Books and Articles

Four College Library Catalog and UMass Catalog
All the books, journals and videos owned by the Five College libraries listed here. (Try Educational Equalization -- United States) as a subject search, for example.

ERIC: Education Resources Great database of articles and reports about education. Some are fulltext.
Academic Search Premier and Expanded Academic ASAP Index articles from many journals, many fulltext.
Ethnic Newswatch Fulltext of ethnic newspapers, but also academic journals like: Black Issues in Higher Education and The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education.

Want to focus on the economic, sociological, or historical aspects? Pick another database from the subject listings in Indexes and Databases on the Library's website.

Of Special Interest on the web:

Paul E. Barton, "Parsing the Achievement Gap: Baselines for Tracking Progress,"(Educational Testing Service, 2003)

Closing the Achievement Gaps Collection of articles, advocacy groups, data on this topic.

Annenberg Meeting on Closing the Achievement Gap in Secondary Schools

Census 2000 Tons of data about educational attainment and race.

U.S. Department of Education on the Achievement Gap Includes "No Child Left Behind".

Services:

Ask for help! Call Reference at x2319 or come to the desk.

Borrow a book that AC doesn't own -- but is in Valley
Get an article that AC doesn't own; or a book not in 5C.

Ask the library to buy a book you need... or want.

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Call me at x2676 or email me, Susan Edwards

Finding (and citing) books, journals, websites:

Journal Locator See if a journal is available at AC; connect to electronic copies or look in library catalog for print journals
Style Manuals How to cite that article; and EndNote software to format them.
Map of Frost Library Find the book or print journal on the shelf
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