Oregon's Business Education Compact is a clearinghouse for businesses and schools seeking to develop partnerships. Both groups pay membership fees and receive services that nurture mutually beneficial relationships. (SK)

Describes the Canadian Space Resource Centre, a clearinghouse for space-related material for classroom use. Explains that the facility has resources from the Canadian, U.S., European, and Japanese space programs. Discusses resources, including videotapes, slides, curriculum and lesson guides, and print material. (SG)

This article discusses the waning interests on research-based models. Some experts and program developers say "research proven" programs are getting a smaller and smaller share of the pie under the 7-year-old initiative now called the Comprehensive School Reform program, as schools opt instead for home-grown and commercial programs with weaker…

The Individuals With Disabilities Education Improvement Act and the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 require that students with disabilities be included in statewide assessments and general education accountability systems, thereby placing increased demands on special education teachers. At issue is how new teachers are prepared to respond to…

The "ERIC Calendar of Education-Related Conferences" was begun in 1970 as a list of the meetings that the ERIC Clearinghouses planned to attend in the coming year. It was a coordinative tool informing the decentralized components of the ERIC network about the conference-related activities of each component and thereby preventing…

The Clearinghouse was formed to try to topple job carriers for ex-offenders. (BP)

This report describes the background of the Association of Research Libraries Microform Project and summarizes results of the survey from which the database of the project's clearinghouse on the bibliographic control of microforms has been constructed. The Microform Project was established in 1981 to assist libraries, microform publishers, and the…

A dissemination center for information concerning learning systems would prevent uninformed buying on the part of users and would tighten quality control on the part of producers. (LG)

This directory of academic, public, and special libraries offering library instruction programs provides the address, name, and phone number of a contact person, and a brief description of the program. The annotated bibliography includes 39 recent articles on library instruction divided into these categories: general, guides and signage,…

Designed to assess the current and potential markets for ERIC products and develop a marketing plan based on the study findings, the project described obtained data through two surveys, as well as background information from the National Institute of Education. Interviews with ERIC Clearinghouse staff during site visits provided data on the…

Databases and clearinghouses useful in education are described in this two part document. The first section contains one-page summaries of 55 databases of interest to people in education. The types of information provided by the various databases are indicated, including bibliographies, funding information, statistics, government publications and…

THIS FIRST ISSUE OF A QUARTERLY PUBLICATION ANNOUNCES THE AVAILABILITY OF DOCUMENTS ACQUIRED AND PROCESSED BY THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) CLEARINGHOUSE ON VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION. IT CONTAINS ABSTRACTS OF RESEARCH AND OTHER MATERIALS WHICH ARE USEFUL TO RESEARCHERS, SUPERVISORS, TEACHER EDUCATORS, EDUCATION…

A REVIEW OF 16 INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH REPORTS IN THE CLEARINGHOUSE FOR JUNIOR COLLEGE INFORMATION INDICATES THE TYPE OF EFFORTS BEING MADE BY JUNIOR COLLEGES TO REDUCE THEIR NUMBERS OF DROPOUTS. QUESTIONNAIRE STUDIES, ANALYSIS OF STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, AND ADJUSTMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ARE TYPICAL PRACTICES. INSTITUTIONAL…

A CUMULATIVE EDITION, CONTAINING TWO "INFORMATION BRIEFS" AND THREE "NEWSLETTERS," OF THE 1ST YEAR'S PUBLICATIONS OF ERIC/CRIER IS PRESENTED. THE EDUCATION RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER/CLEARINGHOUSE ON THE RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION AND EVALUATION IN READING IS A JOINT PROJECT BETWEEN THE INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION AND…

JUNIOR COLLEGE RESEARCH IS TYPICALLY "INSTITUTIONAL" WITH APPLICABILITY ONLY TO THE SPECIFIC INSTITUTION. MOST REPORTS RECEIVED AT THE CLEARINGHOUSE DESCRIBE COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF POPULATIONS (ENTIRE CLASSES, STUDENT BODIES, ETC.) INVOLVING NO SAMPLING PROCESSES. DATA WERE COMMONLY COLLECTED THROUGH RECORDS SEARCHES AND PRESENTED IN…