Talk:Education Facilities Clearinghouse

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	This article was accepted on 5 July 2014 by reviewer Voceditenore (talk · contribs).

Text and/or other creative content from this version of National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities was copied or moved into Education Facilities Clearinghouse with this edit on 5 July 2014. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

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I've expanded and cleaned up the original draft of this article. It had been written not as an encyclopedia article but as an alternative web site for the EFC in its current incarnation (i.e. the one run by George Washington University). It also lacked any kind of contextualization and assumed that Wikipedia's readership are all Americans and automatically understand what terms like "preK-12" mean. Note that this incarnation is less than a year old but the program itself dates back to 1998. The most notable incarnation of the initiative was the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (1998–2010). The article now has a History section detailing the background prior to the current program as administered by GWU. I've merged the material from the short article created in 2008, National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities (NCEF), into this article's History section and redirected the NCEF article to this one. Given the US Department of Education's track record, and the fact that the current funding for this incarnation of the EFC is only for three years, this article may well need updating in the future. Voceditenore (talk) 13:16, 5 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]