ERIC Clearinghouse Closed

12/29/2003

"Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle." - Saint Basil

ERIC CLEARINGHOUSE CLOSED

On December 31, the U.S. Department of Education closed the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education after 36 years of operation. Included in this termination are the elimination of the provision of Web sites (including the National Parent Information Network-NPIN), question answering, and Listserv lists.

The Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been the organizational "home" for ERIC/EECE. After January 1, 2004, public domain materials, including ERIC Digests and other publications, Frequently Requested Information listings (FRIs), and Web Guides will be available for your browsing or for downloading at the ECAP Web site: http://ecap.crc.uiuc.edu/info. In addition, the Early Childhood Research & Practice Journal, a peer-reviewed Internet-only journal will continue in 2004, expanding to become a completely bilingual (English and Spanish) journal, with funding from the Bernard van Leer Foundation in the Netherlands.

For more information about ECAP, ECAP projects, and ECRP, visit: http://ecap.crc.uiuc.edu/projects.html

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