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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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Blasingame, Christina; Brown, Dee; Duemer, Lee S.; Green, Birgit; Richardson, Belinda – American Educational History Journal, 2009
America has an over 200 year tradition of underground publications spanning a wide range of social and political expression. One notable period in this tradition was the era of the 1960s and early 1970s, and students' efforts to express themselves and challenge the status quo. Student attention was drawn to issues such as the Vietnam War, women's…
Descriptors: College Students, Activism, Social Change, Power Structure
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Duemer, Lee S. – American Educational History Journal, 2007
When education is paid for by society it is only logical that it should address social problems. Such an understanding stresses that historical change should be examined in terms of how education responds to the needs of society, and the process involved in that change. It must be cautioned, however, that educational change does not precisely…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Agricultural Education, Conflict, Educational Change
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Duemer, Lee S. – American Educational History Journal, 2007
The integration of America's colleges and universities has often been complicated by institutions that have been committed to integration in words but not in actions. Scholarship is abundant with examples of how institutions have failed at or intentionally evaded the development of racially inclusive environments. One factor in some successful…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, African Americans, Clergy, Role