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| Example search queries for basic search | |||
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| If you enter: | Results will include: | ||
| "advanced placement" | Will return only articles containing the exact phrase "advanced placement." | ||
| advanced placement | Will return articles that contain both the word "advanced" AND the word "placement," though not necessarily as a phrase. (Note there is no need to include a plus (+) sign.) | ||
| "test scores" -college |
Will return articles that contain the phrase "test scores" but do not mention the word "college" (Note: The minus sign must be directly before the term—no space.) | ||
| Example search queries for either advanced or basic search | |||
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| reauthoriz* | Placing an asterisk (*) before or after a word will return articles containing words with that root word in it. For instance, this search would return articles containing the words "reauthorization" and "reauthorize." | ||
| ~drink | If you want to search not only for your search term but also for its synonyms, place the tilde sign (~) immediately in front of your search term. For example, ~drink, will return articles about "drinks," "beverages," etc. Anything that is a synonym of your search term. | ||
Edweek.org gives you two ways to search our site: "basic" (the search box in the upper right-hand corner of each page), and "advanced" (in the left-hand navigation on most pages).
The basic search form will automatically search these sources: Education Week, Teacher Magazine, The Daily News, the EPE Research Center, as well as Issues A-Z, Glossary, and Organizations. It will search all dates in our database, back to 1981, and return results based on relevance—that is, the top articles will be those that contain multiple occurrences of all of your search terms. On the results page, you can refine your search using the form at the bottom of the page, or page through additional results.
When you enter search terms into the basic search, the search engine assumes there is an AND between each term, meaning it will return articles that contain all of the words that appear anywhere in the article (though not necessarily together). However, if you enclose your search terms in quotes, the search engine will search for that exact phrase. You may use a minus sign (-) to indicate words that should be excluded (see examples in the box, above right).
If you click Advanced Search in the left-hand navigation of summary pages, you'll get a more detailed search form that allows you to specify an exact phrase, or one of several words you enter, the sources you wish to search, the date range, whether you want to have the results ordered by date or by relevance, and where on the page you wish to find your search terms.
In either the advanced or basic search you may use the following symbols:
An asterisk (*) can be used as a wildcard (see example above);
An tilde (~) can be used to search synonyms of a word based on a thesaurus ( see example above).