For Primary Sources, Make Infobase Your First Stop
Anyone who wants to study history needs access to primary sources—copies of the documents, photographs, recordings, and other content created during the period being studied. Historians turn to primary sources first when doing research, but it’s not just historians who benefit from them. Primary sources are absolutely crucial to students who are learning about history, […]
Find Reliable Teens’ Health Resources in Health Reference Center
We know that a solid health education for young people is crucial for them—not just to keep them healthy in the short term, but to help them maintain good health habits as adults. Alcohol, anxiety and depression, family life, fitness and nutrition, online safety, stress, substance abuse, vaping—all of these issues pose challenges to teens […]
Issues & Controversies’ “Bill of Rights in Debate” Gets Amended
The U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights consists of just 10 sentences—some of which are fairly vague—and Americans have debated their meaning and interpretation for more than 200 years. Understanding how the Bill of Rights shapes debate in American society is critical to understanding who we are as a nation and is one of the core […]
8 Key Advantages of Online Learning
Let’s face it: the last year or so has been about the weirdest time any of us can remember. The pandemic has completely changed the way we think about so many things, but undoubtedly one of the biggest shifts has been from a 9–5 working day to a work-from-anywhere (and at any time) mentality. It […]
Transgender Athletes: A Featured Controversy from Issues & Controversies
Featured in Issues & Controversies: TRANSGENDER ATHLETES: Should Transgender Women Be Allowed to Compete in Women’s Sports? Should trans women be allowed to compete in women’s sports? Be sure to check out Issues & Controversies’ complete and unbiased coverage of this divisive issue. Here is a sample of the pro/con arguments on both sides of […]
Explore Professions with Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center’s Career Videos
Are the job seekers at your school or institution looking for concrete, reliable information about what it really takes to succeed in a career? Ferguson Career Guidance Center has just what they need. Ferguson’s Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight videos provide no-nonsense, insider’s perspectives from working professionals across multiple industries, from account manager to […]
Empowering Administrators Through Social and Emotional Learning
Being an administrator is a challenging and stressful job. So, before we begin, we’d like to say: THANK YOU. No one signed up for Pandemic Principal-ing. For students to succeed, we need to focus on the well-being of educators. For educators to succeed, we need to focus on the well-being of administrators. It’s all connected. […]
Voting Rights: A Featured Controversy from Issues & Controversies
Featured in Issues & Controversies: Voting Rights: Should Congress Pass a New Voting Rights Act? Should Congress pass a new Voting Rights Act? Be sure to check out Issues & Controversies’ complete and unbiased coverage of this divisive issue. Here is a sample of the pro/con arguments on both sides of the issue. SUPPORTERS ARGUE Recent […]
Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center Is a 2021 CODiE Award Finalist
Infobase is proud to announce that Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, the award-winning reference database for lifelong career exploration and planning, has been selected as a finalist in the SIIA CODiE Awards’ “Best College & Career Readiness Solution” category! Read the full press release here. This distinction, per the SIIA CODiE Awards’ website, “recognizes the best […]
Issues and Controversies Receives 2021 MLA Awards’ Gold Distinction: Q&A with the Editor
Issues & Controversies recently received Gold distinction in the 2021 Modern Library Awards (MLAs), sponsored by LibraryWorks. Each year, the MLAs recognize the top products and services in the library industry in a truly unbiased format. We wanted to follow up this great honor with a conversation with Andrew Gyory, Infobase’s Editor-in-Chief of Issues & […]
How to Improve Teacher-Student Communication in Virtual Classrooms
With home working and remote learning on the rise, it’s an important time to consider whether you are optimizing teacher-student communication. Learning institutions, teachers, and students have all had to adapt to a changing landscape. What’s great, however, is that teleconferencing, video apps, and call center solutions have enabled learning centers to provide a virtual […]
6 Tips to Build and Manage a Digital School Library
As students transition further away from physical learning resources and deeper into the online educational realm, digital libraries represent the future of learning for coming generations. There are several reasons for this change, which range from better access to a greater spectrum of choice. But before we dive into why and how digital libraries can […]
