Parents, teachers, researchers and education policy formulators are affected. “Eric’s disbursement would limit public access to critical education research, hindering the evidence -based practices and vital policy decisions for the progress of US education,” he sent an email to Gladys Cruz, a superintendent of a school district called Questar III Boces outside Albany, New York and a former president of the AASA, the Association of School Superintendents.
Proposed half the cost
Pollard Young said that before leaving the Department of Education, I was working frantically to meet a Duxt demand to cut Eric’s annual budget, from $ 5.5 million to $ 2.25 million. The cuts were painful. It would have to reduce 45 percent of the magazines added to the database each year. The public aid table would be eliminated. And Pollard Young had agreed that the personal valley assume the additional task of communicating directly with 1,500 editors, something that had managed the AEM education services, a supplier that collects, analyzes and administers data for the government.
These proposed cuts do not satisfy Dooge. Pollard Young said he received an email response in all limits: “This is not approved”, with a request for more information. Pollard Young presented additional information but never received an answer. He lost access to his email to approximately a week later, on March 11, the day Polyrd Young and more than 1,300 employees of the Department of Education lost their jobs in a Mass shot.
Pollard Young was the only employee of the Department of Education who participated daily with Eric. She supervised a team of 30 contractors at AEM Education Services, who did most of the work. Adding documents to the digital library implies many steps, from determining its importance to the catalog and indexing them. It is the Metadatao Descriptive labels, which AEM inserts behind the scene that allows Eric documents to be discovered and rise to the top in Google searches. But the public can also search directly on the Eric website.
“Curious fact,” Paige Kowalski, executive vice president of the data quality campaign, an organization that advocates data -based decision -making in schools, published on LinkedIn. “Around the 20 years that DQC has bones, we have had some poor websites designed with atrocious search functions. I could not find resources that I wrote! But I could always find them in Eric. Great resource.”
Most of the collection consists of articles of academic magazines. Many are full text PDF that would be inaccessible behind the payment walls. Eric also contains books, federal, state and local reports and doctoral theses.
Gray Literature
One of its gems is the large amount of “gray literature”, which Pollard Young described as unpublished studies of private research organizations and reports of the school district that are not classified in EBSCO, a private database of academic documents. That is another reason why Google and AI cannot simply replace this Eric Curada collection. “In education so much research, produced outside the magazines,” said Pollard Young. “RCT big and important [randomized controlled trials] They are in white papers “or special reports.
In response to specific questions about Eric’s future, the Department of Education responded more widely on the need to restructure the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), where ERIC is managed. “Despite spending hundreds of millions in taxpayers’ funds annually, the IS has failed to fulfill its mandate to identify the best practices and new approaches, this improves the educational results and the vicilances of close achievement Bernann, the attachments of Bieds, in the statement sent by email of Biederts.” The department is more important to actively evaluate the studies of the studies to the studies of the studies to which they are more of the studies to which they are established by an institute with the institute to which they occur more. results while maintaining rigorous scientific and effective costs. “
It is still possible that Dege approves the reduced budget proposal this week before money is exhausted. But there will be no one in the Department of Education to supervise or communicate with the editors. “The best of cases, Eric operates in half or its budget,” Polyrd Young published on LinkedIn.
Like other employees of the Department of Education who were fired in March, Pollard Young is on administrative license until June. But she said she is willing to risk the possible reprisals of the administration and talk about the registration about the threat to Eric, which she had achieved for more than a year of boxes.
“I am aware of which are some of the consequences,” said Pollard Young. “But for me, it is important that the field knows that I am doing everything in my power to save Eric and also that the country understands what is happening. While I am talking to people from all over the country, it is clear that they do not completely understand what is happening in DC with luck we can exert some pressure so that we can maintain financing or recover it.”
