“Public education does not serve a public. It creates a public. And in creating the right kind of public, the schools contribute toward strengthening the spiritual basis of the American Creed. That is how Jefferson understood it, how Horace Mann understood it, how John Dewey understood it, and in fact, there is no other way to understand it. The question is not, Does or doesn't public schooling create a public? The question is, What kind of public does it create?"
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The world of Education makes use of many kinds of information, from theoretical to experimental, in the hopes of establishing 'What Works'.
The first part of this Resource Guide will point out in a general way the specialized education databases, authoritative reference sources, deep dive journals and monographs, as well as online information sources, and which search tool to use to find what.
The Education Subtopic/Concentration sections, in contrast, will offer selected examples of our resources much more targeted to:
We do have some pretty specialized resources, many of them available online (which you distance /hybrid course students will be happy to see).
We just want to make sure that everyone is aware of their options.
- Research & Learning Department
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