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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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The Challenges Never Stop! Two Decades of Reaching for the Best in Clinical Practice
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Field, Bruce E.; Van Scoy, Irma J. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2014
The University of South Carolina Professional Development School (USC PDS) Network has been engaged in designing and redesigning school-university partnerships for more than 20 years with a focus on ensuring that school-based practice lies at the heart of candidate preparation. In 2012-2013, the USC PDS Network once again reexamined their program…
Descriptors: Professional Development Schools, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education, Preservice Teacher Education
Schools as Clinics: Learning about Practice in Practice
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Hands, Robin; Rong, Yuhang – Peabody Journal of Education, 2014
The Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut is committed to the intentionality of interweaving course work and practice in its 5-year teacher preparation program, the Integrated Bachelor's and Master's program. It offers a wide range of field experiences to teacher candidates. Teacher candidates enter the program at the…
Descriptors: Schools of Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Integrated Curriculum
Future Policy Directions for Congress in Ensuring Equality of Opportunity: Toward Improved Incentives, Targeting, and Enforcement
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DeBray, Elizabeth; Blankenship, Ann Elizabeth – Peabody Journal of Education, 2013
Congress's role in defining and promoting equality of educational opportunity has evolved over the past 55 years since "Brown v. Board of Education." Most recently, all three branches of the federal government have focused more on equality of educational opportunity for "individual" students rather than for protected…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Government Role, Federal Government, Federal State Relationship
The Case for Early, Targeted Interventions to Prevent Academic Failure
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Perez-Johnson, Irma; Maynard, Rebecca – Peabody Journal of Education, 2007
The persistent achievement gaps among children of different race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status in the United States represent an issue that has commanded public, policy, and research attention on and off for about 100 years now, and it is once again in the forefront of policy-making agendas. Debates nevertheless abound on the most promising…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Academic Failure, Disadvantaged Youth
Understanding Student-Weighted Allocation as a Means to Greater School Resource Equity
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Miles, Karen Hawley; Roza, Marguerite – Peabody Journal of Education, 2006
As attention shifts to how districts allocate resources to schools, student weighted allocation has emerged as an alternative to traditional staff-based allocation policies. Student-weighted allocation uses student need, rather than staff placement, as the building block of school budgeting. This article examines how the shift to student-weighted…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Private Schools, Budgeting, Resource Allocation