Excelencia in Education aims to accelerate higher education success for Latino students by providing data-driven analysis of the educational status of Latino students, and by promoting education policies and institutional practices that support their academic achievement. This second brief of a three-part series on Hispanic-Serving Institutions…

Managing work and family responsibilities is particularly difficult for military families with children. While military life has always been demanding, in recent years an increasing number of military personnel in both the Active Duty Force and Selected Reserves have had to confront the additional demands of parenthood. Providing resources to…

ICT has enabled a wide dissemination of information and a sharp increase in the magnitude of electronic information sources. The use of e-information sources by healthcare personnel within Saudi Arabia has received little research attention. This paper discusses the use of e-information sources by healthcare personnel in the kingdom. A…

With the 2008 election quickly approaching, candidates continue the scramble to fund their campaigns--collecting money from individuals, corporations, and labor unions. Students can learn a great deal about the political system by examining how politicians are financed. The vast majority of high school students do not understand the influence of…

The Web has become a vast and appealing source of information for undergraduate students writing academic papers. While some online resources are comparable in quality to the materials housed in a library, newly accessible, Web-specific genres, such as interest groups, often undermine traditional expectations of scholarly authority, rigor, and…

Fish consumption advisories fail to adequately help communities address the benefits and risks of eating potentially contaminated fish. We engaged community members and relevant institutions in identifying and implementing more effective risk communication in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula. In 2004-2005, we collected data in four Michigan…

Imitation of people on educational television is a potential way for very young children to learn new skills. Although toddlers in previous studies exhibited a "video deficit" in learning, 24-month-olds in Study 1 successfully reproduced behaviors modeled by a person who was on video as well as they did those modeled by a person who was present in…

The development and use of a research tool to guide fourth-grade students' use of information sources during a research project is described in this article. Over a period of five weeks, 21 fourth-grade students in an international school in Singapore participated in a study investigating the extent to which the use of a "research resource…

A library of 20 FORTRAN computer programs has been compilied, modified, and edited to provide in a single source a series of test scoring, data reduction, and evaluation programs for educators having access to small business-oriented computers. Summary details are provided for each program. (Author)

The article provides a useful list of publications and other sources of information on earnings. (Author/BP)

A practical guide when seeking information and documents from the FCC. (HB)

This bibliography reflects the teacher center experience of the past several years and provides a reference pool for those interested in developing and/or improving teacher center programs. The materials cited are listed alphabetically by author and cover many different aspects of centering, including something of the experience in several other…

Discusses growth of associations in United States (groups that are membership-based, cooperative, nonprofit or not-for-profit, dedicated to common purpose, voluntary) and identifies nine different types: trade associations, professional associations, labor unions, sci/tech and learned societies, leisure associations, political action committees,…

As long as people want to see entertainment programs that deal with real people and problems and as long as people tune into newscasts that feel they must entertain as well as inform, that thin line between news and entertainment will remain a twilight zone filled with superficiality and sensationalism. (RM)

The ERIC system is introduced and described. Six examples of ERIC document resumes of particular interest to history teachers are offered as a sample of the kinds of information available from ERIC. (SM)