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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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Bredo, Eric – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2005
The attempt to reform education using performance-based accountability may eventually be applied to teacher education. If so, it poses a potential challenge to those in social foundations as well as to other teacher-educators. Among other things, it requires that we think clearly about our mission and the kinds of effects we would like to have.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Accountability, Foundations of Education, Performance Based Assessment
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Bredo, Eric – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2005
Normative confusion in education often stimulates 3 responses, appeal to: (a) top-down standards, (b) traditional communal norms, or (c) laissez-faire individualism. Strangely neglected is a collaborative approach, the attempt to consult with others and negotiate in an inclusive, fair, and open manner. Neglect of collaboration is undoubtedly due…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Postmodernism, Social Problems, Philosophy