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Education Databases

ERIC (Full Text)
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), is the world's largest digital library of education literature, including journal articles, reports, and other education-related materials.
Education Source
Provides access to the full text of core education journals, covering all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties. Provided by Badgerlink
Educational Administration Abstracts (Full Text)
Provides indexing of articles related to educational administration, including leadership, management and educational research. Provided by Badgerlink
Professional Development Collection (Full Text)
An index and full text to articles and other resources for professional educators with information on everything from children's health and development to cutting-edge pedagogical theory. Provided by Badgerlink
Academic Search Ultimate (full text)
Multi-disciplinary article database providing information across all areas of academic study.

Pertinent Journals

Google Scholar

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Follow these directions to link Google Scholar to the UWSP Libraries for finding full-text scholarly articles for free.

News Sources

U.S. Newsstream (1980-)
Current and archival to 1980s with key national and regional sources including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune as well as over 80 Gannett titles including the Stevens Point Journal, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Supplied by Badgerlink
Access World News
Access World News provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues, including Wisconsin newspapers such as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Wisconsin State Journal.
Newspapers.com (Library Edition-World Collection)
Historical newspapers from the 1700s - 2000s, including thousands of well-known regional, state, and small local newspapers in the United States and other countries. There are 150 Wisconsin-specific titles. Provided by Badgerlink.

Educational Policy

National Council of State Legislatures Database
NCSL works to bring you up to date, real-time information about education bills that have been introduced in the 50 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. You can search legislation by state, category, status or year (starting with 2023). Bill information for the current year is updated at least weekly. New measures are added as they are introduced or identified by NCSL staff. Bills may appear twice in carryover states. In these states, please check the last date of action to ensure the status of the bill reflects the appropriate year. Click on the information icon in the top right corner of the database for more details on how to use the dashboard features.
National Council of State Legislatures Database: Archive
This searchable database tracks education legislation enacted by state legislatures from 2008 to 2022. Issues tracked include teachers and principals, school choice, postsecondary education, education finance and funding, religion in schools, high school graduation/dropouts, testing, accountability, afterschool and STEM. Search enactments by state, topic, status, primary sponsor, bill number or keyword. This database was last updated November 2022.
Google Scholar Case Law
Google Scholar offers an extensive database of state and federal cases, including: U.S. Supreme Court Opinions; U.S. Federal District, Appellate, Tax, and Bankruptcy Court Opinions; U.S. State Appellate and Supreme Court Opinions; Scholarly articles, papers, and reports; and Patents: U.S. Patents; European Patent Office and World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Patents

PolicyMap
PolicyMap is an online U.S. national data and mapping tool and analytics platform with multidisciplinary applications for college students and faculty. It serves to aid research related to social sciences, urban studies, real estate and housing analysis, community and economic development, public administration, public health, policy and political science, education, business, economics, statistics, and geography, among others. Users can leverage thousands of U.S. data indicators in PolicyMap to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis, from a neighborhood census block group in many cases up to a national level, as well as create custom regions for their research and studies.

Education Policy Analysis Archives
Education Policy Analysis Archives/Archivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas/Arquivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas (EPAA/AAPE; ISSN 1068-2341) is a peer-reviewed, open-access, international, multilingual, and multidisciplinary journal designed for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and development analysts concerned with education policies.
GovTrack
Use this page to browse bills in the U.S. Congress related to the subject Education, as determined by the Library of Congress.
U.S. Department of Education: Education Policy
Information about educational laws and policies that impact students and protect their rights.
Wisconsin Education Association Council: Bills We're Watching