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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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Getting Hold of District Finances: A Make-or-Break Issue for Mayoral Involvement in Education
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Hill, Paul T. – Harvard Educational Review, 2006
In this essay, the author calls attention to a little-studied but critical aspect of school system reform: the nontransparent and sometimes illogical ways school districts allocate funds and personnel, especially teachers. Drawing on a series of studies produced by his Center for Reinventing Public Education, the author asserts that mayors who…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Educational Finance, Educational Change, City Government
Numbers and Narrative: Combining their Strengths in Research Reviews.
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Light, Richard J.; Pillemer, David B. – Harvard Educational Review, 1982
The authors outline three broad strategies for combining different types of information in a review: quantifying descriptive reports, presenting quantitative outcomes narratively, and allying statistical and descriptive evidence while maintaining the integrity of each. They discuss six ways in which qualitative information is essential to the…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Research Methodology, Research Reports, Synthesis