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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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Banks, Joanne; Byrne, Delma; McCoy, Selina; Smyth, Emer – Irish Educational Studies, 2014
Across many countries, young people are differentiated into academic and vocational tracks, a pattern that is closely related to their social class background. The Irish secondary system has been largely undifferentiated, but the introduction of a pre-vocational programme, the Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA), has brought an element of tracking…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Track System (Education), Social Class, Qualitative Research
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McCoy, Selina; Banks, Joanne; Shevlin, Michael – Irish Educational Studies, 2012
Despite dramatic changes in Irish special education policy during the last decade, there is little understanding of the factors influencing how special educational needs (SEN) are identified and whether identification varies across different school contexts. International research has tended to focus on how individual child characteristics…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Educational Needs, Disadvantaged Schools, Teacher Characteristics