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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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Dubin, Boris; Zorkaia, Nataliia – Russian Education and Society, 2010
Russians are less concerned about the poor material conditions of institutions or inadequate textbooks than about the commercialization of education and high tuition. Also of great concern is the gap between educational achievement and employment opportunities, especially for the more highly educated. The perception that a higher education is a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Social Values, Employment Opportunities
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Zorkaia, Nataliia – Russian Education and Society, 2009
The hope that young people would accept and quickly learn Western ideas and democratic principles rather than just economic and technological achievements occupied a key place in the conceptions of the liberal and democratic parties in Russia. The possibilities of the modernization of Russian society and its economy were associated directly with…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Social Change, Foreign Countries, Democratic Values
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Gudkov, Lev; Dubin, Boris; Zorkaia, Nataliia – Russian Education and Society, 2009
Over the span of all of the years that the Levada Center has been in operation, one of the tasks of the research collective has been to analyze the behavior of "advanced" groups whose characteristic way of life, attitudes, and assessments might have the significance, to other strata of the society, of a model, and provide them with an imaginable…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Income, Social Change, Foreign Countries
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Zorkaia, Nataliia – Russian Education and Society, 2009
At the beginning of the 1990s, the potential for change in society, the modernization of society, was associated with the younger generations' entering into a "new life." This article focuses on what the younger generations bring with them to the socialization process, and the characteristics of the socialization of young people in the framework…
Descriptors: Socialization, Urban Culture, Young Adults, Foreign Countries
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Zorkaia, Nataliia; Diuk, Nadia M. – Russian Education and Society, 2005
Numerous surveys by the Russian Center for Public-Opinion Research [VTsIOM] have shown that young people, in contrast to members of the middle and, especially, the older generations, typically have a high degree of satisfaction with their lives: more than three-fifths of young people (66 percent) are satisfied, just over one-quarter (27 percent)…
Descriptors: Interests, Young Adults, Social Status, Academic Achievement
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Zorkaia, Nataliia – Russian Education and Society, 2004
Among the problems that make the everyday life of the family the most difficult, it is those related to people's material condition that have been and still are the most important. The fact that this topic remains solidly in the lead and has its own sequence of events--scarcity, rising prices, low income, and not having enough--is an indication…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Opinion, Quality of Life, Poverty