InfoGuides: EDUC 301-Educating Diverse and Exceptional Learners: Find Articles

Key Databases on Educating Diverse & Exceptional Learners

Education Database This link opens in a new window
Gives users access to over 900 educational publications, including more than 600 of the titles in full text from 1988 to present. Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling, and adult education.
Tutorial for the Education Database.
Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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Covers all aspects of education including multilingual education, health education, testing, curriculum instruction, administration, policy, funding, and all levels of education from early childhood to higher education. Provides indexing for over 1,800 journals, as well as full-text for over 900 journals, 81 books, and numerous education-related conference papers. Tutorial for the Education Research Complete database.
ERIC This link opens in a new window
References to thousands of educational topics. Indexes journal articles, books, theses, curricula, conference papers, standards, guidelines and more. ERIC documents (non-journal literature) are available full-text, 1993 to the present. View a tutorial on this database here.
APA PsycInfo (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, and other areas. Includes more than 3.7 million records.
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FindPolicy.org This link opens in a new window
Search across leading think tanks in a policy area. Search engines within FindPolicy include: Climate, Economy, Development, Foreign Policy, and general Public Policy. There are also country-level and regional searches.
Legal Collection This link opens in a new window
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Includes scholarly publications of law journals, documents, and case studies, including over 250 full-text journals. Provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, and ethics. Indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection.
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Policy File Index This link opens in a new window
Access domestic and foreign public policy research and analytical papers on governmental and legal topics, representing the work of think tanks, research groups, and academic institutes from 1990 to present. Tutorial for Policy File Index database.
Teacher Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.
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Key Journals, Trade publications, Newsletter, and Magazines

Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners
Focuses on topics pertaining to culturally and linguistically diverse exceptional populations, including empirical research, literature reviews and syntheses, onceptual/theoretical frameworks, viewpoints, and book reviews.
from 12/01/2007 to present
Kappa Delta Pi Record
A peer-reviewed journal that presents research-based articles on compelling issues relevant to national and international education professionals who work and teach at all levels and in a wide range of disciplines and settings
from 01/01/1997 to present
Teaching Exceptional Children
Feature articles dealing with practical methods and materials for classroom use aimed at teachers of children with disabilities and children who are gifted
from 01/01/1999 to present

American Educator
Provides classroom teachers and other education professionals from preschool through university with significant articles on issues affecting children throughout the world.
03/01/2005 to present
Education Digest
Covers the entire education field from pre-elementary to college levels for school libraries and administrators, superintendents, supervisors and principals.
from 05/01/1990 to present
Phi Delta Kappan
Designed to advance educational research, service and leadership, emphasizes issues, trends, policy decisions.
from 01/01/1994 to present
Teaching Tolerance
Works to reduce prejudice, improve intergroup relations and support equitable school experiences for our nation’s children.
from Spring 1996 to present
Teach & Writer's Magazine
Covers issues and topics of interest to any K-12 educator, from fundraising to curriculum development to the integration of technology.
from 01/01/1997 to present

Education Update
Presents information for those interested in curriculum, instruction, supervision, and leadership in education.
from 01/01/2008 to present
Education Week
A weekly newspaper devoted to education. Articles, profiles, commentary, legislation, state and national news and book reviews for teachers and administrators in elementary and secondary schools.
from 1981 to present
New York Times‎ in Education
Resource for both instructors and students to provide instructional strategies and classroom activities designed to support several areas of study, including American Government, Arts & Visual Culture, Biology, Business, Environmental Sciences, International Relations, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology and many more. New content and teaching resources are added and curated on a weekly basis by faculty contributors from a variety of institutions. Notes: First time users must create a new account here using their Mason credentials to gain access. This requires a separate registration from your NYTimes.com registration.