How do you cite Barack Obama's February 2001 interview on TheHistoryMakers? That's what students in several ENGL 102 & 103 classes are asking after using TheHistoryMakers database of oral history videos of leading African Americans as a source for their term papers. (Background: what is TheHistoryMakers?)

Thanks to (Humanities/Social Sciences Librarian) Larry Milliken scouring the web for examples, we are happy to share these guidelines. Take your pick - these work for any YouTube videos you might cite as well!

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The world is yours to explore! That's the message these great library resources can help k-12 teachers share with their students. Where's Myanmar? What do people there look like? What's the weather like? What do they do for a living? How about their art? Religion? Music? Government? Demographics? Demo-what? Help your students answer these questions and more with the great lineup of free and subscribed resources described below.

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Finding experts to interview when you need to support a key point in your research can be a challenge. One new resource that can help is a database of oral history videos from notable African Americans. Drexel’s Hagerty Library is one of only six institutions nationwide to offer this advanced video database fromTheHistoryMakers.org

This is a beta version of an oral history archive that features 400 contemporary African-American leaders discussing their lives and careers. Imagine having a relaxed personal conversation with central figures in contemporary American history. For students who need to an authoritative quote on the big issues of our time, TheHistoryMakers is the next best thing.

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Thanks goes out to the Philadelphia Public School Notebook for this collection of background on the candidates for the position of Philadelphia School District CEO:

Hi - at the Notebook, we've been examining published information about the finalists for the CEO position. We don't have our planned blog up and running yet, but we wanted to share the links we've collected to help people get a fuller sense of what's already in the public record about the apparent finalists as reported in last Friday's Inquirer and today's Daily News: #1
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A study in the journal Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, surveyed 118 German schoolteachers who had been teaching for an average of 20 years. It showed that parents can have a big impact on a teacher’s happiness and stress. The issue of teacher burnout is important because American schools today are experiencing high levels of teacher turnover as baby boomers retire and new teachers leave the field. The National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future has calculated that nearly a third of all new teachers leave the profession after just three years, and that after five years almost half are gone.

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