• Gale Databases:

Use the "Power Search" option or the Topic Finder to do a keyword search on your topic.

• ResearchIt CT:

• ScholasticGO:

• Infobase Issues and Controversies- helps researchers understand today’s crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education, and popular culture.

• Google Scholar: A freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines

ProCon.org- The country's leading source for pro, con, and related research on controversial issues. ProCon.org uses professional researchers and rigorous editorial standards to explore more than 80 controversial issues from gun control and death penalty to illegal immigration and alternative energy. "Education" topic

Allsides.com- Uses media bias ratings to provide balanced news, perspectives and issues across the political spectrum.

EducationWeek.org- the comprehensive cornerstone for the most in-depth information and research serving K-12 Education.

Times Topics- topic pages about people, places, organizations, and subjects. Each topic page collects all the news, reference and archival information, photos, graphics, audio and video files published about the topic on NYTimes.com.

New York Times Current Events

• PBS.org- topics: civics and politics

• First Draft

• Shorenstein Center

• FactCheck.org

• Snopes

• PolitiFact

• Hoax-Slayer

• Purdue Online Writing Lab- The basics of writing a business letter

• ALA Sample Letter to Elected Officials

• Mr. Clement’s Format

• BeBusinessED.com- How to contact Congress and the Senate

• Town of Somers

• Boards and Commissions

• House of Representatives - State of Connecticut

• Senate Information - State of Connecticut

• Find your United States Senators

• Find your legislator in the House of Representatives