RESEARCH TOOLS

Educational Administration And
Educational Leadership

Content developed by:
Michael Lorenzen, Head of Reference Services/
Bibliographer for Educational Administration

Phone: (989) 774-1858
E-mail: michael.lorenzen@cmich.edu

Last Updated: 6/27/07

Web Directories

Internet Gateways and Resources

Developing Educational Standards
Developing Educational Standards has been on the Net since August 1995. It contains documentation on standards for schools and educators broken down by subject area and state.
Clearinghouse on Educational Management
Information on administrator training, school reform and improvement, school collaboration with families and social-service agencies and nongraded education that was produced by the former ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management.
Leadership
Covers critical issues in leadership presented by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.
ERIC Digests - Offers access to all 3000+ of the ERIC Digests created by the former ERIC Clearinghouse System many of which deal with educational administration.
Michigan Electronic Library Education Resources
National Center for Education Statistics
United States Department of Education

Research Databases

Education Abstracts
Coverage of education topics from preschool through college in English-language periodicals and yearbooks.
ERIC
Database of the Educational Resources Information Center. It contains annotated references to published and unpublished education-related literature.
JSTOR
Designed to archive a few key journals in each discipline. Provides full-text of selected education journals. Does not include current years.
PsychInfo
Indexes professional journals that include coverage of learning and education within psychology.

Electronic Publications

British journal of educational studies
Comparative education
Contemporary educational psychology
Education Policy Analysis Archives
Published by the College of Education at Arizona State University and dealing with education policy at all levels and in all nations.
EDUPAGE (EDUCOM)
From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal
Journal of curriculum studies
Journal of blacks in higher education
Journal of educational sociology
Journal of general education
Journal of higher education
Journal of Negro education
Learning and motivation
Meridian: A Middle School Computer Technologies Journal
Psychology in the schools
Radical pedagogy
Review of higher education
Sociology of education

Style Guides

Links to web versions of APA, MLA, and Turabian from the CMU Libraries web site.

Education Law

Council on Law in Higher Education
Emory University - Law Library
Education Law Links
School Safety and School Security
U.S. Code Title 20
Available from Cornell University Law Library
US Department of Justice Americans with Disabilities Homepage

Organizations and Associations

United States Department of Education - Links to associations and organizations
American Association of School Administrators
Includes information about this professional organization for educational leaders
American Educational Research Association
Includes AERA conference presentations, and provides links to may other resource collections.
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Includes education news and issues, and provides table of contents for Educational Leadership.
Michigan Association for Intermediate School Administrators
Michigan Association of School Administrators
Michigan Association of School Boards
Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals
Michigan Institute for Educational Management
"MIEM is a private nonprofit organization established to provide professional development activities for all school personnel."
Michigan School Business Officials
"Michigan School Business Officials was founded in 1937 as a nonprofit corporation to serve the multifaceted interests of education."
Michigan School Public Relations Association
Middle Cities Education Association
"The Middle Cities Education Association is a consortium of urban school districts which was formed out of a shared commitment to improving educational opportunities for the urban learner."
Middle Web
"MiddleWeb provides a wealth of resources for schools, districts, educators, parents, and public school advocates working to raise achievement for all students in the middle grades."
National Association of Elementary School Principals
National Association of Secondary School Principals
National Education Association
National School Boards Association

Educational Administration And Educational Leadership

Educational Administration And
Educational Leadership