Overview of education
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Politics and Social Science Encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
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Politics and Social Science Encyclopedias from Oxford Reference Online
Search or browse across 23 subject encyclopedias and dictionaries with over 65,000 entries. References are linked via Get VText.
Psychology of Classroom Learning: An Encyclopedia from Gale Virtual Reference Library
Psychology of Classroom Learning: An Encyclopedia from Gale Virtual Reference Library
Psychology of Classroom Learning: An Encyclopedia provides full-text articles in HTML on the psychological aspects of education.
PreK-3rd Data Resource Center from ICPSR
PreK-3rd Data Resource Center from ICPSR
The PreK-3rd Data Resource Center provides data sets on early childhood education. 1979-present.
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