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Download full textCahape, Patricia – 1993
Begun in 1969, the Migrant Student Record Transfer System (MSRTS) records, maintains, and transfers education and health information on over 600,000 migrant children in 49 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This information is used by local educators dealing with individual migrant students, and by local, state, and federal…
Descriptors: Coordination, Databases, Educational Cooperation, Elementary Secondary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Teacher Education, Washington, DC. – 1986
This digest highlights features of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), explains how to use the system most effectively, and offers suggestions on how teacher education faculty can present and use the ERIC system to supplement classroom instruction. Following a description of how resources in ERIC can be helpful to teachers and…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Databases, Educational Resources, Higher Education
Stonehill, Robert M. – 1992
Ten commonly held misconceptions about the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) information system are presented together with a brief discussion of the facts for each one. These factual responses provide the following overview of the ERIC system. ERIC is a national information system that includes 16 clearinghouses and four support…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Clearinghouses, Databases, Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children, Reston, VA. – 1989
This digest offers basic information about resources, available to users of personal computers, in the area of professional development in special education. Two types of resources are described: those that can be purchased on computer diskettes and those made available by linking personal computers through electronic telephone networks. Resources…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Teacher Education, Washington, DC. – 1986
This digest highlights features of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), explains how to use the system most effectively, and offers suggestions on how health and physical education teacher education faculty can present and use the ERIC system to supplement classroom instruction. Following a description of how resources in ERIC can…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Databases, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Clay, Katherine – 1985
Designed to demonstrate that the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is a useful source of information for educational practitioners at all levels, this digest provides an introduction to the ERIC system and describes the National Education Practice File Project (NEPF). This 2-year project was designed to find out from…
Descriptors: Administrators, Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Information Dissemination
