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WIlliam,
Could you add this to the MidTESOL web site under Socio-Political Concerns.
Thanks.
-Lois Spitzer
To: "TESOL USA Advocacy E-list"
Subject: [advocacy-usa] FW: ACTION ALERT: ERIC Clearinghouses on the Chopping
Block!
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 09:58:46 -0400
ACTION ALERT: ERIC Clearinghouses on the Chopping Block!
The U.S. Department of Education has issued a draft plan for a "New
ERIC" system. Unless this plan is modified, all 16 Clearinghouses and
their services will be eliminated and there will be a dramatic change in
the content of the ERIC database. The public has an opportunity to
comment until May 9, 2003.
The plan for the "New ERIC" makes the following changes:
* Closes all 16 ERIC Clearinghouses
* Eliminates personalized reference and referral services
* Terminates AskERIC and clearinghouse question-answering services
* Ends all networking and outreach! activities, including ERIC-sponsored Listservs
* Shuts down Clearinghouse Web sites currently visited by 22.5 million unique
visitors a year
* Eliminates ERIC Digests, books, and other synthesis publications
* Reduces coverage of the journal literature from 1100 journals to an estimated
400
* Restricts consumer access to information, limiting ERIC database coverage
to "approved lists" of journals and document contributors
There is still time to change it!
If the proposed changes do not reflect your vision of ERIC, ask
Secretary Paige and your legislators to change their plan to include all
16 ERIC Clearinghouses with their information services and user-friendly
products and Web sites; and to continue comprehensive coverage of the
education literature. Please make your views known by May 9 to:
Secretary of Education Rod Paige
Fax: 202-401-0596 (on letterhead. please)
Email: Rod.Paige@ed.gov
Your State'! s Senators:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Your Congressional Representative:
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
For additional up-to-date information on ERIC, please visit:
ERIC Reauthorization News
http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/education/doe.htm
Added to the WWW on 04/29/2003
SOCIO-POLITICAL CONCERNS/
PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
-Lois Spitzer
