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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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Eppley, Karen; Corbett, Michael – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2012
Why read? We take a turn in the conversation initiated by Jean Stockard's article, "Increasing Reading Skills in Rural Areas: An Analysis of Three School Districts" (2011a), with a dialog in which we engage the epistemological positions at play within this debate. We understand the different positions as representations of each author's ideas…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Literacy, Epistemology, School Districts
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Eppley, Karen – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2011
Jean Stockard's (2011) article in the "Journal of Research in Rural Education," "Increasing Reading Skills in Rural Areas: An Analysis of Three School Districts," offers a productive opportunity to discuss the standardization of language and literacy teaching and learning in rural schools. The purpose of this response is to (re)initiate…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Rural Areas, Reading Skills, Rural Education
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Eppley, Karen – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2009
While there is a growing body of work that considers the implications of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) for rural schools, literature that critically examines the policy itself is lacking in rural educational research. This critical policy analysis focuses on the highly qualified teacher provision of NCLB as it relates to rural schools. The…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Educational Research, Federal Legislation, Criticism