Describes the ERIC system, giving special attention to the means by which the Educational Media and Technology Clearinghouse can be of service to educational television specialists. Lists publications available from the Clearinghouse. (LS)

Summarizes the first phase of a federally funded study of 157 clearinghouses that store data on human services. Factors addressed include the tasks of a clearinghouse, its potential for overlap, its relationship to its parent organization, the types of product and services it provides, and how it uses its database. (FM)

The Physically Impaired Association of Michigan (PAM) is now providing through the PAM Assistance Centre a clearinghouse and referral service for the handicapped, their families, school and agency professionals, and other advocates. (Author)

This article describes the Software Evaluation Clearinghouse for Educators of the Hearing Impaired at Gallaudet University (Washington, DC). Software compatible with Apple and IBM hardware is collected, rated by clearinghouse members, and described in a printed catalog. Tips on starting a software lending library are offered. (PB)

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…

How do individuals know when, and what, to resist? Alan Schoenfeld, in the March 2006 issue of "Educational Researcher," tells a story of resistance that all math educators, and all curriculum specialists, need to consider. Schoenfeld titled his story, "What Doesn't Work: The Challenge and Failure of the What Works Clearinghouse to Conduct…

The American Association of School Librarians (AASL)/Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)/Young Adult Library Service Association (YALSA) Joint Task Force on School/Public Library Cooperative Activities has been collecting and disseminating information about cooperative activities around the country since the first meeting in January…

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…