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Education Resources

This guide offers suggested starting points and resources when researching with Connecticut state and federal government information. The page on General Resources for Student Research may also help.

The primary audience is intended to be History Day students, although teachers, parents and other researchers may find this useful as well.

Many topics in the field of education will overlap with other social sciences (psychology, sociology, etc.) as well as social services (aid to the poor, mental health, etc.). It is hard to separate them out at times.

The scanned Archives finding aid for RG010, Department of Education, includes a brief history of education in Connecticut.

Records of the Department of Education, 1845-2007, State Archives Group No. 10
Scan of paper archive finding aid for RG010, State Department of Education.
See also online finding aid to check for updates.
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Please contact the History & Genealogy (H&G) unit for further assistance.

Education Topics of Interest

These are some topics that have been researched at the CT State library in the past.

Gallaudet and Education of the Deaf
Yung Wing and the Chinese Educational Mission
Helen Keller (she died in Easton, CT)
Civil and Human Rights as they impacted education (ex. Brown v Board of Education and Sheff v O'Neill).

Books, Documents, etc.

Unto the least of these : social services for children by Lundberg, Emma O. (Emma Octavia)
Call Number: HV741 .L85
Publication Date: [1947]
Unto One Of The Least Of These : A Report On The Education Of The Handicapped Child
Call Number: Conn Doc Ed83bu no.22
Publication Date: [1942]
Report On Study Of Legislation Relating To Education Of Exceptional Children
Call Number: Online and Conn Doc Ed83 reLeg
Publication Date: [1966]
Online access through our catalog.

Other Institutions

The Connecticut State Library may has these resources and/or related resources.

Library of Congress (LOC)

Education Resources from the Library of Congress
Site: "The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections."
Native American Boarding Schools (LOC) Library of Congress (LOC) Primary source set. Blog post description: "A newly updated primary source set, Native American Boarding Schools, uses artifacts from the collections of the Library of Congress to support students’ exploration of these boarding schools and the young people who attended them. Photographs, newspaper articles, cartoons, and interviews provide glimpses into boarding school life and the ways in which the schools were debated and discussed. A brief essay helps teachers – and their students – put the items into historical context, and teaching ideas offer starting places to analyze the primary sources and construct knowledge."
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Site: "The resources in this primary source set are intended for classroom use. If your use will be beyond a single classroom, please review the copyright and fair use guidelines."
Native American Education: Topics in Chronicling America (LOC)
Library of Congress (LOC) research guide for Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
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Library of Congress (LOC) research guide: "Assimilation of Native American culture through "Indian Schools" led to controversy and backlash. This guide provides access to materials related to "Native American Education" in the Chronicling America digital collection of historic newspapers."
Arts, Education, Culture, Crazes and Trends - Topics in Chronicling America (LOC)
Library of Congress (LOC) list of topics for research guide for Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
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Library of Congress (LOC) Site: "Chronicling America provides free access to millions of historic American newspaper pages. Listed here are topics widely covered in the American press of the time. We will be adding more topics on a regular basis"

U.S. Depart of Education

National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
Site: "The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education."
Education Reports from ERIC
GPO GovInfo: "Find reports on federally funded education research topics from the U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resources Information Center. Reports on govinfo begin with those received by GPO in October 2002. The documents received from the Educational Resources Information Center have dates that range from 1995 to 2004. Prior reports are available from select Federal depository libraries nationwide in microfiche. A larger selection of ERIC reports is available from the ERIC program web site. Files are available in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) only. "

Federal Agencies

Ocean Service Education (NOAA)
NOAA Education Resources (National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration)
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Description from GODORT research guide "Education resources are distributed across many websites and program offices at NOAA and on NOAA partner websites. This portal is designed to assist educators in accessing these materials from one centralized interface. The content here is a sampling of NOAA's education resources and more can be found at each linked location."