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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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Collaborative Evolution: The Context Surrounding the Formation and the Effectiveness of a School Partnership in a Divided Community in Northern Ireland
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Duffy, Gavin; Gallagher, Tony – Research Papers in Education, 2015
This paper examines an initiative promoting collaboration between schools located in a city setting in Northern Ireland, which is broadly divided along ethnic and political lines. The schools involved, like the vast majority of schools in Northern Ireland, educate Protestant and Catholic children separately. This presents particular challenges for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Cooperative Programs, Urban Schools
Systemic Factors in School Improvement
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Byrne, Grainne; Gallagher, Tony – Research Papers in Education, 2004
Many official strategies for school improvement appear to be based on an assumption that schools operate as autonomous units, hence the privileging of school-based characteristics that are taken to provide indicators of effectiveness. However, if the systemic relationships between schools are recognized then it may be that the establishment of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Economically Disadvantaged, Urban Areas, Educational Change
Science Education Policy: A Survey of the Participation of Sixth-Form Pupils in Science and Other Subjects over a 10-year Period, 1985-1995.
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Gallagher, Tony; McEwen, Alex; Knipe, Damien – Research Papers in Education: Policy and Practice, 1997
Surveys of and interviews with year-12 students in Northern Ireland over 10 years examined the impact of government science education policy by noting student participation in advanced science courses. Overall, the number of boys taking advanced courses decreased and the number of girls increased. Students retained certain stereotyped views of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Advanced Courses, Educational Policy, Equal Education