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Privacy Rights Clearninghouse: Employment Background Checks
This site is helpful to both the applicant and the interviewer. Information is given regarding what data can be found through a background check. Explains how employers can gather information themselves. Lists certain topics that can't...
PBS
Pbs News Hour: The 1998 Federal Budget
Transcript of PBS )nterview (from "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer") with OMB Director, Franklin Raines, discussing the rationale behind the 1998 Federal budget proposed by the Clinton Administration.
Princeton Review
The Princeton Review: Career Articles and Advice
Explore this large career and academic list of career articles and advice. Great tool for researching career planning and employment topics. Site by Princeton Review.
Free Management Library
General Guidelines for Conducting Interviews
Gives different types of interviews. Lists six types of topic questions. Explains how to word questions and carry out the interview.
Read Works
Read Works: Passages: "War Stories"
[Free Registration/Login Required] The passage "War Stories" is a collection of three interviews with people who experienced some aspect of World War II collected as a part of the "Eyewitness to History" Contest. Comprehension questions...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Research Sources
This slideshow lesson focuses on research sources by listing 10 types of sources: books, periodicals/magazines, newspaper articles, scholarly articles, databases, reviews, interviews, lectures, media (film, television), and websites. It...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Analyzing Your Primary Data
This entry focuses on analyzing primary data including interviews, surveys, and observations. It also warns against over-generalization and explains the advantages of the triangulation of data.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Latino Americans Share Their Experiences
Students examine the challenges that three Latino Americans faced and overcame as they achieved success in their careers. This interactive lesson introduces students to playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, actor Judy Reyes, and astronaut Jose...
California Digital Library
The Jack London Story and the Beauty Ranch Interviews
This unique site offers biographical information about Jack London and interviews the grandson of London's step-sister, who now manages the ranch.
Library of Congress
Loc: Experiencing War: African Americans: Fighting Two Battles
Online personnel narratives by African American soldiers who participated in World War II.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Changing Places
This is a mini-unit that helps students explore immigration through many different resources. Students will learn about Chinese immigrants, and then investigate their own cultural heritages.
Web Center for Social Research Methods
Research Methods Knowledge Base: Plus and Minus of Survey Methods
Advantages and disadvantages of survey methods: questionnaires and interviews.
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Broadway.com: Broadway Buzz
Broadway Buzz provides editorial coverage of all aspects of the theater, including the latest news, interviews with actors and playwrights, opening-night reviews, and top theater headlines.
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St. Norbert College: Employment Interviews
This is a mini course on the Interviewing Process. Factors of the interview both pro and con are given. Several links are available for more detailed information regarding perspectives on the interviewer and the interviewee.
Other
Joan Aiken: Wolves and Alternate Worlds
This is short biography & an excerpt of an interview with children's author Joan Aiken. She speaks about her influences, ideas, and future writings.
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Abraham Sinkov Interview Excerpt: Move Into Cryptologic Field
This is the text and audio of an excerpt from Abraham Sinkov's interview describing how he came into the Signal Intelligence Service to begin a career in the new cryptologic field. It was recorded on April 20, 1930.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Maniac Magee
Have you ever read "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli? Use this resource to learn more about this book. An educational resource with discussion questions, extension activities and more.
Curated OER
Cbc Digital Archives: For Teachers: Atwood as Interviewee
Lesson takes students through the process of analyzing and summarizing an interview with Margaret Atwood.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Fried Green Tomatoes & Cultural Crossroads
Having read Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, students will conduct research through an interview with an elderly person from the community (a field trip to local nursing home facility) to determine the...
EL Education
El Education: Faces of the Depression
This book was created by 5th graders in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, as part of a learning expedition on the Great Depression. Students learned about the Depression though several different sources: in addition to standard historical...
Education.com
Education.com: Sl.2.4 Worksheets, Workbooks, Lesson Plans, and Games
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets and lesson plans can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of telling a story or recounting an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive...