessed through the internet archive)
- Lists standards for educational excellent
- Educational
Leadership Organizations (Michigan Electronic Library)
- Extensive annotated list of national and Michigan educational
organizations
- Michigan Education
Association
- Union for public school teachers in Michigan
- Includes its educational and legislative agendas
- National Education
Association
- Union for public school teachers
- Issue papers on students, teachers, schools and partnerships
- National Parent Teacher
Association
- Issues include school funding, safety, and health
- National School Board
Association
- Advocacy positions on school funding, construction, bilingual
education, vouchers, and the e-rate
- Compiled Laws in Force
- United States
Code (via Congressional Universe - UMich Only) [Web]
- Search existing laws in force by keyword or U.S. Code citation
- Updated within days of the passage of a new law
- Provides U.S. Code text as well as references to bill and public law
text
- Locate under Bills, Laws, and Regulations
- United
States Code (via Cornell Law School)
- Text of all laws in force as of January 1997
- Searchable by popular title of law, title and section of the U.S.
Code, or keyword
- Title 20 is Education
- Currently the best interface
- Public Laws
- Thomas
- Public Laws beginning 1973
- Search by law number or bill number
- Public Laws,
100th Congress, 1988+ (via Congressional Universe - UMich
Only)
- Search for full text of laws by keyword, bill number, Public Law
Number, and Statutes-at-Large number
- Provides full text and bill tracking report
- Regulations
- Code of Federal
Regulations via Congressional Universe (UMich only)
- Full text of existing regulations in force
- Searchable by keyword and agency
- Updated every two weeks
- Code of
Federal Regulations (National Archives)
- Searchable by title and keyword
- Updated annually
- Federal
Register via Congressional Universe (UMich only)
- New regulations, proposed regulations, notices of grants and agency
hearings since 1980
- Approach by date, agency, type of information, keyword and CFR
citation
- Paper copy in Documents Center for past two years as J 83
.A2
- Federal Register (via
GPO Access)
- Search full text via keyword since 1994
- Check off Federal Register box on initial screen; see search
instructions on the bottom of the screen
- See Congress
for proposed legislation
States
- Academic
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes the most current state codes and court decisions by keyword
- You can search by individual state but not across states
- State
Legal Materials on the Web
- Links to bills, laws, and regulations by state
- Under construction as of May 26, 1999 but close to completion
- WashLaw
(Washburn University)
- Arranged by state with links to bills, laws, administrative codes and
court decisions
- Known as most comprehensive in country
- See also Michigan
City Codes
Comprehensive Sources
- Education-At-A-Glance
(NCES)
- Combined search for tables in major statistical compendia
- Includes Digest of Education Statistics, Condition of Education,
Projections of Educational Statistics, Youth Indicators, Education
Indicators: An International Perspective, Education in States and Nations
- Sample searches: earnings and graduation, earnings and women and
Germany
- Michigan
Department of Education
- Michigan Schools Report Cards evaluates various content areas for
K-12 school
- Detailed information on school districts also available
- National Center for Education
Statistics (US)
- Web server has the full text of the Digest of Education
Statistics and Condition
of Education
- National data on schools, enrollment, and outcomes for all levels of
education
- Both sources are indexed by Education At a
Glance
- On-line data is located under two sections of the main menu:
Publications and Surveys/Programs
- Elementary, secondary, and higher education statistics; library,
literacy, and international statistics
- Use Surveys and
Programs for links to publications and data sets on Common
Core Data, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and the
Schools and Staffing Survey
- Numerous reports and data also available from the web site's main
Search
Engine
- Statistical
Abstract of the United States
- Compendium of government and non-government statistics, primarily on
the national and state levels
- Population and vital statistics, health, economics, education,
manufacturing, natural resources, transportation, and U.S. Industrial
Outlook (production and foreign trade by four-digit SIC for past six
years)
- New 2007 version is browsable
- The full text of Statistical Abstract is available in most University
of Michigan campus libraries as HA 202
Comprehensive Indexes
- FedStats
- Comprehensive listing to statistical programs of over 70 federal
government agencies
- Arranged by agency or program; includes explanatory material and
contacts
- Search engine indexes individual statistical tables
by keyword or agency and provides direct connection
- National Center for Education
Statistics (US)
- Statistical Universe (UMich
Only)
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974;
business, association and state government data since 1980, and
international agencies since 1983
- Access through the Statistical Sources menu
- Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity
indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign country,
by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: educational attainment and by
state
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to the
Documents Center for the microfiche version
- Consult Statistical
Universe Guide for various web searching alternatives
and a Slide
Show for further details
Individual Sources
- Educational
Attainment (Census Bureau)
- Educational attainment by sex and race for the nation as a whole
- Taken from the Current Population Survey
- Various formats with the full text in pdf
- National Assessment of
Educational Progress
- Extensive reports on national and state test scores of 4th, 8th, and
12th grade students by various demographic characteristics
- Separate surveys on science, mathematics, history, geography
- All publications in Adobe Acrobat
- A bibliography
lists published NAEP documents since 1970
- National
Educational Longitudinal Survey (NCES)
- Survey follows elementary school cohorts in 1988 through high school,
dropout, post-secondary education, or the workforce
- Interviews with students, teachers, and parents to determine success
factors
- Publications
Search provides links to reports with data
- National
Public School and School District Locator (NCES)
- Locate individual elementary or secondary schools or school districts
by name, district, telephone number, or enrollment
- Data includes location, number of teachers and students,
student/teacher ratio, students by grade and ethnicity/race
- Separate search engine for school districts
- National School
Report (through the internet archive)
- Arranged by county with composite statistics for individual school
districts
- School population, student-teacher raiot, average elementary and
secondary class size, computers in elementary schools, percent of high
school students going to college
- District composite SAT and ACT scores
- A commercial real estate web site
- Quality
Counts - Public Education
- Report on the quality of public elementary/secondary education
- National and state data on student achievement, quality of teaching,
school climate, and funding
- Third International
Mathematics and Science Study
- Test scores of U.S. fourth, eighth, and twelfth-graders in science and
mathematics compared to 20 countries
- Full text of reports and press releases with some in Adobe Acrobat
format
- Includes test questions and education packets
Special Subjects are also covered by other books, articles, think tank
reports, and association material on the web page.
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- About Charter
Schools (Center for Education Reform)
- Survey of charter schools
- Analysis and ranking of state laws on charter schools
- Charter Friends
National Network
- Evaluation of federal government charter schools initiatives
- Articles on charter school evaluation
- Charter School Research
Project (Syracuse University)
- Links to charter school articles on the web
- Charter Schools
(Thomas Fordham Foundation)
- Full text of journal articles
- Annotated links to web sites about charter schools
- Michigan Charter
Schools Evaluation (Western Michigan University)
- Survey shows dropout rates slightly higher and state educational tests
are lower than public school counterparts
- Newness of schools and number of at-risk students attending could
explain
- Summary and full text in pdf format
- School
Choice Policies in Michigan: The Rules Matter (MSU)
- Report analyzed charter schools and inter-district transfers
- Concludes that there is little innovation in charter schools
- Schools of choice tends to foster social segregation
- Study released in October 1999
- U.S. Charter
Schools
- Profiles of individual charter schools arranged by state
- State laws and national statistics
- How to start a charter school
- University
of Kansas Debate Site lists numerous articles on charter
schools
- Resegregation
in American Schools (Harvard)
- Report includes text and tables on segregation in K-12 education
- Data includes percent of minorities (black, Latino) in primarily white
schools and vice versa
- Some data by state and large city
- Issued 1999
Subject Headings for Book and Journal Articles:
Federal aid to education
State aid to education
- American Association of School
Administrators
- Description of national legislative and policy issues
- Focus on funding and building programs
- Federal
Budget FY2000
- Full text of the Budget and its Appendix, Budget Analyses, Historical
Tables, Systems and Concepts, Principles, and Citizen's Guide
- Keyword searching available for one or more publications
- No browsing capability
- Funding
Opportunities (U.S. Department of Education)
- Federal grants available for Education
- Public
Elementary-Secondary School Systems Financial Statistics (Census
Bureau)
- Revenue and expenditures by type, investment and debt for public
school systems in 1993/94
- Statewide data and data for individual school districts with
enrollments of 15,000+
- Public School
Finance Peer District Search (NCES)
- Choose school district and select automatic peers (student/teacher
ratio, median household income, district type, metropolitan status) or
individualized peer information (minority enrollment, poverty, at-risk
students)
- Initial table shows per pupil expenditure for district in question,
the state, the nation, and peers
- List of peers provides individual district data on receipts,
expenditures, community and school demographics
- Student Financial
Aid (U.S. Department of Education)
- Detailed information and applications on student financial aid to
individuals
- Goals 2000
- Text of 1994 law creating national educational goals
- Annotated list of web sites with educational standards
- State plans for implementing the act
- National Education Goals
Panel
- Compares national and state progress on 33 educational goals since
1990
- Reports are difficult to read so check directions first
- U.S. Department of
Education
- Main page has information on student financial aid and disabilities
regulations
- President's and
Secretary 's Priorities includes detailed information on
seven objectives: reading, mathematics, college affordability, standards,
well-prepared teachers, Internet connectivity, and safety
- Catalog of
Federal Domestic Assistance
- Describes program; cites laws and regulations
- Use search engine: Head Start
- General Accounting
Office
- U.S. government agency which investigates fraud and abuse in
government programs
- At main screen, click on "blue book reports"
- Search in box at bottom of screen
- Sample search: head ADJ start
- Head Start
Bureau
- Regulations and income guidelines
- Index to research on the program's effectiveness
- Head
Start Enrollment (NCES)
- Head Start enrollment and allocations by state, 1993-96
- Home
Education Across the United States (National Home School Legal
Defense Fund)
- Brief national data from 1997 on students, test scores, family
characteristics, and long-term success of home schooled students
- Number of home school students by selected state
- On
Thin Ice (Public Agenda Online)
- Public opinion poll on school vouchers
- Graphs show that most people are unfamiliar with issues in debate
- Executive summary in html; Full
Text in pdf format at 618K
- School
Choice
- Classic articles on school choice, including one from Thomas
Paine
- School Choice: What's
Happening in the States (Heritage Foundation)
- Conservative think tank promoting school choice
- Extensive historical report on legislation in each state about school
choice
- Updated through beginning of 1999
- Annual Report on
School Safety - 1998 (Dept of Educ)
- Number of reported high school students carrying weapons to school and
threats made by high-risk states and cities
- Recommendations for ending school violence and model programs
- Indicators
of School Crime and Safety, 1998 (NCES)
- Text and graphs report fatal and nonfatal victimization of staff and
students
- Student and principal reports of drugs, guns, and gangs
- National data often disaggregated by race or location (urban, rural)
but no state or local information
- Appendix lists measures taken by schools to insure safety
- 2006
Edition in PDF format (982 K) with frames index
- Michigan
Senate S.A.F.E. Schools Task Force
- Recommends each school have a crisis plan
- Addresses parental involvement and recognition of violent tendencies
in students
- Task force chaired by Senator Joanne Emmons
- Call Number: Mich Docs - LB3013.3.M5 F57 1999
- National School Safety
Center
- Promotes safe school strategies
- Numerous publications for purchase
- School-Associated
Violent Deaths (pdf)
- List of individual school-associated murders since September 1992
- Data includes date, name of school, name of victim, how victim
killed, reason for incident, location of murder, and description of
incident
- Cumulative data on reasons for death, victims' gender, location, and
state
- School
Safety Information (MI Dept of Education)
- National and state reports on various aspects of school safety
- Promotion of fire drills, etc.
- Scroll Down to the section on School Safety
- School
Violence Resources (Justice Department)
- Statistics and reports for students and teachers
- Good links to state programs and laws
- Students' Report on
School Crime: 1989 and 1995
- Joint NCES and Bureau of Justice Statistics survey completed in 1998
- Data on crime victims, guns, drugs, and street gangs in schools for
1989 and 1995
- Variables include sex, age, and race of student; family income;
metropolitan/nonmetropolitan area; and public/private control
- Text and pdf formats
- Violence
and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools (NCES)
- Types of crimes and frequency in U.S. public schools
- Crime by size, socio-economic status, grade level, and region
- Discipline preventive measures (e.g. school uniforms)
- Youth Risk
Behavior Surveillance System (CDC)
- State and national data affecting health of young people
- Includes eating habits, wearing motorcycle helmets, etc.
- Surveys include weapons brought to school, engaging in physical
fights, and feeling unsafe in school
- Data available in various formats
- The 1997 reports includes school violence in Tables 5-9
- Alternative subject term: school based
management
- American Association of School
Administrators
- Use search button at bottom of main screen for articles on "site-based
management"
- Education Week
- Search the Archives for full text articles on
site-based management
- ERIC (Department of Education)
- Indexes thousands of articles, books, reports and conference papers on
education since 1966
- Approach by author, title, journal, type of publication, descriptors,
and target audience
- Searches may be limited to various fields, including author, title,
keyword, descriptor, institution
- The ERIC Thesaurus of Descriptors is available in the Undergraduate
Library and in the Library Studies and Serials Room of the Graduate
Library (Z 695.1 .E3 E25)
- Reports on microfiche in Serials/Microforms (MICRO-F X205)under their
"ED" numbers; articles listed with "EJ" numbers require user to check
journal locations in MIRLYN
- National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards
- Five principles: What Teachers Should Know and Be Able To
Do
- News items from across the country
- National
Commission on Teaching and America's Future
- What Matters Most summarizes role of teachers
in student development
- Covers recruiting practices, educational development, rewards, and
standards
- Rates each state on hiring well-qualified teachers, teaching
standards, and professional development
- Schools and
Staffing Survey (NCES)
- Numerous reports on teacher preparation, qualifications, salaries
- Major reports on the web in HTML or PDF format; others only available
for purchase
- Teacher
Quality: A Report on Teach Preparation and Qualifications of Public School
Teachers (NCES)
- Report and brief national statistics on teacher education, continuing
education, specialization, and working conditions
- HTML and PDF formats
-
Class Size (Fordham Foundation)
- Full text of articles on class size
-
Teacher Unions (Fordham Foundation)
- Full text of articles on teacher unions
- Toward Better
Teaching (NCES)
- Report on professional development of teachers in 1993/94
- Some state data on funding and release time for development as well as
types of development offered
- Administration for Children
and Families (U.S.)
- ACF in the News includes press releases on child
abuse, welfare, and child support
- Census
Bureau
- Guide to Census Bureau statistics on children
- Child
Care Data (Children's Defense Fund)
- Assessment of child care needs for states
- Cost of child care with highs and lows, statewide averages, and data
for selected metropolitan area
- Reports in Adobe Acrobat format
- Child Care
Data (DHHS)
- Summary statistics and charts on the demographics and economics of
child care
- Additional data on child care employment and salaries, arrangements
for school age children, and the quality of child care for young
children
- Child
Support (Census Bureau)
- Selected tables since 1994 on child support received and not paid by
gender, race, and education of custodial parent
- HTML and pdf formats
- Children in the
States (Children's Defense Fund)
- National and state data on demographic and economic characteristics
- Child abuse, welfare payments, poverty, health problems, child care,
homicides, suicides, and teen birth rate
- Childstats
- Federal inter-agency web site about statistics on children
- Key indicators of child well-being (population, economic, health,
substance abuse, blood lead)
- Special topics, such as fatherhood data
- List of government contacts by subject and agency
- Foster Care and
Adoption Articles (CRS)
- Various articles and reports on Foster Care and Adoption
- Kids
Count
- State and national data on child poverty, children living with working
parents, salaries of child care workers, immunizations
- State rankings on childhood death, crime, and poverty since 1985
- Similar data for large metropolitan areas
- National Committee to
Prevent Child Abuse
- Its Annual States Survey provides national data on child abuse
by type, conditions, and results
- National Incidence
Study of Child Abuse & Neglect
- Summary statistics on the increase of child abuse, 1986-93
- Released by the Department of Health and Human Services on September
18, 1996
- Trends in the
Well-Being of America's Children and Youth (DHHS)
- National data on child population, economics and poverty, behavior,
health, and education
- Text with some graphs dating back to 1950
- Adobe Acrobat format only
- Youth
Indicators
- Statistical data on home, health, schools, educational testing, and
college plans
- See Sociology
Statistics for crime data and Health
Statistics fo r health data
TERM PAPER GUIDES
- Citation
Guides
- Guides to various printed citation guides in the Graduate Library
- Web guides to citing various formats, including electronic
- Turabian
Style Guide
- Popular with many classes
- Dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Quotations and writing guides
- A+ Research and
Writing (Internet Public Library)
- Step-by-step guide to writing a term paper
- Includes tips such as setting deadlines, number of words per page,
role of brainstorming
- Instructions on researching both in the library and on the
Internet
- Library Research
Guide (UMich)
- Guides to analyzing class assignment, research, evaluating materials,
writing the paper, and citing sources
- AltaVista
- Keyword index to the TEXT of individual web pages
- Largest and most popular of search engines as of July 1996
- Excite
- Extremely fast index to the contents of web pages
- Google
- Internet search engine with separate federal government search
- HotBot
- Includes advanced searching by Internet domain (e.g. .gov,
.edu)
- Yahoo [Web]
- Comprehensive classified subject list of world-wide web
sites
Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
Ray C. Walling, Documents Intern, June 2007
University of Michigan Library
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