"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) "The Nation's Report Card": Too Many High School Seniors Unprepared for College-Level Math and Reading; (2)…

This bibliography lists newsletters of interest to those concerned with historic preservation; all titles were selected from those currently being received by the National Trust Library. Each entry specifies the name of the newsletter, its frequency of publication, its publisher, business address, types of articles published, subject areas…

This listing of clearinghouses, directories, newsletters, and journal columns presents information on library instruction resources based on responses to a mail survey conducted in the spring of 1980. A clearinghouse is defined as a center which collects library instructional materials for loan and/or on-site inspection. Seventeen clearinghouses…

The first two ERIC at Stanford newsletters are followed by the first four numbers of "Now Available." The newsletters produced by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearninghouse on Educational Media and Technology contain announcements and short articles. "Now Available" also lists documents processed for…

This collection of six newsletters from the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Educational Media and Technology reports activities and materials published by the clearinghouse during 1970. A departmentalized "current awareness" list of documents recently added to the national ERIC collection is initiated.…

The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Information Resources reports its activities, publications and newly-acquired materials in this collection of three newsletters from 1975. A guest article on instructional television funding in Ohio and a listing of Bicentennial materials are included. (DS)

This newsletter reports the growth of alternative schools from 1973 when 464 alternative public schools in 36 states were identified to 1975 when 1,250 such schools can be listed. Charts illustrate the growth distributed by states. The reasons for growth are presented as publications, professional recommendations, accreditation procedures, state…

This newsletter is divided into four sections: an introduction, news items, communications from readers, and "Aristocracies of Learning in Russia and the West." This last section contrasts the problem of the intellectual schism between Western scientists and literary men with the traditional partnership among dissident intellectuals in…

This document presents a guide to newsletters and other serial publications concerned with topics of interest to educators and researchers working with young children. The guide is divided into three main areas: (1) General Early Childhood Newsletters, (2) Special Interest Newsletters, including newsletters on such topics as bilingual/biracial,…

This issue, focusing on peace education, is one of approximately six newsletters which are issued each year by International Peace Research Association (IPRA). The purposes of IPRA are to conduct interdisciplinary research dealing with conditions of peace and causes of war; promote national and international studies and teaching related to the…

A short description of the availability of Harvard Project Physics course components is given as is a discussion of the growth of the use of Project Physics in schools, including some enrollment data and survey results. Locations of the 1970 and 1971 Summer Institutes are listed. Adaptations of Project Physics course outside the United States are…

The 78-page work is the first description of the Princeton University Library collection of periodicals produced by and for American Indians. It lists 271 periodicals representing tribal, institutional, and individual publications o the native Americans. (LS)

Instant reference books were created on popular topics at the reference desk as a method of providing access to pamphlet information normally contained in an open access vertical file. Results show that the books have helped diminish losses of materials while at the same time providing easy and quick access to information. (JPF)

This 22-item annotated bibliography examines English-language economics periodicals (newsletters, scholarly journals, letters journals) which began publication during the period 1975 to 1984. Editor of the most recent issue examined, publisher's address, frequency, year of first issue, International Standard Serial Number, where indexed, and brief…

Reviews recent publications in online database literature including three newsletters ("Database Update,""Database Alert," and "Information Hotline"), a directory ("Guide to Online Databases"), and a textbook ("Online Reference and Information Retrieval" by Roger C. Palmer). The new "Guide to Searching ONTAP ABI/INFORM" is noted. (EJS)