It has always bothered me that we train teachers and administrators in our school law classes to use tools they won't have access to when they leave our programs. We are better off providing them some knowledge of free legal resources instead, even if those resources are not as stellar as Lexis or Westlaw. On top of that, the vast majority of the educational law consuming public also does not have access to these pay-per-use databases.

So, I put together a 5 min. free educational law research instructional video that I hope you will find helpful. Feel free to use this in your educational law courses or to recommend this video or the techniques in it to your educational law instructors. I think even experienced researchers will find some new tools in this video.