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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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Brown, Christopher P.; Weber, Natalie Babiak; Yoon, Yeojoo – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2015
The field of publicly funded early childhood education continues to evolve into a discipline in which early educators are expected to teach a more culturally and linguistically diverse student population a standardized set of knowledge and skills so that they can meet policymakers' academic achievement requirements. This creates a range of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Accountability, Professional Development, Preschool Teachers
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Brown, Christopher P.; Feger, Beth Smith – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2010
Federal, state, and local policy makers' high-stakes standards-based accountability reforms are transforming the early childhood teacher education process. These reforms affect how early education teacher candidates figure their role as teachers. By employing Holland, Lachicotte, Skinner, and Cain's conception of figured worlds to analyze the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Early Childhood Education, Teacher Educators, Teacher Role