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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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Owens, Judith; Drobnich, Darrel; Baylor, Allison; Lewin, Daniel – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2014
In response to the scientific evidence documenting both profound developmental changes in sleep and circadian biology during adolescence and the myriad of negative health, performance, and safety outcomes risks associated with chronic sleep loss, at least 70 public school districts in the United States, representing approximately 1,000 schools,…
Descriptors: School Schedules, School Districts, Educational Change, Sleep
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Zocchi, Meghan; Pollack, Courtney – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2013
In recent years, educational neuroscience has begun to move into the limelight, suggesting an increased importance on the ethical considerations of educational neuroscience work, or "educational neuroethics." In a departure from previous work on educational neuroethics, this article focuses on the ethical considerations that are applicable to…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Ethics, Educational Research, Journal Articles
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Newcombe, Nora S.; Frick, Andrea – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2010
Spatial representation and thinking have evolutionary importance for any mobile organism. In addition, they help reasoning in domains that are not obviously spatial, for example, through the use of graphs and diagrams. This article reviews the literature suggesting that mental spatial transformation abilities, while present in some precursory form…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Spatial Ability, Early Childhood Education