August 2001

ERIC Systemwide Publications   Approved for Bulk Distribution National Early Childhood   Technical Assistance System   (NECTAS) Now an Adjunct   ERIC Clearinghouse New Edition of Thesaurus of   ERIC Descriptors Now   Available "Academic Redshirting" AskERIC Update Assessment and Evaluation   Abstracts Child Care FAQs Community Colleges Abstracts Educational Facilities Hot Topics ERIC Digests Database "Faith-Based Child Care   Resources" Languages and Linguistics   Digests Literacy Links New Classification System for   Two-Year Institutions Planning and Designing for   Students With Disabilities "Teaching Keyboarding" Adult, Career, and Vocational   Education Community Colleges Disabilities and Gifted Education Elementary and Early Childhood   Education Entrepreneurship Education Higher Education Languages and Linguistics Social Studies Teaching and Teacher   Education Return to ERIC Systemwide site Send comments to Editor

New Edition of Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors Now Available The 14th Edition of the Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors—the definitive reference guide that contains the terms used to index documents in ERIC—is now available. The 14th Edition features more than 200 new Descriptors and more than 200 terms that were previously Descriptors but have now been demoted to USE references. More... ERIC Digests Database Eighty-five new ERIC Digests have been added to the Department of Education's full-text searchable database, which now contains 2,419 Digests published through June 2001. Teaching and Teacher Education (ERIC/SP) Report Overview of the Preparation and Certification of Teachers Working with Low English Proficiency Students Kate Menken, Beth Antunez, Mary E. Dilworth, and Said Yaskin 59 pp.   Internet only.    Published by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Teaching and Teacher    Education,the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, and    the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, this    report describes the preparation of teachers of English language    learners in institutions of higher education throughout the United States.    This descriptive study combines wide-scale survey data with qualitative    analyses.