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Don't Settle: Effective Web Searching

Effective Web Searching

Improve your search results with site-specific searching:

Limit to:

Government websites: site:.gov
Educational institutions (but watch out for student work!) site:.edu
Non-profit organizations (and some businesses) site:.org
Specific industries and many news sources are commercial enterprises. site:.com

Google Advanced Search
Use this search to help you limit by resource, date and more. Find specific types of websites, such as those created for academic purposes (.edu) or government (.gov).

Useful Education Websites

American Council on Education
American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC)
"AIHEC provides leadership and influences public policy on American Indian and Alaska Native higher education issues through advocacy, research, and programmatic initiatives; promotes and strengthens Indigenous languages, cultures, communities, lands, and tribal nations; and through its unique position, serves member institutions and emerging TCUs."
Brookings Institute: Education
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level.
Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education
Center for Urban Education
OUR MISSION
Since its founding in 1999, the USC Rossier Center for Urban Education (CUE) has worked to bring equity-mindedness to institutions of higher education through socially conscious research, tools and learning institutes. CUE empowers practitioners to act as agents of change, enabling them to be critically race conscious as they respond to changing demographics in our educational systems.
Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act
by Aarti D. Stephens from "Immigration and Migration: In Context"
Education Equity Index Report - Data
Use the tabs "City Data" and "School Data" for more resources on equity in education
Education Justice Project
With a mission to "model college-in-prison program that demonstrates the positive impacts of higher education upon incarcerated people..." this website has many helpful resources.
Education Research and Data Center (ERDC)
"Washington’s Education Research & Data Center (ERDC) compiles data about students as they move through school to the workforce. It transforms this data into insights that inform the decision-making of legislators, parents and education providers"
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
[Legal Information Institute, Cornell University]
Learning Policy Institute
The Learning Policy Institute conducts and communicates independent, high-quality research to improve education policy and practice. Working with policymakers, researchers, educators, community groups, and others, the Institute seeks to advance evidence-based policies that support empowering and equitable learning for each and every child.
Pew Research Center: Education
Find a list of articles, reports, datasets, factsheets, and other resources on different topics connected to problems in connection to education (k-12 & higher education)
Rand Corporation: Education and Labor
Rand is a non-partisan think national and international-focused think tank
U.S. Department of Education
Research, statistics, news, policy, and more information on education in the United States.

Statistics on the Web

Education - Statistics
From USA.gov
UN Statistics Division
The homepage for all topics under the UN's international statistics

Why websites [no assets = okay to map OR copy]

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The web is a great resource for:

Government information
International sources
Up-to-the-minute and local news
Local resources
Organizations involved in an issue
Statistics
Opinion
Images and video
and much more

Image Source: "Internet1" by Rock1997 is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Find Country Education Info

Find a City/ Country Website

Find the official government website for a city or country.

In the US, type in the city name and .gov
To find the official (rather than tourist) website of an international city, Wikipedia provides a link to the government website from the city profile box on the upper right of the article page.