Education
Library Subscription Services
The following sources may be accessed through computers on campus or by current PVCC faculty, staff and students from off campus.
Journal Articles and Books
Education Research Complete is a resource for education research covering topics from early childhood to higher education.
EBSCO provides citations and abstracts or the full text of articles.
First Search has databases that can be searched for citations to journals and books.
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from more than 1,000 educational and education-related journals.
Electronic Journals
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Education Week on the Web accesses the current issue and searchable archives of Education Week and Teacher Magazine.
Local Web Sites of Interest
UVa's Curry School of Education
Internet Resources
Virginia Department of Education has links to individual school divisions, the Superintendent's Annual Report (with statistical data about students), information about licensure requirements and topics of current interest, such as SOL pass and failure rates.
U.S. Department of Education has information about recent legislation and current topics of interest.
National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) is a category within the U.S. Department of Education Web site. As the federal entity with primary responsibility for collecting and analyzing data about education, the NCES reports the results of the annual national reading report card for fourth, eighth and twelfth grade students, as well as other statistical data. In addition, the link to FREE is a compilation of Federal Resources for Educational Excellence, the result of the efforts of more than 30 federal agencies to make hundreds of federally supported education resources available online.
Nineteenth Century Children and What They Read has an anthology of works for children written between 1800 and 1872.
International Children's Digital Library is a five-year project funded by the National Science Foundation and the Institute for Museum and Library Services to create a digital library of international children's books.
Jackson Davis and the Lost World of Jim Crow Education is a collection of nearly 6,000 photographs documenting black schools in Virginia and elsewhere in the South from 1906 to 1932. This Web site has links to other resources on education in the South.
ChildStats.gov has federal and state statistics on children and their families. Data provided by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.
