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The New SIRS® Issues Researcher
Topical Pro/Con Coverage of 300 Leading Issues
Should embryonic stem cell research be allowed? Should schools and lawmakers do more to protect kids from cyberbullies? Should the North American Free Trade Agreement be abolished?
The newly enhanced SIRS Issues Researcher features editorially created and compiled content including Essential Questions with answers, viewpoint articles, and special features such as Global Impact and Statistics for 300 Pro/Con Leading Issues. Plus, Timelines and Research Guides are a click away.
Direct, concise information selected from more than 1,800 global full-text and multimedia sources help students connect and synthesize information on the most current topics and issues being studied and debated in your school.
Obtain the latest posters, flyers, and handouts for SIRS Issues Researcher, and be sure to show your students and staff our Fall 2009 update video podcast and additional short SIRS videos to get everyone up to speed during back to school time.
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SIRS Issues Researcher's new visual browse feature allows students to explore a topic for ideas, relationships, and context in sync with visual literacy standards.
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New Features & Content: Back To School
SIRS Knowledge Source
Student outcomes, as defined by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, require students to "access information efficiently (time) and effectively (sources)" and "evaluate information critically and competently."
To address these outcomes, all SIRS Knowledge Source solutions now include fresh research and learning tools such as Thumbnail Preview of Images in Results, Note Organizer, Embedded Citations, and Language Translation capabilities.
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Start-to-Finish Research Solution
SIRS Leading Issues
SIRS Issues Researcher's Leading Issues are scaffolded in a manner reflective of student research habits and Information Literacy standards.
Our expanded coverage of 300 Leading Issues (handout listing) is organized in a hierarchical structure, including main issues with sub-topics.
Critical thinking skills are promoted in SIRS Issues Researcher's systematic approach to accessing, evaluating, and sharing key content through these features.
Click above to view Research Steps
linked to SIRS Issues Researcher...
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SIRS Integration Idea
Leading Issue: The U.S. War on Drugs
SIRS Issues Researcher provides a variety of Leading Issues related to drug control including Drug Legalization; International War on Drugs; Marijuana Legalization; Medical Marijuana; U.S. War on Drugs.
Assign students a different issue from those listed above. Let students decide whether to support a Pro or Con position.
Should the U.S. end its war on drugs by decriminalizing and regulating drugs?
View our complete, ready-to-use lesson plan online, complete with essential questions for 21st-century learning.
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Censorship
Global Impact
"'If this country wants to be a real democracy, they should not prevent us from reading what we want and expressing ourselves,' said Emad al-Khafji, leader of an advocacy group called Tower of Babylon that organized the protest."
Iraqi Journalists Push for Press Freedom, Carefully
A quote from Iraq illustrates the quest for free expression is a human struggle beyond the borders of our nation. SIRS Issues Researcher brings global awareness to the front of Leading Issues through the new Global Impact feature.
Researchers can now analyze and evaluate International focus, attitudes, and action through articles, data, and statistics editorially selected from 300+ global sources. Link to Global Impact from Research Tools from every Leading Issue.
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Daily SIRS Updates
Issues Today
Plug into the latest national and global headlines with articles, graphics and multimedia in SIRS Issues Researcher. Today's News features dynamically-updated articles and commercial-free videos.
Top 10 Leading Issues is now updated daily based on usage statistics. As always, credible and relevant content is added everyday to help students make sense of the major issues. Retrieve the latest product updates via SIRS 50 Newest Graphics and Articles by clicking "Images" above the search box.
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Enroll & Save: Vendor of Choice Program
At ProQuest, we know that many of our customers are facing budget cuts (ProQuest CEO message). With each passing month, it's becoming more difficult to afford all of the online research resources you would like to provide to your students.
In response, we've put a program in place to help you during these hard times. ProQuest's new Vendor of Choice program has already helped schools just like yours save thousands of dollars. Find out more and enroll today.
New SIRS Issues Researcher Icon
Cleared for school reuse. Right-click, Save Picture As...
More Icons & "Spread the Word" Tools
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SIRS + ProQuest Back to School Videos
What's New: Live from San Francisco
Welcome back! Click a product icon above to find out what's new in each solution for the new school year, including SIRS Issues Researcher.
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SIRS Spotlights + Challenge Quests
On September 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed by 39 delegates from 12 states.
Our new SIRS Spotlight of the Month explores the history, principles, and impact of the U.S. Constitution and the responsibilities of citizenship.
Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) releases a list of challenged library books.
SIRS asks: How does the ALA define a "challenge" to a book? Search query: challenge AND book (by date)
Top 3 Websites
Each month, our SIRS team scours the Internet for top-quality websites for schools and students. Dive into this month's selections: Right to Die, Swine Flu (All)
SIRS "The Human Element"
See our SIRS editors in animated action!
  
SIRS Training Video &
Podcast Archives
CultureGrams Highlight | Provinces Edition
CultureGrams can help broaden your students' understanding of the world. Visit
Prince Edward Island in our
Provinces
Edition.
Did You Know? Anne of Green Gables is set in Avonlea on Prince Edward Island?
SIRS Current Events, Political Cartoons, Graphs + More
What makes our SIRS solutions so special? It's the human element. Every day, our SIRS Discoverer editors post hand-picked articles and resources. Tap into a short list of the most topical articles added
to SIRS in recent weeks. Did you know that SIRS Discoverer offers
charts and graphs plus
map activities,
geared for youngsters? SIRS Discoverer even offers
political cartoons.
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