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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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Wilson, Amy Alexandra; Boatright, Michael D. – Research in the Teaching of English, 2011
This case study describes how one eighth-grade student, Jon, asserted Native identities in texts as he attended a middle school in the western United States. Jon--a self-described Native American, Navajo, and Paiute with verified Native ancestry--sought to share what he called his Native culture with others in his school wherein he was the only…
Descriptors: American Indians, Adolescents, Grade 8, Case Studies
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Freedman, Sarah Warshauer; Delp, Verda; Crawford, Suzanne Mills – Research in the Teaching of English, 2005
This teacher-researcher/university-researcher collaboration focuses on teaching and learning in untracked English classes, but has implications for all classrooms where students have different needs. We primarily examine the teacher-researcher's (Delp's) eighth-grade untracked English class but also include data from a group of beginning teachers…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, English Instruction, Heterogeneous Grouping, Cooperative Learning