English101.Composition.honors.Kahalas

toc =ENG 101: Composition Honors=
 * Professor Name Judith Kahalas**

A girl in a yellow dress with two pigtails sits at her desk in the foreground. Sylhet, Bangladesh

Today's discussion... 1. What are the library sources available to complete your assignment? 2. What are the differences between them? 3. How many sources do you need to identify? 4. How do you plan to conduct your research, sort through the information need, select the most appropriate items, and evaluate the credibility of the information sources? 5. What keywords will you use to retrieve the information from the established database systems?

Today's Reseach Goal
Professor Kahalas has given you an assignment to research information on your selected topics under the subject area below. This requires research into basic facts about history and current situations, and facts that apply the selected topics alone. You are encouraged to use both print and electronic resources for the assignment related today's session. We advise you to visit the library often with time enough to exhaust the RCC library resources and tools designed to support your assignment accomplishment.

Below are the selective list of resources appropriate for your subject areas.
 * [|RCC Library Home Page]: Most materials found in this research guide are available at the library's home page.
 * Totsaporn Intarabumrung, tintarabumrung@rcc.mass.edu : Please contact me if you have any questions concerning this guide or research.

=Books=

Books
The on-line catalog provides access to the Library's collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals and audio-visual titles. These resources may be used to find information for assignments or general interest. [|Tutorial for searching catalog and ordering books from MBLN]

Good Search Terms to use: words or phrase
"School Desegregation"; "Busing to schools" "Community Colleges" "Achievement Gaps" and "across Cultures"; "academic achievement" and "ethinicity" "Education" and "Third World Countries"; "education" and "developing countries"

Selected RCC Books
Under the subjects: School Desegregation; Community Colleges; Achievement Gaps across Cultures; Education in the Third World Countries. __Achieving Racial Balance: Case Studies of Contemporary School Desegragation__ by Sondra Stave, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995. LC214.2 .S73 1995 __Beyond Desegregation: Urgent Issues in the Education of Minorities: Papers from the Series of Seminars on Critical Problems and Issues in the Education of Minorities__ by Will Antell, NY: College Entrance Examination Board, 1978. LC3731 .B49 __Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s__ by Ronald P. Formisano, Chapel Hill, NC; University of North Carolina Press, 2004. LC214.523 .B67 F67 2004 __Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo: the Influence of Local Leaders__ by Steven Taylor, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, c1998. LC214.23 .B67 T396 1998 __Getting around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and the Columbus Public Schools__ by Gregory S. Jacobs, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997. LC214.23 .C65 J33 1997 __Inequality: a Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America__ by Christopher Jencks, NY: Basic Books, 1972. LC 205 .J46 1972 __National Profile of Community Colleges: Trends and Statistics__ by K. A. Phillippe and L. G. Sullivan, 4th ed., Washington, DC: Community College Press, 2005. LB2328.15 .U6 N38 2005 __Other Boston Busing Story: What's won and Lost across the Boundary__ Line by Susan E. Eaton, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. LC214.523 .B67 E38 2001

Reference Books
__Dictionary of Education__, prepared under the Auspices of Phi Delta Kappa, edited by Carter V. Good, NY: McGraw-Hill Book, [1973]. Ref. LB15 .G6 1973 __Encyclopedia of American Education__, by Harlow G. Unger, NY: Facts On File, 1996. Ref. LB17 .U54 1996 __Encyclopedia of Special Education: a Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults__, edited by Cecil R. Reynolds and Elaine Fletcher-Janzen, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2000. Ref. LC4007 .E53 2000 Community College __Community Colleges: a Reference Handbook__, by David L. Levinson, Denver, CO: ABC-CLIO, 2005. Ref. LB2328.15 .U6L49 2005 __Handbook on the Community College in America: its History, Mission, and Management__, edited by George A. Baker III, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. Ref. LB2328.15 .U6 H36 1994
 * Dictionary
 * Encyclopedias
 * Handbooks

=Periodicals= Browse these paper journals and magazines in the library's first floor periodicals section for articles about the subject areas above.
 * Black Collegian
 * Community College Journal of Research and Practice
 * Equity & Excellence in Education
 * Journal of Educational Psychology
 * Journal of Educational Research
 * Journal of Negro Education
 * NEA (National Education Association)Today
 * Change: Magazine of Higher Learning

=Articles= Access to millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases. Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including over (21,000 article mentioning "human rights", 3,200 articles mentioning genocide, 2,700 mentioning torture and 900 using "human rights" and war.[|Tutorial]
 * ==[|Academic Search Premier]==

Provides full-text articles and primary documents related to school desegregation.
 * ==[|African American Experience]==

Provides 327 search results of peer-reviewed articles under "community colleges"; 13 under the search string,"education" and "third world" and "countries". [|Off Campus] Provides 9162 full-text peer-reviewed articles under phrase search, "community colleges"; 10 under search query, "achievement gaps" and "ethnicity"; 70 under "education" and "third world" and countries" Provides 2071 search results of peer-reviewed articles under phrase search, "community colleges"; 69 under search query, "academic achievement" and "ethnicity"; 34 under "education" and "third world" and "countries"
 * ==[|Educator's Reference Complete (On Campus)]==
 * ==[|ERIC]==
 * ==[|Professinal Development Collection]==

=Web sites= There are many good web sites on the internet. These web sites have been evaluated by library staff. Remember to always evaluate internet resources. To find out more about evaluating web sites, [|Lesley University] has a very good guide.

Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count

 * [|Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count], providing research publications, data tools, national and state data, and data notes newsletters.

Alternative Education

 * [|Alternative Education,] prividing information sources and some training modules for alternative education. This web site is compiled by San Jose State University.

Boston: School Desegregation Records

 * [|School Desegregation Records], created by the Archives and Records Management, Office of the City Clerk, City of Boston. Providing finding aids for the desegregation records.

Community College Research Center

 * [|Community College Research Center], providing reports on the issues affecting community colleges nationwide. Research proceedings with statistical information.

Government Documents

 * [|USASearch,] providing a tool for locating information created and posted online by US government agencies.

Massachusetts Department of Education

 * [|Massachusetts Department of Educaton], providing government documents on educational topics in the State of Masschusetts.

Metco Program

 * [|Metco Program], providing Metco news archives and its information on funding and School District Metco listings.

UNESCO: Education

 * [|UNESCO: World Education], providing reports on current situations of worldwide education and literacy.

Working Class: Education
=Open Access Journals=
 * [|Economic Mobility in America], providing research and reports related to working class and higher education in US.
 * [|Directory of Open Access Journals], providing free journal articles.

=Basic Research Help= Please click the Ask a Librarian icon if you have any questions concerning these guides, need help finding material for your research or any general questions you might have.
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 * Looking for articles? Search our [|Databases].
 * Can't find what you are looking for? Use our [|InterLibrary Loan Form].

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Research guide prepared on 03.05.09 by Ted Intarabumrung: tintarabumrung@rcc.mass.edu