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Education Administration and Management
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AssociationsTitle: American Association of Community Colleges
Description: The American Association of Community Colleges is the primary advocacy organization for the nation's community colleges. The Association represents more than 1,100 associate degree-granting institutions and some 10 million students. Site includes news, legislative issues, and other information relevant to community college administration.
Title: American Educational Research Association
Description: The American Educational Research Association is concerned with improving the educational process by encouraging scholarly inquiry related to education and by promoting the dissemination and practical application of research results.
Title: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Description: The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development is a unique international, nonprofit, nonpartisan association of professional educators whose jobs cross all grade levels and subject areas.
Title: EDUCAUSE World Wide Web Server
Description: http://www.educause.edu/
Now a merged organization of two separate but related groups - EDUCOM and CAUSE - EDUCAUSE is a non-profit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
Title: Educational Associations and Organizations links at U.S. Dept of Education myED.gov
Description: The Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD) contains information on more than 3,800 national, regional, and state education organizations including many associations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics.
Title: Michigan Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Description: The purpose of the Michigan ASCD Web site is to provide information and awareness about Michigan ASCD; to create a forum for educators to discuss, become knowledgeable about, and conduct research on educational topics; to post professional development and growth opportunities available through the organization.
Title: Michigan Association of School Administrators
Description: MASA is the professional association serving superintendents and their first line of assistants. As such, it is a place you can call and ask for advice and information on a wide variety of subjects from technical to personal challenges.
Title: Michigan Association of School Boards
Description: Michigan Association of School Boards is a voluntary, nonprofit association of local and intermediate boards of education located throughout the State of Michigan. Our membership is comprised of 600 boards of education, representing nearly all public school districts in the state.
Title: Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals
Description: Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals is committed to the improvement of secondary education in the State of Michigan (middle level, high school, and vocational centers).
Title: Michigan Institute for Educational Management (MIEM)
Description: The institute provides professional development activities for educational leaders in the state of Michigan that assist them in designing, planning, and implementing quality programs for all students.
Title: National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP)
Description: The association offers professional development training programs, regional and national conferences, and a broad range of regular periodicals, including PRINCIPAL magazine.
Title: National Association of Secondary School Principals
Description: Founded in 1916, the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) mission is to promote excellence in school leadership.
Title: National Education Association (NEA)
Description: NEA has a long, proud history as the nation's leading organization committed to advancing the cause of public education. With its headquarters in Washington, D.C., NEA has 2.7 million members who work at every level of education, from pre-school to university graduate programs.
DatabasesTitle: ABI/INFORM Global
Description: An index of over 1,800 publications with abstracts, and full text from over 700 of these titles, selected from newspapers, trade publications, and journals on business including, for example, administration, economics, computers, finance, human resources, management, and marketing. Full-text of Wall Street Journal articles available from 1984. Otherwise coverage is from 1971 to the present with some older material available. Updated daily.
Title: Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest)
Description: Indexes virtually all doctoral dissertations and many masters theses produced in the U.S. since 1860 and many from foreign schools as well. Abstracts available from 1980. Full text for most dissertations available from 1997. Some authors choose to not make their dissertations available. Print and microfilm copies are offered for a fee, but check out Interlibrary Loan before paying for a copy.
Title: ERIC
Description: The Educational Resources Information Center indexes and abstracts over 2,000 journals and more than 450,000 reports in education and related fields. Some documents are available full text, the rest are on microfiche in the Education Library. Covers 1966-present. Updated monthly.
This is the FirstSearch version, also available from CSA and from the US government. Tutorial
Title: Education Abstracts
Description: Indexes more than 700 English-language periodicals in education. Coverage: 1983 to the present, abstracts from 1994. Updated weekly.
Title: WestCat
Description: WestCat is WMU's online library catalog. It can be used to identify books (including online books), government documents, journals, videos, sound recordings, slides and other items that the University Libraries has in its collections. WestCat can be searched by title, author, subject heading, keyword, call number, and more.
ERIC ResourcesTitle: Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management
Description: The Clearinghouse produces and disseminates books, monographs, and synthesis papers on topics of interest to our national clientele of educational policymakers, school administrators, researchers, and other personnel. The Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management (CEPM) is a unit of the College of Education, University of Oregon. This website provides access to the resources that were produced by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management, which closed December 31, 2003. Title: ERIC Database Search
Description:
Access to ERIC is open to the public, no passwords required. The database indexes hundreds of journals in education and includes documents in the ERIC document collection. See also: ERIC Database in WMU Libraries - A Brief Guide.
Government ResourcesTitle: Michigan Department of Education Resources for School Administrators
Description: Access to regulations and school codes, bulletins, policy documents, and related information regarding public, higher, and private education in Michigan.
nnnSee also Bulletin 1014: Michigan K-12 Financial Data & Ranking
nnnSee also Bulletin 1011: Analysis of Michigan Public Schools - Revenues and Expenditures
Title: National Center for Education Statistics
Description: Searchable site that includes statistics on all aspects of education in the United States.
Title: U.S. Department of Education
Description: Site highlights publications, programs, policy, federal education legislation, funding programs, and news at the department.
Grants and Funding ResourcesTitle: Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (Federal Grants)
Description: The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Programs (CFDA) is a government-wide compendium of all 1,479 Federal programs, projects, services, and activities that provide assistance or benefits to the American public. These programs provide grants, loans, loan guarantees, services, information, scholarships, training, insurance, etc., to millions of Americans every day.
Title: Foundation Center
Description: The Foundation Center is an independent national service organization established by foundations in 1956. Their mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed by maintaining a comprehensive and up-to-date database on foundations and corporate giving; by providing educational programs, and by maintaining a content-rich Web site.
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