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Description :ERIC Digests are: - short reports (1,000 - 1,500 words) on topics of prime current interest in education. targeted specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but - generally useful to the broad educational community. - designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic, plus references to items providing more detailed information. - produced by the 16 subject-specialized ERIC Clearinghouses, and reviewed by experts and content specialists in the field. - funded by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), of the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The full-text ERIC Digest database contains 1,884 Digests published through March, 1998. The database is updated quarterly.