Education & Child Development

The Chronicle of Higher Education is an important source of news, information, and jobs for college and university personnel and students. For direct online access, set up a free subscription using your MCC email address. Thereafter, you may go to chronicle.com and log with your personal account. The same login enables searches in the Almanac of Higher Education, which contains data and analyses on topics such as college enrollment, finance, technology, students, and more.

CQ Researcher provides in-depth, unbiased coverage of issues related to education, health, social trends, criminal justice, and international affairs. Each weekly issue addresses one topic guided by a question and offers demographics, statistics, pro and con interviews, background information, timelines, and suggested readings.

ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, is an index of education-related journal articles and materials from scholarly organizations, professional associations, research centers, policy organizations, university presses, the U.S. Department of Education, and other governmental agencies. This link connects to the free government hosted version of the database.

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints provides differing views on current issues, controversial issues, and topics requiring a diversity of viewpoints supporting science, social studies, current events, and language arts research through viewpoint essays, topic overviews, court case overviews, periodical articles, reference book entries, and news radio transcripts.

Gale Power Search enables cross-searching of all Gale databases available to the MCC Library. Click "Select all" to deselect all databases and then click on the individual database to add them to the cross-search.

JSTOR is a digital library of archived and current issues of academic, peer-reviewed journals. The MCC Library subscribes to 9 multidisciplinary arts and sciences collections and a life sciences journal collection.

This link provides access to an advanced search of all ProQuest platform databases. To select specific ProQuest resources, click on "Change Databases."

Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

An easy-to-use online resource that provides multimedia content to complement children's and young adult books. Resources include audio book readings, book discussion guides, lesson plans, and more, for over 40,000 children’s and young adult books in English and Spanish.

Explora for Elementary and Primary Students offers a search interface that is easy for K-5 students to use when looking for articles, books, and encyclopedias on a variety of topics, including animals, art, music, geography, language arts, math, science, and social studies. The database is relevant to students enrolled in MCC's Alternative Teacher Certification Program, students taking Child Development courses, and students or community members with school-age children.

Explora for High School is an easy-to-use search interface for students in grades 6-12 looking for magazine and newspaper articles, books, informational texts, primary sources, multimedia, and more on a variety of curriculum-related topics. The MCC Library lists this resource for students in the Alternative Teacher Certification program, its relevance to community members visiting the library, and its relevance to MCC students with school-age children.

An easy-to-use online resource that provides multimedia content to complement children's and young adult books. Resources include audio book readings, book discussion guides, lesson plans, and more, for over 40,000 children’s and young adult books in English and Spanish.