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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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Rochkind, Jonathan; Ott, Amber; Immerwahr, John; Doble, John; Johnson, Jean – Public Agenda, 2008
This "Lessons Learned" report finds two specific areas in which teacher training may be lacking: preparedness for the diversity of the contemporary American classroom and teaching students with special needs. Seventy-six percent of new teachers said teaching an ethnically diverse student body was covered in their training, but only 39 percent said…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Special Needs Students, Public Education, Teaching Conditions
Immerwahr, John – Public Agenda, 2004
To examine some of the impacts of changes on public attitudes, this document highlights a small-scale survey that included 16 substantive questions. It was conducted in October 2003 and included 801 adult respondents. Several respondents were called back for more in-depth discussions of the views they had expressed in the surveys. Public opinion…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Educational Trends