Subject Guides: Special Education: Resources for the Special Education Classroom

Useful Websites for Teachers

Special Education News
A newspaper about special education. Includes resources, lesson plans, and news in the field of special education.
teAchnology
An online teacher resource for Kindergarten through High School teachers. Includes lesson plans for special needs students. Includes free worksheets. Different membership levels, but basic use is free.
Teachers.net
A website for teachers that includes lesson plans, chat, job sites, mailrings, etc.

ERIC This link opens in a new window
ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center contains full text of more than 2,200 digests as well as citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals.
Education Database This link opens in a new window
Offers in depth information on myriad educational topics from nearly 400 leading journals in the field. The database covers not only literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
World Education Encyclopedia This link opens in a new window
This country-by-country survey of educational systems provides detailed essays on the histories, legal foundations, and primary and secondary educational systems of 233 countries.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to the archives of over 390 academic journals in the arts and sciences.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for 4000 academic social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive database covering over 160 subjects. It includes the full-text of over 400 newspapers, nearly 30,000 dissertations and millions of articles from scholarly journals.