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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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Selman, Ruth Corey – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2007
In recent years there has been greater emphasis placed on second language acquisition in schools. To be prepared for life in the 21st century, to function within an increasingly interdependent world society, to be free from the petty biases that hinder understanding and from the larger hatreds that lead to confrontation, children will need to…
Descriptors: Second Language Programs, Second Language Learning, Global Approach, Cultural Pluralism
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Selman, Ruth Corey – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2005
As leader of a People-to-People tour to Russia, and one whose family history is linked to the cataclysmic history of 20th-century Russia, Ruth Corey, felt a special responsibility to introduce her traveling companions to Russia, and Russian Montessorians to her cohorts. Her traveling companions were a group of 15 Montessori teachers, committed to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Montessori Schools, School Visitation, Cultural Awareness
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Selman, Ruth Corey – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2005
In June of 1974 the author volunteered to lead a travel group--a mixed-aged group of 21 people--to Communist China. Back in her halcyon college days she stumbled upon a course "Group Dynamics." At the time, she could not know its impact on her in her future role as a leader of travel groups. "Group Dynamics" placed relationships in the context of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Travel, Group Dynamics