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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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Assessing the Functioning of Schools as Learning Organizations
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Bowen, Gary L.; Ware, William B.; Rose, Roderick A.; Powers, Joelle D. – Children & Schools, 2007
In the context of current efforts to increase student performance and to close the significant gaps in performance among student subgroups, school researchers and practitioners are paying increasing attention to schools as learning organizations. Unfortunately, the concept of the learning organization is generally vague, and school personnel have…
Descriptors: School Personnel, Middle Schools, Educational Change, Educational Environment
Using Social Environment Assets to Identify Intervention Strategies for Promoting School Success
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Powers, Joelle D.; Bowen, Gary L.; Rose, Roderick A. – Children & Schools, 2005
Evidence-based practice (EBP) requires that school social workers base their interventions on established empirical links between desired results and the determinants of these results. Using survey results from 10,344 middle and high school students who were administered the School Success Profile (SSP), this study examined the relationship…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Student Attitudes, Intervention, Social Work
Welfare Reform, Poverty, and Children's Performance in School: Challenges for the School Community.
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Orthner, Dennis K.; Cook, Patricia G.; Rose, Roderick A.; Randolph, Karen – Children & Schools, 2002
This study examined the relationships among academic achievement, dropout patterns, and welfare reform strategies. Findings suggest that welfare reform has not translated into better educational trajectories for children from poor families. Findings suggest the need for stronger linkages between welfare departments and school systems for adopting…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropouts, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students