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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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Sandholtz, Judith Haymore; Sandholtz, Sarah Haymore – New Educator, 2010
This paper stems from a classroom discussion in which one author, a sixth-grade student in that classroom, contended that boys only read books about boys and proposed that the teacher change the situation by assigning books with both male and female main characters. The boys who responded emphatically denied the girl's claim, and the teacher later…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Student Attitudes, Gender Issues, Gender Differences
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Ramsey, Lara – New Educator, 2007
In Eleanor Duckworth's class "T-440: Teaching and Learning" at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, students sometimes wonder how Duckworth's model of teaching and learning works in elementary classroom settings. In this article the author, a graduate of "T-440" and a 6th grade teacher at the Smith College Laboratory School, chronicles her…
Descriptors: Laboratory Schools, Teaching Methods, Teaching Styles, Curriculum Implementation