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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Raudenbush, Stephen W. – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
Understanding the impact of "instructional regimes" on student learning is central to advancing educational policy. Research on instructional regimes has parallels with clinical trials in medicine yet poses unique challenges because of the social nature of instruction: A child's potential outcome under a given regime depends on peers and teachers,…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Policy, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Research
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Prins, Esther; Toso, Blaire Willson – American Educational Research Journal, 2008
The Parent Education Profile (PEP) is an instrument used by family literacy programs to rate parents' support for children's literacy development. This article uses Critical Discourse Analysis to examine how the PEP constructs the ideal parent, the text's underlying assumptions about parenting and education, and its ideological effects. The…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Parent Participation, Parent Education, Child Rearing
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Ewing, E. Thomas – American Educational Research Journal, 2006
This article examines the 11-year Soviet experiment with boys' schools as a way to cast new light on scholarly research and public debates about single-sex education. Drawing on archival and published materials by educators who described school conditions, identified problems, suggested reforms, and evaluated remedies, the author argues that…
Descriptors: Males, Coeducation, Single Sex Schools, Educational History