Depending on your location and particular interests, you may have numerous sources of information available to you—local and education media outlets, allied professional associations, and so on.

Of course, if your interest is in the area of policy, we recommend going to the information outlets of the policymakers themselves. Developing and expressing an informed response to policy is much more effective when you’ve first taken the time to gain an in-depth understanding of the policy itself and the issues it was designed to address.

Many school districts and most national or state/provincial departments or ministries of education have extensive websites where policy and curriculum documents are available. At the federal level in the United States, for example, you can visit

The White House