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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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Salomon-Fernandez, Yves – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2014
For southern New England, the middle-skills gap is projected to become acute by 2020, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Historically and currently, the middle-skills labor pool in Massachusetts has been significantly below national rates and has been recently experiencing a decline. Closing the middle-skills gap depends on improving…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Outcomes of Education, Accountability, Economic Factors
Salomon-Fernandez, Yves – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2014
The Massachusetts community college system is entering a second year with funding for each of its 15 schools determined using a new performance-based formula. Under the new model, 50% of each college's allocation is based on performance on metrics related to enrollment and student success, with added incentives for "at-risk"…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Funding Formulas, Performance Based Assessment, Models
Salomon-Fernandez, Yves – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2014
Within the information technology sector, cybersecurity is considered its own supersector. As information becomes increasingly digitized and a growing array of transactions can be completed in the cloud, people, governments and enterprises become increasingly more vulnerable. The Identity Theft Resources Center (ITRC) reports nearly 5,000 breaches…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Information Security, Community Colleges, Universities