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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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Barrs, Myra; Horrocks, Sarah – CfBT Education Trust, 2014
Many schools are launching school blogs as a way of developing their online profiles and involving pupils in digital writing. Blogs are used in many different ways. This research study developed as a result of a small survey carried out in three schools in Lambeth in South London in 2012. The survey was part of a scoping paper carried out for…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Surveys, Computer Mediated Communication
Raymond, Adella – CfBT Education Trust, 2014
This research report notes that despite the focus on girls' education in the Millennium Development Goals, there remains a huge number of girls out of education, a situation which, although improving, is still a significant concern in Tanzania, Africa. Women and girls in pastoral communities are subject to a particularly challenging…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Females, Educational Attitudes
Sammons, Pam; Kington, Alison; Lindorff-Vijayendran, Ariel; Ortega, Lorena – CfBT Education Trust, 2014
This study investigates the notion of "inspiring" teaching. The research was commissioned by CfBT as part of a collaborative professional development initiative involving its schools. It arose from headteachers' suggestions that schools nominate a number of "inspiring" teachers so that their practice could be studied and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Observation, Interviews
Sammons, Pam; Kington, Alison; Lindorff-Vijayendran, Ariel; Ortega, Lorena – CfBT Education Trust, 2014
This research study investigates the notion of "inspiring" teaching through case studies of a purposive sample of 17 primary and secondary school teachers in England. The research was commissioned by CfBT Education Trust as part of a collaborative professional development initiative involving its schools. It arose from headteachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Observation, Interviews
Sammons, Pamela; Davis, Susila; Bakkum, Linda; Hessel, Gianna – CfBT Education Trust, 2014
During 2012/13, academics from the Department of Education, University of Oxford were commissioned by CfBT to conduct an independent evaluation of the CfBT Brunei English teaching programme. This report describes the main findings from a research project that studied the role of CfBT Education Trust in supporting improved English language teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Partnerships in Education