The young thousand talents (YTT) program has been the largest among various global diasporas attraction programs in China, and its impact assessment has generated mixed results. Using the first five groups of YTT program members as the treatment group, this study constructed a control group using a local and focal matching strategy and enhanced…

The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is an investment of the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. Its purpose is to provide educators, policymakers, researchers, and the public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence on what works in education. The WWC's goal is to produce high-quality products that help…

The authors survey the economic education programs and resources produced and supported by the Federal Reserve System: from K-16 professional development opportunities for teachers and professors, to free lesson plans, videos, online learning modules, and readings ready for the classroom. They provide the history, goals, context, and reach of the…

Formerly Educators Resource Directory, Educators Resource Guide is designed to provide educators, administrators, and other education professionals with immediate access to a unique combination of educational resources, along with important educational statistics and rankings. Educators Resource Guide includes associations, publications, trade…

Formerly "Educators Resource Directory," "Educators Resource Guide" is designed to provide educators, administrators, and other education professionals with immediate access to a unique combination of educational resources, along with important educational statistics and rankings. "Educators Resource Guide" includes…

Formerly "Educators Resource Directory," Educators "Resource Guide" is designed to provide educators, administrators, and other education professionals with immediate access to a unique combination of educational resources, along with important educational statistics and rankings. "Educators Resource Guide" includes…

The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) is a nonprofit national association representing more than 2,500 individual members as well as 685 graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. Founded in 1952, this partnership of educational and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and private citizens is…

An annotated indexed bibliography lists 534 information analysis publications produced by the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) Clearinghouses during 1973-1975. These publications include bibliographies, research reviews, state of the art and interpretive studies, and similar papers which are designed to list, organize, review, and…

Since 1910, the Library of Congress (LC) has collected state publications and announced them in its Monthly Checklist. Over 26,000 titles were listed in 1973, but this does not represent a complete record of official state publications. If a state does not have a law requiring that a copy of each publication issued be sent to the LC, the coverage…

State-of-the-art" type survey covering: (1) publishing scene for Latin American materials; (2) Latin American Studies in primary and secondary schools, and in higher education in United States; (3) activities of U.S. organizations concerned with Latin American activities; (4) development of Latin American Studies abroad, with emphasis on Western…

This guide provides an overview of the National Education Research and Development Centers sponsored by the Office of Research of the U.S. Department of Education. Information provided for each of 23 centers includes the nature of the center's work, its location, and the names of its principal researchers. Center listings are divided into two…

This bimonthly newsletter offers a forum for discussion of research library issues and actions. Regular features include: Current Issues; Office of Scientific and Academic Publishing; Federal Relations; Coalition for Networked Information; Office of Management Services; ARL Activities; and ARL Calendar. Newsletter highlights include the following…

Key events in the area of early childhood education for the year 1981 that have implications for young children in the United States are summarized in this booklet. (Author/RH)

The Federal Writers' Project was undertaken as part of the New Deal's Work Projects Administration, in order to provide work relief for unemployed writers and white-collar workers whose skills would not have been well utilized in construction projects. This historical account is based on extensive examination of surviving documents and on…

This paper begins with an overview of ERIC that provides background on the system's decentralized structure, the bibliographic database, document availability, and ERIC publications. The historical development of ERIC from the early 1960s is described and illustrated with a chronology of selected major ERIC events from 1965 to 1991 and a table…