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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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Rimashevskaia, N. M.; Breeva, E. B. – Russian Education and Society, 2013
Russia's future is put in jeopardy by a decline in both the size of the population and its health and human capital. There is an urgent need for policies to deal with this problem.
Descriptors: Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Population Growth, Population Trends
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Rimashevskaia, N. M.; Breeva, E. B.; Shabunova, A. A.; Barsukova, R. T. – Russian Education and Society, 2008
Today's children represent tomorrow's backbone of the Russian population, the foundation of Russia's success or failure in the twenty-first century. Nevertheless, owing to a number of factors, the state, society, and even, all too often, parents themselves, do not pay enough attention to children. A number of problems have arisen that are leading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Problems, Qualitative Research, Children
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Breeva, E. B. – Russian Education and Society, 2005
Children's problems are just as acute as before. The percentage of children living in poverty is especially high. Between the ages of seven and fifteen, the percentage of poor children in 2001 was 38.5 percent, whereas among the population at large the figure was 27.6 percent. Moreover, families with a higher number of children are not provided…
Descriptors: Children, Poverty, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Size