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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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Winsler, Adam; Gupta Karkhanis, Deepti; Kim, Yoon Kyong; Levitt, Jerome – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2013
Although it is well established that Black male students are underrepresented in gifted educational programs in the United States, due to a scarcity of longitudinal prospective research, little is known about the protective factors at the child, family, and school level that increase the probability of Black male students being identified as…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Disproportionate Representation, Academically Gifted
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Schultz, Katherine; Coleman-King, Chonika – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2012
This article documents what happened when a teacher in an urban school shifted classroom practice through changing participation structures to incorporate digital technology and multiple modalities into a fifth grade literacy curriculum. This shift in teacher practice provided opportunities for immigrant students to become more visible in the…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Elementary School Students, Urban Schools, Urban Teaching
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Harris, Alexis R.; Walton, Marsha D. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2009
We studied 364 narratives about personal experiences with conflict written by urban 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. Narratives were examined in terms of children's narrative and perspective-taking skills and the responses to conflict they described. Several features of narrative were reliably coded, including level of violence described in the story,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Personal Narratives, Conflict, Elementary School Students