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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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Friend, Nina – Schools: Studies in Education, 2012
At the end of the 2011-12 version of the project course Schools Across Borders, Schools Across Time (SABSAT), a high school senior wrote a series of letters reflecting on the experience of participating in an unusual course with an unusual outcome. In the letters, the student wanted to evoke what was personal and what was critical--to herself, her…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, High Schools, Workshops, Progressive Education
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Cohen, Jonathan; Hamilton, Rhia Olivia – Schools: Studies in Education, 2009
Understanding people and school communities is complex. Facilitating helpful and meaningful change--at an individual or school-wide level--is challenging. As a clinician-educator and a socially and emotionally informed educator, we describe what we do and do not understand about School ABC. We suggest that at the school and individual levels,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Principals, Educational Change, Educational Environment
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Bachta, Linda; Schwartz, Dan – Schools: Studies in Education, 2007
The authors work in a seventh and eighth grade middle school in a suburb of Chicago. At their school, they have built a community of learners in which they share a deep commitment to a progressive, child-centered approach to education. As stated in their district's philosophy document, they believe that "a school must be a place where cooperation,…
Descriptors: Grief, Self Esteem, Suicide, Principals