Research & Subject Guides: McNair Scholars: Graduation Rates

Books

Troubling the waters : fulfilling the promise of quality public schooling for black children by Jerome E. Morris
Call Number: A&T Stacks LC2771 .M66 2009
ISBN: 0807750158
The academic achievement of minority students : perspectives, practices, and prescriptions / by Sheila T. Gregory
Call Number: A&T STACKS LC3731 .A57 2000
ISBN: 0761815791
The achievement gap in U.S. education : canaries in the mine by Mano Singham
Call Number: A&T Stacks LC213.2 .S57 2005
ISBN: 1578862175
Methodological Advances in Cross-national Surveys of Educational Achievement by Porter, Andrew C.; Gamoran, Adam,
Call Number: NetLibrary e-book
ISBN: 0309083338
Black American students in an affluent suburb : a study of academic disengagement by John U. Ogbu
Call Number: A&T Stacks LC2771 .O43 2003
ISBN: 080584516X

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Academic Search Complete
Multi-disciplinary, full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles.

To find Articles check the Databases
Articles are indexed by the electronic databases, which are accessible through the library’s homepage http://www.library.ncat.edu

ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC is an index for all education topics. ERIC indexes Journal Articles in 1,000 education-related journals. Abstracts are provided. Some full text journal articles are available. ERIC indexes ERIC Documents. These are education materials not published elsewhere, such as curriculum guides, various research reports, and conference papers.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
The JSTOR project seeks to develop online access to the full back files of selected journals. The database contains a digitized image of every page and is searchable by every word.
MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new window
General reference magazines and publications covering a wide-range of subject areas including business, health, education, general science and multicultural issues. Includes peer reviewed publications.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This resource was replaced by Sociology Source Ultimate, which is an upgraded version with additional content. The link redirects to the updated resource.

Education 'Cocktail'

This box makes a quick search of Academic Search, MasterFile, ERIC, and Teacher Reference Center. Your search will be limitted to "Full Text" and "Scholarly Journals" at first; if you want more results you can change those limits on the right-hand side of the Results.

Media

Medicating Kids
FRONTLINE examines the dramatic increase in the prescription of behavior-modifying drugs for children.Are these medications really necessary--and safe--for young children, or merely a harried nation's quick fix for annoying, yet age-appropriate, behavior?

Statistics

ABCs of Public Education
Accountability Model
Great Schools
Kids Count
NC Public Schools Statistical Profile
NCDPI reports including breakdowns by school system
NCES Annual Report
Brings together data from several sources published by NCES. (COE, BJS,and projections for the future)
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the US and other nations
NC Census Data 1960-1980
Hundreds of census profiles compiled by the State Data Center (SDC) in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s are full-text searchable
The Condition of Education
This website is an integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000–present. Some indicators may have been updated since they appeared in print.
TIMSS
Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study...The most detailed summaries of family background influences on academic achievement

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