| These are the official Library of Congress Subject Headings that you can use for many of your searches in our databases. You would find subject headings such as these by browsing through the Library of Congress Subject Headings books or browsing the "Catalog Record" of every title found in our Library Catalog. |  |
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Educational Change Educational Planning Educational Innovations |
Teachers--Tenure Public School Teachers--Tenure Teacher's Unions |
Education, Preschool Education, Primary Education, Secondary Public Schools Charter Schools Schools
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Discrimination in Education Social Classes Social Class Working Class Poverty Poor Well-Being Luxury Income |
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Education--Parent Participation Parent-Teacher Relationships |
Educational Accountability--United States United States--No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 Educational Tests and Measurements--United States |
School Choice Educational Vouchers Education--Finance Private Schools Home Schooling |
Education Standards--United States Education--Educational Policy and Reform |
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Learning Strategies Learning Modalities Cognitive Styles Cognitive Styles in Children Visual Learning Study Skills Cognitive Learning Theory
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School Volunteers Volunteers Professionalism
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Bilingual Education Diversity in Education Multicultural Education Ethnology--Study and Teaching Cross-Cultural Orientation
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While not official subject headings, these keywords can be very fruitful for your research. Try to also think of other terms such as these. Keyword searches look at all the information in the book or article record including title, author, abstract, table of contents, etc. It always helps to think of synonyms, as the way one person would describe something is not the same way another would.
Common Core
Education Reform
Using the correct words to search will help you find relevant information. Different authors and search tools use different words to describe the same concepts, so it is useful to have a list of similar and related terms in your arsenal when you set out to search for relevant information. The process of creating these alternative terms is called brainstorming terms or concept mapping.
EXAMPLE
Teacher's Unions AND Students First
School Volunteers AND Teachers
If for some reason, you are getting results you do NOT want (say for example you want to find only articles on communication in opposite sex marriages) try a NOT search. Librarians caution that NOT searches often also weed out articles that may have been relevant for you. So only perform such searches if you have LOTS of results (say over ten that are in full text format):
EXAMPLE
Education NOT Higher