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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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Introduction to the Open File: Education for All--Achievements and Prospects
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Benavot, Aaron – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2008
After briefly describing the emergence and evolution of the global movement toward Education for All (EFA), the Introduction discusses the difficulties of employing target goals to bring about significant policy change and educational transformation. The article then presents a comprehensive overview of the uneven progress towards EFA since 2000,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators, Educational Policy
Actual Instructional Time in African Primary Schools: Factors that Reduce School Quality in Developing Countries
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Benavot, Aaron; Gad, Limor – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2004
Educational theorists and researchers have long considered time a key component of individual learning. Caroll, in his classic model of school-based learning, conceptualized achievement as an outcome of two time variables: first, the amount of time a learner is engaged in learning; and second, an individual's learning rate. Caroll's ideas…
Descriptors: Researchers, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality