This two-volume annual report is the first in a series of reports summarizing the activities and accomplishments of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) program. The second volume discusses trends and issues in the areas of education covered by each of the clearinghouses. These discussions focus on critical research findings and their implications for practice, and provide notes and references to help interested readers obtain additional information. In order to document and chronicle trends in their scope areas, writers from each of the clearinghouses used a variety of sources, including documents and journal articles in the ERIC database, clearinghouse publications, searches of ERIC and other databases, and discussions with clearinghouse advisory board members and other professionals in the field. Discussions of trends and issues are presented for the scope areas of each of the 16 clearinghouses: (1) Adult, Career, and Vocational Education; (2) Counseling and Personnel Services; (3) Educational Management; (4) Elementary and Early Childhood Education; (5) Handicapped and Gifted Children; (6) Higher Education; (7) Information Resources; (8) Junior and Community Colleges; (9) Languages and Linguistics; (10) Reading and Communication Skills; (11) Rural Education and Small Schools; (12) Science, Mathematics and Environmental Education; (13) Social Studies/Social Science Education; (14) Teacher Education; (15) Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation; and (16) Urban Education. A directory of the ERIC Clearinghouses is appended. (EW)