About the Book
Educators Resource Directory is designed to provide educators, administrators, and other education professionals with immediate access to a unique combination of educational resources, along with important educational statistics and rankings. Educators Resource Directory includes associations, publications, trade shows, workshops, and training programs. This resource is designed not only to help educators advance professionally, but also to give them the resources they need to help their students, their schools, and their state meet educational standards. It provides tools for classroom and career management, as well as resources that truly make a difference in job, school, and student performance. All listings in this comprehensive volume are thoughtfully organized in 13 chapters and 76 subchapters, making information significantly easier to access than the unfocused data available online or the scattered in dozens of different sources. Statistics and rankings are designed to help states, school districts, and individual educators better understand their educational environment and make informed decisions on careers, curricula, and funding. Educators Resource Directory includes 6,408 listings in Section One, more than 140 of which are new. This section includes 7,956 key contact names, 4,506 fax numbers, 3,718 e-mail addresses, and 5,199 web sites, and is categorized into 13 helpful chapters for easy research: Associations & Organizations, Conferences & Trade Shows, Consultants, Teaching Opportunities Abroad, Financial Resources, Government Agencies, Professional Development, Publications, Publishers, Research Centers, School Supplies, Testing Resources, and Software, Hardware & Internet Resources. Section Two includes 236 tables and charts in 24 total categories on national and state statistics. From elementary to post-secondary levels, these statistics and rankings include data not only on the American educational system, but also on Canadian and international education. Using the most current data available, this section helps to complete the picture for educators making career development decisions, for school administrators interested in comparing fiscal health and educational scores, and for anyone doing educational research. The main categories in this section include: Educational Attainment, Elementary & Secondary Education, Federal Programs for Education & Related Activities, International Comparisons of Education, Libraries & Educational Technology, Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, and Canadian Education Statistics. Following the statistics and rankings is a Glossary with over 100 education terms from Accountability to Vocational. Section Three contains three indexes to help the user save as much research time as possible: an Entry & Publisher Name Index with an alphabetical list of both entry names and the companies that publish the listed material; a Geographic Index featuring state-by-state listings of all entries; and a Subject Index organized by core subjects plus Special Education, Technology, and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) listings.
Review :
“This compendium of all things educational is a gold mine of data for administrators, students, grant writers, researchers, budget preparers, and just about anyone who needs a few statistics to spice up a PowerPoint. This single-volume reference brings together names, contact information, dates, research-information bits that seemingly should be easy to track down but often remain elusive. A quick glance at the table of contents hints at the comprehensive coverage: associations, conferences, consultants, financial, and government referrals, professional development, publications, overseas teaching opportunities, software, hardware, the Internet, and testing resources and supplies-and that’s just the first section. Part 2 presents national and state statistics (elementary and secondary, postsecondary, international comparisons, federal programs, libraries and technology, outcomes); Canadian data; and a glossary. Part 3 consists of three indexes: subject, geographic, and entry/publisher. Reference collections that support educators, students, and parents will want to make this available to their patrons, either in the print or online version. Now in its eleventh edition, the Educator Resource Directory remains the go-to reference for current education related queries.” -Booklist, Nov. 15 2015
“All school, public, and academic libraries need an up to date education directory to keep them abreast of new developments in the field and this is a worthy choice.” -ARBA
“Education professionals (including teachers, administrators, and librarians), researchers, and students entering the field will benefit… this directory will be a good ready-reference resource for K-12 professionals, as well as academic libraries supporting teacher education programs.” -ARBA
“This handy tool, appropriate for larger public and academic libraries as well as school districts, will be highly valuable to those writing education grants…” -Library Journal“Each section is organized clearly and logically… Each entry includes an address and telephone number, and sometimes a fax number and the name of a contact person. Three indexes--by entry, by publisher, and by subject--facilitate information retrieval. This is a well-organized directory…The work is recommended for all collections that serve elementary and secondary school professionals.” -ARBA
“A…thorough volume, the Educators Resource Directory is a useful but concise resource for any educator at any level in the educational process…A valuable and user-friendly tool, the Educators Resource Directory is a recommended purchase for any library, at any level.” -ARBA
“… It is notoriously difficult to find the correct contact person in two areas: submissions to publications and application for teaching abroad. Both of these areas are well covered in this encyclopaedia… Education professionals will be able to use this source for employment, publishing, and conference opportunities. Merely browsing the topics will most likely cause readers to discover new avenues they had not previously considered… This one volume has the capacity to save literally hours of valuable research time. While most of the information can be found scattered in other sources, this book will be a useful addition to a school system, public library, or academic library that offers degrees in education.” -Booklist
“In the hectic 21st century, one finds oneself searching for sources not previously available and sources which are concise and quickly assessable- freeing up one’s valuable time. The information that is provided in the Educators Resource Directory will go far in providing this well needed access for educators of the present and future. Whether one is in government, business, industry, university, college or public school level, this book is a must for all educators and trainers and shall be a primary source in their representative libraries.' -International Journal of Instructional Media
