Education 200: Foundations of Education

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2008 volume contains 100 articles, within 17 broad subject areas, highlighting "the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates any student obtaining a degree in the field of education ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st Century." You may preview the contents.

Tenth edition (2018) offers a snapshot statistical profile of each U.S. public school district with at least 1,500 students.

Diane Ravitch composed this 2007 collection of about 500 terms from the field of education and translates them from rarefied jargon into comprehensible English.

Two-volume set, published in 2010, contains over 500 signed essays on interdisciplinary perspectives on institutionalized curriculum, and more. You may preview the list of entries.

Four-volume set (2012) contains over 700 signed entries which present "research and statistics, case studies, and best practices, policies, and programs at pre- and post-secondary levels." [ preview ]

Two-volume set (2014) contains 300 signed entries which examine key theories and theorists, concepts, ideas, schools, and figures. [ preview ]

Two-volume work (2014) contains about 300 signed essays on topics such as school finance, education equity, educational investment, and more. (Click on the "Reader's Guide" tab for broad subject areas.)

Second edition (2014) outlines "political behaviors and cultural influences operating within schools, and the ideological and philosophical positions that frame discussions of educational equity and reform." You may preview the contents.

2013 volume provides coverage of "key topics, concepts, and issues, as well as in-depth studies of approximately 180 national educational systems throughout the world. "

Most recent annual volume (2018-19) offers "the most complete and current listings of the requirements for certification of a wide range of educational professionals at the elementary and secondary levels."

Fourth edition (2010) covers biological psychology, neuroscience, DSM diagnoses, psychopharmacological treatments, tests, scales, assessments, societies, organizations, and much more.

Three-volume set (2008) "provides a comprehensive entry point into all of the existing literature on child development from the fields of psychology, genetics, neuroscience, and sociology."

Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition. Highlights the expanding influence of economics in social science research and features new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences. Acquisition was made possible by the McCrum Palmer Book Fund.

The IESBS (2002) is the largest reference work on the social and behavioral sciences ever published -- over 4,000 signed articles in 26 printed volumes.

Two-volume set (2007) containing about 275 signed entries drawing from such disciplines as psychology, anthropology, education, sociology, public health, counseling, history, and philosophy. Themes include classroom magagement, cognitive development, language development, and testing.