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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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McIntosh, Hugh; Berman, Sheldon; Youniss, James – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2010
In September 2003, Hudson High School in Hudson, Massachusetts, launched two new civic development efforts--clustering and schoolwide governance--that provide an opportunity to study the influence of schoolwide democratic deliberation on students' civic knowledge and participation. The intervention involved, in part, organizing the school into…
Descriptors: Intervention, Citizenship Education, Grade 12, Citizen Participation
McIntosh, Hugh; Berman, Sheldon H.; Youniss, James – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2007
In September 2003, Hudson High School in Hudson, Massachusetts launched two new civic development efforts--clustering and schoolwide governance--and moved into a new building designed to facilitate them. Clustering is designed to achieve a sense of community within a large school by creating small communities of 100 to 150 students. To create…
Descriptors: High School Students, Intervention, Citizenship Education, Focus Groups
Levine, Peter, Ed.; Youniss, James – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), University of Maryland, 2006
The papers in this collection were written by an interdisciplinary group to address two main questions: What conditions deter young 'involvement in politics and civic life? What reforms could enhance youth engagement? Most of the contributors met face-to-face in Washington, DC in March 2005 to discuss their papers and the general issue of youth…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Adolescents, Politics, Competition