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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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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
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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
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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
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Yin, Robert K.; Hackett, Edward J.; Chubin, Daryl E. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2008
National Science Foundation's (NSF's) MSP Program seeks foremost "to improve student outcomes in high-quality mathematics and science by all students, at all pre-K-12 levels". The MSP Program, consisting of a portfolio of funded projects, in part positions itself as a research and development (R&D) program. This study has addressed the need to…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Partnerships in Education, Program Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education
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Witte, John F. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2007
This article proposes that states create low-income targeted voucher programs for 3- and/or 4-year-olds. The basis for this proposal is considerable research demonstrating long-term effects for a number of random assignment and quasi-experimental preschool programs. Benefit-costs rates of return for these programs are between $2 and $16 for every…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Low Income, Educational Vouchers, Costs