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                   U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
          OFFICE OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND IMPROVEMENT
            NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS
                             EDsearch
                    Education Statistics on Disk

Researchers with access to an IBM-PC or compatible personal
computer may now take advantage of the 1993 edition of EDsearch:
Education Statistics on Disk.  This computerized search and
retrieval system provides an easy way to locate and display specific
information contained in the wealth of statistical tables
produced by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).

This edition of the program includes the complete contents of:

      1993 Digest of Education Statistics
      1993 Condition of Education
      1992 Condition of Education (29 indicators)
      Projections of Education Statistics to 2004
      1993 Youth Indicators
      Historical Trends:  State Education Facts 1969 to 1989
      120 Years of American Education:  A Statistical Portrait
      Education in States and Nations

The tables, figures, and text files are stored in a compressed form
which occupies only one-third the disk space they would normally
require.  The program's convenient menus and search screens offer
several powerful ways to retrieve and display information of
interest, by:

o  DESCRIPTOR TERM (KEYWORD) INDEX, which can be used to locate
   tables/files on a particular topic.

o  TABLE OF CONTENTS. The chapter and section headings for each
   document provide quick access to sets of tables.

o  FREE TEXT SEARCH of table/file titles and contents, allows for
   retrieval of tables and files which contain in their titles or
   contents specific character strings.

o  SAVED SEARCH, which allows for the saving of any set of
   tables/files, with any name of your choice, for reference and
   use in future searches.

Once a set of records has been defined and retrieved, the
individual tables and files can be displayed, printed, or saved to
disk in file formats which can be accessed and manipulated by most
word processors, spreadsheet, and database programs.

Hardware Requirements
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EDsearch is designed to operate on an IBM-PC or compatible personal
computer with a minimum of 640k of memory, a hard disk drive, and
PC/MS DOS 3.1 or higher.  Any standard PC monitor (MDA, CGA, EGA,
VGA, Hercules) may be used to perform almost all functions.  An EGA
or VGA monitor is required to display graphic charts and figures or
display more than 25 rows of text per screen.  The disk space
required depends on the install option selected; installation from
floppy disks requires a minimum of 8.5 megabytes of free space.
The package can be run from a Local Area Network file server.

Downloading and Installing the Software
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The software is available on the ED/OERI Gopher server under:

     Educational Research, Improvement, and Statistics (OERI & NCES)/
          National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)/
               Searchable Statistics/
                    EDsearch: Education Statistics on Disk - 1993/

The ED/OERI Gopher server can be accessed by pointing your Gopher
client software to:

     gopher.ed.gov

or through the ED/OERI WWW server, which can be accessed by pointing
your WWW client software to our uniform resource locator (URL):

     http://www.ed.gov/

FTP users can access the information by ftping to:

     ftp.ed.gov   (logon anonymous)

Please note that we do not offer public access Gopher or WWW clients.
You cannot access our server by telneting to our site.  You must
either have an appropriate Gopher or WWW client, such as NCSA Mosaic
or Lynx, at your site or be able to telnet to a public access client
elsewhere.

The software is available as a single 6.4 megabyte compressed file,
or as six compressed files which correspond to the six floppy disks
on which the package was designed to be distributed.  To obtain and
install the software, download all six files (or the single large
file) into a subdirectory on your PC.  Use PKUNZIP Version 2.04g or
higher (or an unzip utility which you can download from the Utilities
directory under About This Gopher) to uncompress the files.  Note
that during the download process the file name extension (.ZIP) may
be lost.  You may need to rename the files to re-add the .ZIP
extensions before the unzip utility will uncompress them.

Look at the files README.TXT and INSTRUCT.DOC to see how to use the
program.  It is not necessary to run the install program described
in the documentation.

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Keith M. Stubbs                                      (voice) 202-219-1803
Director, Education Info. Resources Div.               (fax) 202-219-1817
US Dept of Education/OERI                  Internet:  kstubbs@inet.ed.gov
555 New Jersey Avenue, NW  Rm 214c
Washington, DC  20208-5725

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College of Education                                 Glass@ASU.EDU
Arizona State University      602-965-2692           Tempe, AZ 85287-2411