Frost: Controversial and Current Issues  

3.       Human Trafficking (SIRS, Opposing Viewpoints, Global Issues in Context)

4.       Cell Phones in School (SIRS)

5.       Merit Pay for Teachers (SIRS)

6.       Educational Tests/Measurement (SIRS) and/or No Child Left Behind (books, Opposing Viewpoints)

7.       Health Care Reform (SIRS)

8.       Cheating (academic) (SIRS, Global Issues)

9.       Cosmetic /plastic surgery for adults OR teens (print books, SIRS, Opposing Viewpoints)

10.    Net Neutrality Laws (Global Issues in Context, Opposing Viewpoints)

11.    Web 2.0 (SIRS) (may also want to see “Internet” , “Teens and Technology”, in Global Issues in Context and print as well)

12.    Cybersocializing (SIRS) (may also want to see “Internet” , “Teens and Technology”, in Global Issues in Context and print as well)

13.    Downloading and File Sharing (SIRS, Gale Opposing Viewpoints) books)

14.    Privacy (there are several options for this that are outlined in SIRS--click on the link and read the options in the "overview")

15.    Illegal Immigration (all databases)

16.    Drilling for Oil (SIRS; called “offshore drilling” in Gale Opposing Viewpoints)

17.  Homeschooling (SIRS, Gale Opposing Viewpoints)

Additional Topics Generated by Ms. Frost's Classes

• Environmental Issues (you will need to narrow this topic down to a specific enviornmental issue--we have a ton of book on this topic as well as this fantastic ebooks in Gale in the box below).
• Global warming
• Consequences of the gulf oil spill
• Recycling:  we have books on this topic
• Tobacco and advertising
• Meds for ADD
• Screening at airports
• Adoption
• Immigration law
• Euthansia
• Animal rights /cosmetic testing
• Use of Alternative Medicine to treat disease
• Marriage laws
• Censorship
• Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell
• Gun Control laws
• Obsesity
• Teens/Driving
• Social Network:  see above resources on previous list
• Cyberbullying:  this was already on the list--see list above.  Be sure to also look in the last box on the lower left hand side for a new report on cyberbullying from the Pew Internet and American Life research project.

These resources can also be supplemented with Google News, NewsCred, Academic Search Complete via GALILEO (see widgets on sidebar to the left) 

*keep in mind SIRS has the “pro/con” outline as well as news articles, reference articles”; Opposing Viewpoints offers pro/con essays as well as news articles; Global Issues has a little bit of everything.