<LI>Announcement of a summer institute on Geometry, the Internet and the Coalition of Essential Schools
<LI>Conference on supporting the emotional needs of gifted children
<LI>Update on the Society and the Future of Computing conference
<LI>Call for papers for Information Seeking in Context conference
</UL>
<LI>Education News
<UL>
<LI>Scientists Standing By - 800 number available on Apr 26
<LI>Internet Public Library now online
</UL>
<LI>Government Info
<LI>Internet Resources
<UL>
<LI>Software
<LI>Disinfectant3.6
</UL>
<LI>K-12 Resources
<UL>
<LI>Arts & Humanities
<UL>
<LI>The Gallery
<UL>
<LI>Cezanne's "Houses Along a Road": from Usenet
<LI>Renoir's "Roses and Jasmine in a Delft Vase": from Usenet
<LI>Renoir's "Low Tide at Yport": from Usenet
<LI>Pisarro's "The Fair in Dieppe, Sunny Morning": from Usenet
<LI>Cezanne's "Mont Sainte-Victoire": from Usenet
</UL>
</UL>
<LI>Disability Resources & Information
<LI>English
<UL>
<LI>The Library
</UL>
<LI>General
<UL>
<LI>Pointer to the Teacher Education Internet Server
<LI>An article by Meredith Ludwig discusses commonalities between Higher Education and K-12 in how they use technologies and suggesting ways in which they could learn from each other.
<LI>Education Technology
<UL>
<LI>Pointer to the Distance Education gopher at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
<LI>Pointer to Educational Technology Initiatives at University of Warwick, UK
<LI>Pointer to the Information Technology Training Initiative gopher
<LI>Pointer to the Instruction Development Services gopher
<LI>Pointer to the Online Journal of Distance Education and Communication archive.
</UL>
</UL>
<LI>Health, PhysEd and HomeEc
<LI>Languages Other than English
<LI>Math, Science & Technology
<UL>
<LI>Math Topics
<UL>
<LI>Pointer to Journal of Statistics Education archive
</UL>
<LI>Science, Ecology
<UL>
<LI>Pointer to University of Idaho's EM Power 4-H waste management curriculum for grades 6 through 9.
</UL>
<LI>Technology
<UL>
<LI>Pointer to Journal of Technology Education archive
</UL>
</UL>
<LI>Occupational and Technical
<LI>Other Educational Gophers
<UL>
<LI>Pointer to the International Education Forum gopher
</UL>
<LI>Social Studies
<UL>
<LI>American Studies, Scenes and People, California
<UL>
<LI>Photo of beach in northern California, near Mendocino
<LI>Photo of redwood forest near Leggett, California
</UL>
<LI>American Studies, Scenes and People, Washington
<UL>
<LI>Three photos of the rain forest, Olympia National Park, near Forks, Washington.
</UL>
</UL>
</UL>
<LI>TelecommInfo
<UL>
<LI>Reading Room
<LI>Reference Desk
</UL>
<LI>TelecommNews
<UL>
<LI>Odd de Presno's The Online World has now become a hypertext document on the Web.
<LI>The Richmond Journal of Law and Technology now available on the Web.
<LI>GopherVR for Unix, Xwindows available
<LI>The home page for Information Technology in a Globay Society is .now open
</UL>
</UL>
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<CENTER><B>ED/OERI World Wide Web/Gopher/FTP Servers</B></CENTER><BR>
<P>
Please read the following digest for site information
and Internet access to the educational resources.
<CENTER><B>U.S. Department of Education (ED)</B></CENTER><BR>
<CENTER><B>Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI)</B></CENTER><BR>
<CENTER><B>Recent Additions to ED/OERI WWW/Gopher/FTP/Mail Servers</B></CENTER><BR>
<P>
Recent noteworthy additions to the ED/OERI World Wide Web, Gopher,
FTP, and Mail Servers include the following:
<P>
<UL>
<LI>1994 Condition of Education
<LI>Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR)
<LI>68 new ERIC Digests
</UL>
<P>
(All of the above files are available in ASCII plain text format; many are also available in html format. All are available through World Wide Web as well as Gopher and most are available through FTP and our Almanac mail server. See the end of this message for access instructions.)
<P>
In addition, significant changes to our World Wide Web site include:
<UL>
<LI>An Invitation to Your Community (new hypertext version)
<LI>Redesigned "Other Educational Resources" Area
</UL>
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<CENTER><B>1994 Condition of Education</B></CENTER><BR>
<P>
The 1994 Condition of Education, one of the major annual publications
of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), includes sixty
indicators on the condition of education. It provides a means to
report where progress is being made in education and where it is
not, to draw attention to emerging issues, and to inform the ongoing
policy debate. The sixty indicators are organized into six sections:
<UL>
<LI>Access, Participation, and Progress
<LI>Achievement, Attainment, and Curriculum
<LI>Economic and Other Outcomes of Education
<LI>Size, Growth, and Output of Educational Institutions
<LI>Climate, Classrooms, and Diversity in Educational Institutions
<LI>Human and Financial Resources of Educational Institutions
</UL>
<P>
Instead of separating elementary and secondary education from
postsecondary education indicators, the volume integrates issues
ranging from early childhood education to postsecondary education
into each of the six sections.
<P>
The main textual sections of the volume may be viewed online. The
complete contents of each section are available for downloading in
a compressed file which contains all text and tables in ASCII and
graphics in GIF format.
<P>
The 1994 Condition is available on the Gopher under:<P>
Sixty-eight new ERIC Digests have been added to the full-text
searchable WAIS database.
<P>
The WAIS database now contains a total of 1,368 ERIC Digests.
The full text of each Digest is included, along with selected
information from the ERIC bibliographic record--author, title,
publication date, and ERIC descriptors and identifiers.
<P>
ERIC Digests are:
<UL>
<LI>short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education.
<LI>targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community.
<LI>designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic, plus references to items providing more detailed information.
<LI>produced by the 16 subject-specialized ERIC Clearinghouses, and reviewed by experts and content specialists in the field.
<LI>funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), of the U.S. Department of Education (ED).
<CENTER>in the body of the message type: send catalog (avoid the use of signature blocks)</CENTER>
<P>
Please note that:
<UL>
<LI>We do not offer public access Gopher or WWW clients. You must either have an appropriate Gopher or WWW client, such as NCSA Mosaic or Lynx, at your site or be able to telnet to a public access client elsewhere.
<LI>You cannot access our public servers by telneting to our site. You will be denied telnet access.
<LI>Gopher and Mosaic/Lynx are the preferred access methods. Our FTP directories remain somewhat cryptic and the e-mail server is by its very nature a slow method to get documents.
</UL>
<CENTER><B>Questions and Comments</B></CENTER><BR>
<P>
If you have any suggestions or questions about the contents of the
WWW, Gopher, FTP, and Mail servers, please use one of the following
(NOTE: The Department does not offer public access Gopher or WWW clients. You cannot access the server through Telnet sessions with the Department's site. Readers will need either an appropriate Gopher or WWW client (e.g., NCSA Mosaic or Lynx) at their sites or must be able to Telnet to a public access client elsewhere.)
<P>
Comments, suggestions, or questions about the Department's Gopher server
and follow the selections from the instructions given on the Main Menu for connecting to the Federal Gateway. Once in the Gateway, select the listing for ED Board. FedWorld will connect to ED Board via modem. The help desk number at FedWorld is (703) 487-4608.)
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submitted by Gregory Vick --- U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC
