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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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Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2002
The attacks on New York City and Washington on September 11, 2001, as well as the aborted attack that led to the Pennsylvania crash of United Airlines flight 93 comprised an event too traumatic to quickly set aside. All the things that a nation and its people do to digest, understand and in some sense recover from a cataclysm have been and are…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Elementary Secondary Education, Democracy, United States History
Cross, Richard W., Ed.; Rebarber, Theodor, Ed.; Torres, Justin, Ed. – Thomas B Fordham Foundation and Institute, 2004
This project evaluated 30 state accountability systems, including each state's academic standards, assessments (in both reading and math and for elementary, middle, and high school), and the accountability policies that define success and failure and provide both positive and negative incentives for success. The 30 accountability systems evaluated…
Descriptors: State Standards, Academic Standards, Accountability, Educational Policy