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Watson Library has a variety of books and ebooks on Communication Arts and related topics. The books listed below are a sampling of what we have available in the library - to find more, check our library catalog, or contact us for help!  

• A history of American higher education. By John R. Thelin. -- Available through the library catalog as a book
• Into the classroom: a practical guide for starting student teaching. By Rosalyn McKeown. -- Available through the library catalog as an eBook
• Connecting teachers, students, and standards: strategies for success in diverse and inclusive classrooms. By Deborah L. Voltz, Michele Jean Sims, Betty Nelson. -- Available through the library catalog as an eBook
• Educational policy and practice: the good, the bad and the pseudoscience. Volume 1, Education theory and policy. Edited by Jason E. Warnick, Kyla Warnick and Autumn Laffoon. -- Available through the library catalog as an eBook    

Credo Reference is our scholarly alternative to Wikipedia. It allows you to search hundreds of reference books on a wide variety of subjects. Use this search box to browse Education and related topics from titles including:

Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory

This encyclopaedia is a dynamic reference and study place for students, teachers, researchers and professionals in the field of education, philosophy and social sciences, offering both short and long entries on topics of theoretical and practical interest in educational theory and philosophy by authoritative world scholars representing the full ambit of education as a rapidly expanding global field of knowledge and expertise.

Springer Science+Business Media 2017

World Development Report 2018 : Learning to Realize Education's Promise

Every year, the World Bank's World Development Report takes on a topic of central importance to global development. The 2018 Report, Learning to Realize Education's Promise, is the first ever devoted entirely to education.This title explains that education has long been critical for human welfare, but is even more so in a time of rapid economic change.

World Bank 2018

Education department -- campus website 

• Ohio Department of Education
  The website for the Ohio Department of Education
• Southern Ohio Educational Service Center
  "Through our three locations, we provide a wide variety of services to our member districts including curriculum development and in-service training; special education services; speech, language and hearing services" - Serves Adams, Clinton, Fayette, and Highland county 
• American Federation of Teachers
  Teacher's Union - "The American Federation of Teachers, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO, was founded in 1916 and today represents 1.72 million members in more than 3,000 local affiliates nationwide"
• National Education Association
  Teacher's Union - "NEA has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities across the United States" 
• We Are Teachers
  "Ideas and inspiration for reaching the next generation" - free resources and ideas 

Our extensive Juvenile Collection is located on the first floor and is available to all Wilmington College students. If you need alphabet books, Dr. Seuss, fairytales, board books, popular YA fiction titles like Harry Potter or Percy Jackson, or other children’s books for a class or project, stop by the library!

The Following are a small sampling of the kinds of books we have in this collection: 

• The ABCs of Black history. Words by Rio Cortez ; pictures by Lauren Semmer. -- Available through the library catalog as a book
• G is for galaxy : an out of this world alphabet. Written by Janis Campbell & Cathy Collison and illustrated by Alan Stacy. -- Available through the library catalog as a book 
• The lightning thief. By Rick Riordan. -- Available through the library catalog as a book 
• The graveyard book. By Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Dave McKean. – Available through the library catalog as a book