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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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Teaching Literacy through Social Studies under No Child Left Behind
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Pace, Judy – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2012
High stakes accountability has intensified the marginalization of social studies in public schools. A popular response to the dilemma between raising achievement in English Language Arts and preserving social studies is to integrate the two subjects. This qualitative case study analyzes instruction in a fifth grade urban classroom where the…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Literacy, Reading Instruction, History
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