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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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Moon, Tonya R.; Brighton, Catherine M.; Jarvis, Jane M.; Hall, Catherine J. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2007
A driving force in standards-based educational reform was the 1983 release of "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform" (National Commission of Excellence in Education [NCEE], 1983). The report called for "an end to the minimum competency testing movement and the beginning of a high-stakes testing movement that would raise the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes
Brighton, Catherine M.; Moon, Tonya R.; Jarvis, Jane M.; Hockett, Jessica A. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2007
Despite the ongoing, extensive focus on the more equitable representation of gifted students from diverse populations, poor and minority students remain underserved by gifted education proportional to their representation in the broader student population (Donovan & Cross, 2002; U.S. Department of Education, 1993). One possible factor contributing…
Descriptors: Gifted, Talent, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs