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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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Miller, Peter M. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2012
The author uses geospatial analysis to examine the "educational opportunity spaces" of two adjacent urban neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Organizing insights are gathered from Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological perspectives on human development, which posit that students are significantly impacted by multiple environmental…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Academic Achievement, Educational Opportunities, Urban Areas
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Miller, Peter M. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2009
This qualitative study examines the collaboration and leadership practice that influences the education of homeless students in a large Mid-Atlantic city. The perspectives of administrators and staff members from three homeless shelters are analyzed with insights from Spillane's (Distributed leadership, 2006) distributed leadership theory.…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Disadvantaged Youth, Leadership Effectiveness, Leadership