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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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New Labour and Educational Disadvantage: The Limits of Area-Based Initiatives
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Power, Sally; Rees, Gareth; Taylor, Chris – London Review of Education, 2005
Since coming to power in 1997, New Labour has adopted area-based initiatives (ABIs) as a key strategy to combat economic, social and (especially) educational disadvantage. This paper briefly outlines the history of ABIs within the UK and explores the discontinuities and continuities between recent initiatives and their earlier counterparts. It…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Politics of Education, Social Isolation, Governance
Survival of the Weakest: The Differential Improvement of Schools Causing Concern in England
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Matthews, Peter; Sammons, Pam – London Review of Education, 2005
Inspection and performance data show that the schools identified as least effective in England (in special measures) are more likely to sustain the improvement they make after inspection than those that are relatively more effective, although still causing concern (identified as having serious weaknesses). We compare the progress of these two…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Comparative Analysis