This study reconsidered school effects on college enrollment by focusing on strategies that schools use to facilitate college transitions. It also examined whether school strategies influence different outcomes for students from different racial/ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Using data from the High School Effectiveness Study, the analysis…

The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) provides online reports to the public about the scientific evidence for educational interventions. The quality of these reports is important because they effectively tell the non-scientific community which programmes do and do not work. The aim of this brief review is to assess WWC's report on a clinically…

Information about the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics (CLL), part of the federal ERIC education network and database that is housed at the Center for Applied Linguistics, is offered. Ways to find ERIC/CLL documents and access the ERIC database are outlined. (LB)

A major part of Arthur M. Cohen's scholarly legacy is the archive of documents and journal articles catalogued by the ERIC Clearinghouse for Community Colleges, which he led throughout its entire 37-year history (1966-2003). As Clearinghouse director, Cohen oversaw its document acquisition and cataloguing operations, as well as its extensive…

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, founded in 1987, serves as a clearinghouse for National Board Teacher Certification whereby individuals must demonstrate competence and professional teaching excellence through a two-part process. Accordingly, this particular advanced level of teacher certification has perpetuated the…

Two issues of "Now Available" are followed by one issue of "ERIC the Read." These newsletters, produced by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Educational Media and Technology during 1973, contain announcements and short articles. Clearinghouse publications, recent acquisitions, and new media…

During a 28-month period beginning in January 1988, the ERIC Clearinghouse on Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation (ERIC/TM) selected documents submitted by over 800 organizations for entry into the ERIC database. Twenty-three organizations, which submitted 595 (31 percent) of the 1,904 documents accepted by ERIC/TM during that period, are…

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 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)

The ALMACA Clearinghouse for Employee Assistance Program (EAP) Information collects and disseminates EAP-specific data to provide subscribers with information to maintain their own competence and to improve upon the understanding and use of EAP practices and procedures. (JOW)

Describes applications of HyperCard, including SuperDuper Gradebook and HyperMedia Information Retrieval System (HIRS). Also described is the creation of an instructional software library called the HyperMedia and Instructional StackWare Clearinghouse (HISC), which will evaluate programs for educators, trainers, and instructional technologists.…

Because the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE) ceased to exist on January 1, 2004, the responsibility for preparing the "ERIC/EECE Report" has been transferred to the Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative. ECAP consists of a group of projects and programs in early childhood education within the…

Describes the ERIC system, the ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children (ERIC/CE), and the Exceptional Child Education Resources (ECER) database produced by ERIC/CE's sponsoring agency, the Council for Exceptional Children. Results of a search run on both databases are compared, and ways to avoid duplication of citations are…