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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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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction with Increasing Black and Latino Reading Fluency, as Compared to Asian and White Second-Grade Students' Reading Fluency
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Turner, Franklin Dickerson – Journal of Negro Education, 2010
This study examined the effectiveness of Fluency-Oriented Reading Instruction (FORI) on improving reading fluency for an ethnically diverse sample of second-grade students. FORI incorporates the repeated reading of a grade-level text over the course of an academic week. This approach to reading uses scaffolding by expert readers. Results indicate…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, African American Students
Parental Influence, School Readiness and Early Academic Achievement of African American Boys
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Joe, Emanique M.; Davis, James Earl – Journal of Negro Education, 2009
This study examined the relationship between parental influence and the school readiness of African American boys, using data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study: ECLS-K, Parents' influence, via their academic beliefs and behaviors, was associated with the cognitive performance of African American boys during kindergarten. While previous…
Descriptors: African American Students, School Readiness, Mathematics Achievement, Parent Participation
Making African American Culture and History Central to Early Childhood Teaching and Learning
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Boutte, Gloria Swindler; Strickland, Jennifer – Journal of Negro Education, 2008
This article provides a conceptualization for including African and African American history in early childhood classrooms. An example of a kindergarten teacher's efforts to counter negative depictions and frequently omitted information in her classroom is shared. While many early childhood educators avoid discussions of history because the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Curriculum, African American Culture
The Research Program of the Yale Child Study Center School Development Program
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Comer, James P.; Emmons, Christine – Journal of Negro Education, 2006
The Yale Child Study Center School Development Program (SDP) practices an action research approach to look into obstacles to good teaching and learning in schools, and to reduce or eliminate them. A discussion on the SDP explains how the pilot, field-test and dissemination aspects of the work evolved, the intervention methods used and their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Study Centers, Action Research, Pilot Projects