This comprehensive volume offers a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 2,500 or more students. You'll find important contact information for each school district (name, address, phone number and web site) plus Grades Served, the Numbers of Students and Teachers and the Number of Regular, Special Education, Alternative and Vocational Schools in the district. Also, The Comparative Guide to American Elementary & Secondary Schools provides statistics to help evaluate educational programs including Student/Classroom Teacher Ratios, Number of Librarians, Number of Guidance Counselors, District Expenditures per student and a National Socioeconomic Indicator for the District. A useful City Index lists all districts that operate schools in the city. These important comparative statistics are necessary for anyone considering relocation or researching a particular school district and would be a perfect acquisition for any public library.

This comprehensive volume offers a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 2,500 or more students. You'll find important contact information for each school district (name, address, phone number and web site) plus Grades Served, the Numbers of Students and Teachers and the Number of Regular, Special Education, Alternative and Vocational Schools in the district. Also, The Comparative Guide to American Elementary & Secondary Schools provides statistics to help evaluate educational programs including Student/Classroom Teacher Ratios, Number of Librarians, Number of Guidance Counselors, District Expenditures per student and a National Socioeconomic Indicator for the District. A useful City Index lists all districts that operate schools in the city. These important comparative statistics are necessary for anyone considering relocation or researching a particular school district and would be a perfect acquisition for any public library.

Offers a profile of every public school district in the United States serving 1,500 or more students and provides pertinent evaluative and demographic statistics necessary to evaluate educational programs nationwide.

Read professional, fair reviews by practicing academic, public, and school librarians and subject-area specialists that will enable you to make the best choices from among the latest reference resources. This newest edition of American Reference Books Annual (ARBA) provides librarians with insightful, critical reviews of print and electronic reference resources released or updated in 2017-2018, as well as some from 2019 that were received in time for review in the publication. By using this invaluable guide to consider both the positive and negative aspects of each resource, librarians can make informed decisions about which new reference resources are most appropriate for their collections and their patrons' needs. Collection development librarians who are working with limited budgets—as is the case in practically every library today—will be able to maximize the benefit from their monetary resources by selecting what they need most for their collection, while bypassing materials that bring limited value to their specific environment.

Focusing on English-language publications of the last decade, this guide identifies and describes key reference and information sources in the field of education today. In addition to general reference sources O'Brien covers major social science reference sources that have a direct or overlapping relationship to education. Nearly 500 entries are arranged by subject and type of work. Most are new to this work. For example, there are now a number of Internet sources with URL addresses and an increased number of journals, which reflects the increasing reliance on periodicals as information sources. The book has also been completely reorganized, with new chapters covering Educational Technology and Media; Multilingual and Multicultural Education; Adult Alternative, Continuing and Distance Education; Curriculum, Instruction, and Content areas; Educational Research, Measurement, and Testing; and so forth. Excluded are lists of education associations and organizations, general social science refe

This up-to-date resource presents more than 4,000 national, regional, local and international lists and rankings compiled from hundreds of respected sources. Entries typically include a description of the ranking; background information on criteria for establishing the hierarchy; additional remarks about the ranking; the complete or partial (if extensive) ranking; and a complete source citation for locating additional information if necessary.

This comprehensive volume offers a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 2,500 or more students. You'll find important contact information for each school district (name, address, phone number and web site) plus Grades Served, the Numbers of Students and Teachers and the Number of Regular, Special Education, Alternative and Vocational Schools in the district. Also, The Comparative Guide to American Elementary & Secondary Schools provides statistics to help evaluate educational programs including Student/Classroom Teacher Ratios, Number of Librarians, Number of Guidance Counselors, District Expenditures per student and a National Socioeconomic Indicator for the District. A useful City Index lists all districts that operate schools in the city. These important comparative statistics are necessary for anyone considering relocation or researching a particular school district and would be a perfect acquisition for any public library.

The only guide of its kind, offering a snapshot profile of every public school district in the United States serving 1,500 or more students--more than 5,900 districts are covered. Organized alphabetically by district within state, each chapter begins with a two-page Statistical Overview of the State. Next, each district listing includes contact information (name, address, phone number and web site) plus Grades Served, the Numbers of Students and Teachers and the Number of Regular, Special Education, Alternative and Vocational Schools in the district along with statistics on Student/Classroom Teacher Ratios, Drop Out Rates, Ethnicity, the Numbers of Librarians and Guidance Counselors and District Expenditures per student. Plus, unlike any other resource, The Comparative Guide to American Elementary & Secondary Schools provides important ranking tables, both by state and nationally, for each data element. These important tables allow the user to quickly find out how a district compares with other districts on several different elements. For easy navigation through this wealth of information, this handbook contains a useful City Index that lists all districts that operate schools within a city. These important comparative statistics are necessary for anyone considering relocation or doing comparative research on their own district and would be a perfect acquisition for any public library or school district library.

Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.