Trends and Issues
in Education
Pathfinder
Livonia HS Library
April 2011
Books
R 347.73 ZIR
Zirkel, Perry Alan. A Digest of Supreme Court Decisions Affecting Education. 2nd ed. Bloomington, Ind.:
Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, c1988.
R 370 TAK
Taking sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Educational Issues. 14th ed. Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw-Hill,
c2007. A collection of twenty-one debates on educational issues by a number of leading educators, and
standardized curriculum, and bilingual education.
R 370 TAK
Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Teaching and Educational Practice. 2nd ed.
Dubuque, Iowa: McGraw-Hill/ Dushkin, c2005. Presents debate-style essays on twenty educational
issues including grading, discipline programs, abstinence-only programs, school uniforms, American
history, and achievement-level tracking.
R 370 UNG
Unger, Harlow G., 1931-. Encyclopedia of American Education. 2nd ed. New York: Facts on File, c2001.
Contains articles that provide information on educational topics from a wide variety of subject areas,
including biographies of notable educators; arranged alphabetically.
Other Books (Reference and Circulating):
Find books about your topic by doing a KEYWORD or SUBJECT search on the Senior High School Library
catalog (HS Follett Search – on the desk top). Look for books from the Opposing Viewpoints Series, the At
Issues Series, the Contemporary Issues Series, the Current Controversies Series, etc. If you can’t find what you
need in our catalog, follow the inter-library loan procedure by clicking on the Other Libraries link on the HS Library
webpage, then searching the FiveSystems or WorldCat. When you find an item you would like to borrow, print
the page and give it to Mrs. D’Onofrio or to Mrs. Bishopp. The book will be ordered for you ASAP.
NOTE: Sometimes it can take a week or more to receive the book. Make your ILL requests as early as possible!
Articles in Subscription Databases:
To access these, click on the “Databases” button on the HS Library web page. Log in to the page with the passwords
given on your orange handout “Livonia High School Resources – ‘Hot Sheet’ 2009-10”. Use the “Advanced Search”
options – they allow more precision in searching, and you may get better results.
Congressional Quarterly (CQ Researcher)
Gale’s Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Gale Virtual Reference Library (under Gale EBooks)
EBSCO’s History Reference Center
NOVEL Gale Periodicals
Websites:
Education Commission of the States
http://www.ecs.org/
The Educator’s Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org/
Multnomah County Library
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html
National Center for Early Development and Learning
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncedl/
ProCon.org
http://www.procon.org/
Public Policy Issues and Groups from Vanderbilt University Libraries
http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/romans/pubpol.html
Santa Ana College
http://www.sac.edu/students/library/nealley/websites/controversial.htm
US Government Documents are available at USA.Gov (very user friendly) or at FDSystem
Search the following for reliable sites that cover your topic:
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org
from MorgueFile.com