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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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Glennon, Catherine; Hinton, Christina; Callahan, Thomas; Fischer, Kurt W. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2013
In the field of medicine, research and practice are joined in teaching hospitals. In these institutions, researchers work alongside doctors to incorporate recent advances in medical research into practice and track results. There is a growing movement in the field of education to create analogous institutions in education called research schools.…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Research and Development Centers, Institutional Characteristics, Laboratory Schools
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della Chiesa, Bruno; Christoph, Vanessa; Hinton, Christina – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2009
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) carried out the "Learning Sciences and Brain Research" project (1999-2007) to investigate how neuroscience research can inform education policy and practice. This transdisciplinary project brought many challenges. Within the…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Brain, Politics of Education, Barriers
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Hinton, Christina; Fischer, Kurt W. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2008
Education lacks a strong infrastructure for connecting research with educational practice and policy. The need for this linkage grows as findings in cognitive science and biology become ever more relevant to education. Teachers often lack the background knowledge needed to interpret scientific results, whereas scientists often lack an…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Cooperation, Educational Practices, Educational Change