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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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Spino, Margie A.; Dinnebeil, Laurie A.; McInerney, William F. – Young Exceptional Children, 2013
The purpose of this article is to introduce and describe a model of social power and influence developed by Erchul and Raven (1997). This model describes the decision-making process a consultant would engage in to choose, implement, evaluate as well as the use of strategies that they might use to influence another person to act in a particular…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Social Influences, Power Structure, Early Childhood Education
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McWilliam, R. A. – Young Exceptional Children, 2013
The author begins by stating that Mark Wolery has probably done more than anyone else to remind the field that teaching children is the most important thing practioners do in classrooms and that there is research on what good instruction looks like. However, the author asserts that he has a different take on the new (although it began "a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Early Childhood Education, Learner Engagement, Time Factors (Learning)
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Jordan, Staci; Miller, Gloria L.; Riley, Karen – Young Exceptional Children, 2011
Dialogic Reading (DR) is a highly developed and well-documented shared-reading approach designed specifically to increase adult and child verbal exchanges while promoting language development, early literacy skills, and long-term academic functioning in children with and without language delays. This article provides ideas and concrete strategies…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Young Children, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition