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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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Changing the Conversation about Productivity: Strategies for Engaging Faculty and Institutional Leaders. A Report by Public Agenda for the Lumina Foundation's Higher Education Productivity Initiative
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Public Agenda, 2010
This report builds on and extends Public Agenda's ongoing research on the attitudes of various stakeholder groups toward higher education reform. It explores the purpose and promise of more effective engagement of those stakeholders who--at first blush, at least--appear to express the deepest resistance to the productivity agenda: faculty. The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Focus Groups, Collective Bargaining, Educational Change
A Mission of the Heart: What Does It Take to Transform a School? Insights Based on Interviews and Focus Groups with Principals and Superintendents from High-Needs Districts, Spring 2008
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Public Agenda, 2008
In summer and fall of 2007, Public Agenda completed five focus groups with principals in high-needs districts and sixteen one-on-one interviews with superintendents and other high-ranking education officials including a state superintendent of education. Interviews followed a systematic interview guide revolving around two broad questions: (1)…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Focus Groups, Leadership Effectiveness, Instructional Leadership