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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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Adamo, Simonetta M. G.; Serpieri, Serenella Adamo – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2010
Chance, a word used in various languages to refer to "possibility" or "opportunity", is the name that was intentionally chosen for a project which has been running for 11 years in Naples and is aimed at young people aged 15-17 who have dropped out of compulsory schooling. Despite being based on a school structure and located within traditional…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Young Adults, Adolescents, Psychotherapy
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Adamo, Simonetta M. G.; Aiello, Amalia – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2006
The work the authors are going to describe in this paper is an account of the attempt to re-establish an educational relationship with adolescent drop-outs, for whom school often represented a cage from which they either escaped or were expelled. An experimental school scheme named the Chance Project has been operating in Naples for the past three…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Case Studies, Dropout Attitudes, Dropout Characteristics