LexisNexis^® Scholastic Edition

Content

Content is organized into four areas: News, Legal Research, Legislation, and Statistics.

News

Students receive access to up-to-the minute breaking news stories, as well as the most comprehensive news archive available through a rich variety of authoritative sources.

• More than 50 leading newspapers from the U.S. and around the world, many same day of publication, including extensive archives of the New York Times and the Washington Post, dating back to 1980.
• More than 175 regional newspapers
• More than 40 magazines with content ranging from general interest to specific subject areas. Examples include: Business Week, U.S. News & World Report, American Journalism Review, The Economist, Nations Business, Newsweek, and Variety.
• Hard-to-find broadcast transcripts from the major television and radio networks, including ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, National Public Radio and CNN.
• Wire services, updated many times daily, include such respected names as Associated Press, Business Wire and PR Newswire.
• Foreign language news sources are available in Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch.

Legal Research

Provides authoritative information on landmark federal decisions and individual state laws that shape the way we live.

This section includes:

• U.S. Supreme Court cases (from 1789 to today) searchable by keyword, party name or citation
• State High Court cases from all 50 states searchable by keyword, party name or citation
• Law review articles from over 500 publications
• All federal laws from 1988 to the present
• State law digests from all 50 states

Legislation

Introduce your students to the excitement of government in action! With the Legislation area of LexisNexis Scholastic Edition, students can easily follow the Federal and state legislative process, tracking both bills under consideration and bills passed. There are facts about members of Congress, voting records, and much more.

Your students get:

• U.S. and state bill tracking reports
• U.S. and state bill text
• Congressional Record with debates from the House and Senate floors
• Profiles of members of Congress and Congressional voting reports
• State legislative calendars

Statistics

Find statistics fast from more than 40,000 indexed tables using LexisNexis PowerTables functionality. Students can easily retrieve statistical tables using simple keyword searches. Tables are drawn from federal, state, private, and international sources, including:

• Bureau of the Census
• Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Environmental Protection Agency
• World Bank
• National Science Foundation
• Small Business Administration

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