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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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Retaining Teacher Talent: The View from Generation Y
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Coggshall, Jane G.; Ott, Amber; Behrstock, Ellen; Lasagna, Molly – Public Agenda, 2010
Members of Generation Y (those born between 1977 and 1995) have been characterized as creative, innovative, self-confident, highly educated, and educationally minded. They like to share what they've learned in small groups and are dissatisfied with workplaces that are technologically inferior. They have a strong moral drive to make a difference in…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Participant Characteristics, Creativity, Innovation
Retaining Teacher Talent: Convergence and Contradictions in Teachers' Perceptions of Policy Reform Ideas. A Retaining Teacher Talent Report from Learning Point Associates and Public Agenda
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Coggshall, Jane G.; Ott, Amber – Public Agenda, 2010
As a new decade dawns, teachers stand at the center of a policy vortex. They serve as the primary focus of one of the Obama administration's four pillars of educational reform--effective teachers and leaders. Educational reformers of all stripes have focused tremendous energy on thinking of ways to identify effective teachers and in turn recruit,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Success, Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Policy