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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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Ma, Xin; Nelson, Regena F.; Shen, Jianping; Krenn, Huilan Y. – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
Using hierarchical linear modeling, the present study aimed to examine whether targeted intervention strategies implemented individually during a preschool program exhibited any short-term and long-term effects on children's school readiness in kindergarten, utilizing data gathered through the Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Intervention, Educational Strategies
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Hung, David; Lee, Shu-Shing; Wu, Longkai – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
Educational innovations in Singapore have reached fruition. It is now important to consider different innovations and issues that enable innovations to scale and become widespread. This proposition paper outlines two views of scaling and its relation to education systems. We argue that a linear model used in the medical field stresses top-down…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scaling, Academic Standards, Educational Innovation
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Eren, Altay; Coskun, Hamit – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
Using person-centered and variable-centered analyses, this study examined the relationships between undergraduate students' time perspectives and boredom coping strategies. A total of 719 undergraduate students voluntarily participated in the study. Results of the study showed that undergraduate students' time perspectives can be…
Descriptors: Time Perspective, Coping, Student Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
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Wabike, Paul – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
Since independence in 1961, Tanzania's political ideology (known as Ujamaa-familyhood) has gone hand in hand with the country's education philosophy. The most important feature of this combination is that people should be educated to fit in Tanzania's environment and culture. Education should emancipate man from mental slavery…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Philosophy, Social Systems
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Xu, Shuqin; Law, Wing-Wah – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
Many scholarly works have examined school leadership, and many others have studied models for teaching citizenship education. Research combining both school leadership and citizenship education, however, is rare. The leadership of China's school party secretaries (SPSs), who are the equivalent of school principals in the Chinese school system…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Citizenship Education, Principals