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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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Link or Breach? The Role of Trust in Developing Social Capital within a Family Literacy Project
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Cross, Beth – Policy Futures in Education, 2010
This article examines survey and focus group transcripts of a well-established early years literacy project in Scotland in light of contextual information about changing local authority policy in order to look at the gains in social capital identified by participants and the extent to which these indicate lasting durable change that will reap…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Family Literacy, Family Programs
The European Commission Stepping Up Both the Efficiency and Equity of Education and Training Systems
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Baye, Ariane; Demeuse, Marc – Policy Futures in Education, 2008
This article analyses the Communication of the European Commission (EC) devoted to efficiency and equity of European education systems. It shows the Commission's difficulties in integrating the multiple dimensions of education equity and the confusion between pedagogical and economical notions of efficiency. The authors also analyse the means…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Equal Education
Multiple Effects of Education in Rural Areas: Action Research for Development Strategies in Croatia
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Persuric, Anita Silvana Ilak; Gautier, Patrick – Policy Futures in Education, 2005
The strategy of development in rural areas of Croatia includes several factors. Among them is education. The education system in Croatia has a number of institutional, infrastructural and regional characteristics that are a frame of research for this article. Rural areas confront additional factors such as population migrations, poor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Education, Disadvantaged Environment, Access to Education