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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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Bargerhuff, Mary Ellen – American Secondary Education, 2013
This single site case study examines the ways a particular STEM school in its first year of operation meets the unique needs of freshmen students with disabilities (SWD). Specific research questions address primary supports and challenges to the learning of SWD, and the working relationship among general and special educators and administrators. A…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Disabilities, Student Needs, Semi Structured Interviews
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Robinson, Helene – American Secondary Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine teacher qualification factors believed to affect reading achievement of students with disabilities in intensive reading classes after controlling for certain student and teacher demographics using ANCOVA. Results indicated that there was no statistically significant difference between the reading…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Reading Achievement, Disabilities, Teacher Influence
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Stein, Gabriela Livas; Hussong, Andrea – American Secondary Education, 2007
This study examines high school expectancies in a sample of at-risk, rural youth, and how these expectancies relate to 8th grade functioning, 9th grade functioning, and 9th grade experiences of high school. A total of 76 eighth-graders and their parents, drawn from a larger study of the transition to high school, participated in interviews the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Rural Youth, Grade 9, Educational Environment
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Butts, Michael J.; Cruzeiro, Patricia A. – American Secondary Education, 2005
The purpose of this article is to share school research that studied the factors perceived by students as having the greatest influence regarding their transition from eighth grade to ninth grade. Students at a large comprehensive Midwestern high school completed a survey in which they rated the items they believed assisted them in finding success…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 9, Student Attitudes, Influences