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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Educating Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Cued Speech is a sound-based hand supplement to speechreading. Eight handshapes representing groups of consonants are...
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Enriching Children's Out-of-School Time
School-age children between the ages of 5 and 14 spend up to 80% of their time out of school. These hours represent an...
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Fostering Second Language Development in Young Children
As the number of linguistically and culturally diverse students entering American schools increases, more and more...
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Helping Your Highly Gifted Child
Most parents greet the discovery that their child is not merely gifted but highly or profoundly gifted with a...
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How Parents Can Support Gifted Children
Raising and nurturing a gifted child can be an exciting yet daunting challenge. Unfortunately, these complicated little...
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Preparation for College Admissions Exams: Comparing the SAT and ACT and What They Measure
The ACT The ACT exam, developed and administered by ACT Inc., consists of four principal test sections: English, Math,...
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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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Media Literacy
Children today are growing up in what O'Sullivan, Dutton and Rayner (1998) call a "media saturated" world, in which mass...
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Child Sexual Abuse: What It Is and How to Prevent It
Sexual abuse of children is a grim fact of life in our society. It is more common than most people realize. Some surveys...
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Children and Grief
The death of a loved one is a part of the life cycle that brings grief to children as well as to adults. According to...
Topics: Grief and Bereavement | Family Pets
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