Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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ERIC - the Education Resources Information Center - is an online digital library of education research and information. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. ERIC provides ready access to education literature to support the use of educational research and information to improve practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
The ERIC mission is to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information that also meets the requirements of the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002.
Articles by Educational Resource Information Center (U.S. Department of Education)
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Improving the School Experience for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students
Interest in meeting the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered youth is growing, largely as a result of...
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K-12 Single-Sex Education: What Does the Research Say?
Interest in single-sex education has been reinvigorated by the educational reform movement and by skepticism about...
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The School-Within-a-School Model
In an age of reform and restructuring, educators are seeking new models to improve their schools. One approach is to...
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Summer Learning Loss: The Problem and Some Solutions
In the early years of formal schooling in America, school calendars were designed to fit the needs of each particular...
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Reducing the Dropout Rate through Career and Vocational Education
The social, economic, and political costs of the dropout problem have been well documented. According to Brown (1985),...
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Promoting the Self-Determination of Students with Severe Disabilities
Promoting the self-determination of students with disabilities has become best practice in special education,...
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Stress and Young Children
Traditionally, stress has been defined in terms of its source (e.g., internal and external) (Marion, 2003). Internal...
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Bullying in Early Adolescence: The Role of the Peer Group
A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association demonstrated the seriousness of bullying in American...
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Student Dress Policies
In recent years, schools across the country have experienced violence, gang activity, and thefts of clothing and...
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How People Learn (and What Technology Might Have to Do With It)
At an educational conference last spring, I attended a session focused on the potential of instructional technology to...
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