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Subject Guide: Education

A guide for students and faculty in education majors, including elementary education, early childhood education, and special education

Web Sites of Interest

Minnesota Department of Education—The official education website for the state of Minnesota.

North Dakota Department of Public Instruction —The official education website for the state of North Dakota.

Common Core State Standards Initiative--Standards that are being adopted by many states to provide consistency in learning across the U.S. Not yet adopted by Minnesota or North Dakota.

U.S. Department of Education--Provides a wide range of information, including programs, policies, education statistics, and much more.

Curriculum Materials Center--Provides many resources in the field of education.

Subject Area Sites--Provides specific subject areas and resources, such as art, children's literature, science, social studies and more.

Comstock Reading Aloud Initiative--Sponsored by the Curriculum Materials Center to select best read aloud picture books of the year.

Cooperative Children's Book Collection (CCBC)--Supports teaching, learning, and research related to children's and young adult literature.

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature--Over 12,000 records from 153 awards across six English-speaking countries.

Digest of Education Statistics--Provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from pre-kindergarten through graduate school.

ERIC (free)--The free version of ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.

ETS ReSEARCHER--Contains information on ETS-authored or published works, such as ETS Research Reports, ETS Research Memorandums, or publications written by ETS researchers and published by third parties, such as scholarly journals.