The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally funded nationwide information system established to provide easy access to information about education research. ERIC is supported by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and is administered by the National Library of Education. Unlike most federal information systems, in which all activities are conducted under one roof with centralized control, ERIC conducts much of it its document processing and dissemination activities at decentralized and relatively autonomous clearinghouses.
ERIC was created in 1966 as the Educational Research Information Center by the United States Office of Education; a year later its name was changed by substituting “Resources” for “Research” (the acronym remained ERIC) because ERIC had grown into a national education information system of service to educators and researchers.
(BURCHINAL, L. G., & CULLIGAN, J. J. (2002). Educational Resources Information Center. In J. W. Guthrie (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Education (2nd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 683-684). New York: Macmillan Reference USA.)

This collection originated at one of the clearinghouses affiliated with Teachers College, Columbia University (directors Edmund Gordon, Erwin Flaxman), which was responsible for Urban Education. Materials research the educational problems of the disadvantaged child and discuss ways of dealing with them.

The Education for the Disadvantaged ERIC collection consists of publications, articles, papers, accession sheets, and catalog cards. This website provides contents description for the 43 boxes (##1-41b) containing publications and papers. To see them, go to All Posts or click here.