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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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Bauerlein, Mark – Academic Questions, 2012
There are so many generous and high-sounding phrases and ambitions in "A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy's Future," the report by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), that to criticize them almost seems bilious and misanthropic. "A Crucible Moment," too, grounds its recommendations in measures of civic…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Educational Policy, Politics of Education, Educational Principles
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Bauerlein, Mark; Munson, Lynne; Prehoda, Lauren; Stotsky, Sandra; Greene, Jay P.; O'Connor, Erin – Academic Questions, 2008
Americans are reading less; comprehension is eroding. And where reading intersects with academic achievement and participation in civic matters and cultural activities, the results are dire. Thus concludes the new National Endowment for the Arts study, "To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence". A divergent group of experts…
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits, Reading Motivation
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Bauerlein, Mark – Academic Questions, 2004
Diversity researchers are in demand, Mark Bauerlein explains, because administrators at schools like U-Michigan need all the bogus support they can fabricate. The researchers ask students how they feel about minorities and somehow conjure their answers into a measurement of cognitive development. Those data are gathered and further processed into…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Student Diversity, Affirmative Action, Researchers