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How can the federal government help education-related clearinghouses?

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A survey of 100 education-related clearinghouses reveals that most are supported by the federal government; there is a great deal of redundancy among them in content and types of information covered; and that with the exception of the ERIC system clearinghouses, there is little coordination among them. This article suggests how Congress and the Department of Education can influence and coordinate clearinghouse activities to make it easier for educators to acquire the information they need to cope with the knowledge explosion expected to continue into the 1990s.

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Susan S. Klein is a senior staff member in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, where she has worked with the ERIC Clearinghouses. Dr. Klein is now providing technical assistance on dissemination issues to the Select Education Subcommittee of the House of Representatives. Over the years she has helped manage research, evaluation, and dissemination programs in the National Institute of Education and the U.S. Office of Education. She has published in the areas of educational equity, dissemination, and evaluation, and recently edited and contributed to a special issue ofKnowledge, Creation, Diffusion, Utilization on “Federal Programs in Educational Dissemination.” She is on the board of the Knowledge Utilization Society.

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Klein, S.S. How can the federal government help education-related clearinghouses?. Knowledge in Society 3, 26–44 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02687225

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