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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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Tipping the Scales: National Trends of Declining Social Studies Instructional Time in Elementary Schools
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Heafner, Tina L.; Fitchett, Paul G. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2012
By means of data from the most comprehensive source of teacher data in the nation, Schools and Public School Teacher Staffing Survey (SASS), we designed a follow-up quantitative study to test the effects of two decades of national policy mandates on instructional time allotments for core academic subjects. We used data from the SASS data from…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Evidence, Testing, Elementary Schools
A Profile of Twenty-First Century Secondary Social Studies Teachers
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Fitchett, Paul G. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine secondary social studies teachers' professional characteristics and workplace perceptions in order to better understand who represents social education in the twenty-first century. Utilizing data from the National Center for Educational Statistics Schools and Staffing Survey, parametric and non-parametric…
Descriptors: Credentials, Educational Environment, Teacher Characteristics, Secondary School Teachers