This issue of the Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Technical Assistance Center's "ERCMExpress" introduces the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF), a free public service that provides information on planning, designing, funding, building, improving and maintaining safe, healthy, high-performance schools. NCEF is…

Five project activities of the American Federation of Teachers Teacher Center Resources Exchange are described in this report. The activity, rationale, accomplishments, and suggestions for modification are presented for the following group projects: (1) teacher center advisory group; (2) teacher center state network; (3) teacher center…

The Universal Serials and Book Exchange, Inc. (USBE), which serves as a centralized clearinghouse set up in 1948 by several American library and scholarly associations and the Library of Congress, receives, processes, and redistributes surplus and duplicate publications. During the first half of its operating life, USBE concentrated on the…

This is the inaugural issue of the Emergency Response and Crisis Management (ERCM) Technical Assistance Center's "ERCMExpress," and it focuses on the new technical assistance center. The center will support 243 grantees funded under the Emergency Response and Crisis Management program in managing and implementing their projects, and in sustaining…

The Educational Research Information Center (ERIC) is an educational information retrieval system. ERIC represents a decentralized, nationwide network of information Clearinghouses. Each Clearinghouse has its own area of subject specialization and retrieval responsibility, and is committed to acquiring, abstracting, indexing, storing, retrieving,…

Intended for parents and educators of special needs children, this guide highlights current research-based literacy resources available through the U.S. Department of Education which focus on special needs children. The networks of regional educational laboratories, research and development centers, and other education and research organizations…

This consumer education resource inventory contains information about the following resources available in the consumer education field: clearinghouses; data bases; resource centers; private organizations and associations; and federal, state, ano local agencies and offices. Section 1 contains program descriptions of seven clearinghouses. Each…

A study was conducted (1) to describe the specific services of seven major career education information and technical assistance systems, including (but not limited to) content of each system, services offered, clients served, procedures for use, cost for each service, service area (geographic), response formats, response time, and utility of…

One of several informative brochures being prepared to inform professional educators of the research and development activities of the Department of Curriculum of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, this booklet discusses the nature of the Modern Language Center and gives details of its scope, activities, and plans for developing…

Activities of the Center for Vocational and Technical Education at The Ohio State University are reported for the third quarter of the second year of its 5 year contract. The activities are reported under the headings of (1) Staffing, (2) Research and Development Projects, (3) ERIC Clearinghouse on Vocational and Technical Education, (4)…