World Opinion Research
The links below are provided to help our students analyze the opinion of others and come to their own reasoned conclusions. We want our students engaged in serious exploration of the major issues of our day, such as health care, the energy crisis, crime, foreign policy, and gender relations.
| Maps in the News | National Center for Policy Analysis: Idea Place - analysis, debate, and in-depth research from around the world. The policy archive has research studies, both sides presents a huge assortment of pro/con discussions |
| Curriculum Standards for Social Studies: Executive Summary | National Issues - works as a great starting point for overview articles and concise summaries of the pros and cons |
| Death Penalty Information - state by state data, courtroom cases, arguments for and against, stages of a capital case and history | One World - for the latest coverage of this week's events |
| Documents in the News - identifies issues making news headlines and provides links to major news stories, government documents and court decisions | Open Directory: Issues - the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory on the Web |
| Policy Action Network - a consortium of top public policy organizations and advocacy groups providing timely information and leading ideas about policies and politics that shape our world | Opinion Pages - access to current editorials, opinions, commentaries and columnists from English newspapers |
| TheFence - online debate forum | Opinions/Editorials Headlinespot - features editorials and commentaries from 38 different metropolitan newspapers |
| 1st Headlines - gathers headlines from major news sources on an array of current topics | The Paperboy - read today's issue of a newspaper; select by country or by state |
| Frontline Issues - since 1983, Frontline has served as the flagship public affairs series for American public television - PBS | Political Resources on the Net - organized by region or by country, gathers links on political parties, organizations, government, and local media |
| Google Social Issues | Politics1:Directory of Political Debates and Issues - links to other sites advocating a variety of ideologies and links to information on all sides of issues from abortion to international trade |
| Headline Spot - gathers all of the major news sources in one convenient interface; world news gathers news from international sources | Polling Report - public opinion can help students promote a particular viewpoint; another good site is Gallup |
| High School Debate topics | Public Agenda Online - issue analysis covers understanding the issue, a digest of recent stories, facts and trends presented in graphs, three perspectives on the issue |
| Hot
Issues -These pages contain brief but thorough background essays on
key education issues in America today. |
Public Education Network |
| Hot Topics in Education - offers links to such topics as school uniforms, block scheduling, plagiarism, and character education; another good site for this kind of information is EdWeek | Social Issues - collects, annotates and sorts Web links by position; offers a collection of primary sources and government documents to support the sites |
| Internet Public Library: Issues and Conflicts | Town Hall: Issues Library |
| International Affairs Resources | United Nations University- Collection on Critical Global Issues |
| Links to the News - gathers a manageable group of resources on most major stories; dates back to 1995 | Women's Human Rights Resources |
Thanks to Joyce Valenza, librarian at Springfield Township High School in Erdenheim, Pennsylvania. She provided this list to The Book Report, November/December 2001