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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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Ball, Stephen; Hoskins, Kate; Maguire, Meg; Braun, Annette – Critical Studies in Education, 2011
Drawing on ESRC-funded research this paper considers some characteristics of the policy process in schools using the construction of behaviour policy in four English secondary schools as a case in point. It argues that behavior policy, like other policies, is enacted in particular and distinct institutional contexts with their own histories; that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Policy, Discipline Policy, Student Behavior
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Pratt-Adams, Simon; Maguire, Meg – Critical Studies in Education, 2009
This paper explores some of the reasons that primary head teachers in urban schools give for staying in a highly complex and demanding professional occupation. The paper is divided into two sections. The first section contains an overview of what is involved in primary headship in the English setting and what is distinctive in the urban setting…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Principals, Elementary Schools, Persistence