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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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Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk about Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans. Issue No. 2. Working without a Net: How New Teachers from Three Prominent Alternate Route Programs Describe Their First Year on the Job
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Rochkind, Jonathan; Ott, Amber; Immerwahr, John; Doble, John; Johnson, Jean – Public Agenda, 2007
This report raises questions about the support given to new teachers who come to teaching through "alternate routes." It focuses on new teachers in high-needs schools, comparing the perspectives of those from traditional teacher education versus those from three alternate-route programs: Teach for America, Troops to Teachers and The New Teacher…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Work Attitudes, Teaching Experience, Alternative Teacher Certification
The Insiders: How Principals and Superintendents See Public Education Today. Reality Check 2006. Issue No. 4
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Johnson, Jean; Arumi, Ana Maria; Ott, Amber – Public Agenda, 2006
This is the fourth in a series of reports from Reality Check 2006, an ongoing set of tracking surveys on education issues. Reality Check surveys attitudes among public school parents, students, teachers, principals and superintendents on a regular basis. In surveys on education, it is not uncommon for the public, parents and teachers to see…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Superintendents, Public Education, Public Schools