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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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Bullough, Robert V., Jr. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2008
In the current political context, researchers have, as Ivor Goodson (1992) earlier argued, a special obligation: "to assure that "the teachers' voice" is heard, heard loudly, heard articulately." But not just any "voice" will do--teacher troubles need to be tightly linked to issues, biography to history. On every front, directly and indirectly,…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Teacher Role, Teacher Motivation, Teacher Characteristics
Mayer, Diane E. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2006
Discussions about appropriate methods for education research have escalated in the wake of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 and related changes to federal policies for educational research and its funding. This legislation highlights the importance of "scientifically-based research" and in particular foregrounds the use of randomized…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Educational Research, Federal Legislation, Politics of Education
Capobianco, Brenda M.; Lincoln, Susan; Canuel-Browne, Donna; Trimarchi, Ruth – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2006
The purpose of this article is to examine the teacher research movement from the perspective of three generations of teacher researchers within the context of a unique collaborative science teacher action research group. The question that guided the study was the following: In what ways do three generations of science teachers perceive their…
Descriptors: Action Research, Science Teachers, Teacher Researchers, Secondary School Science