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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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Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High.
Beals, Melba Pattillo – American Educator, 1994
Recounts experiences of the author as one of the black students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock (Arkansas) in 1957 and presents a retrospective as she looks back on her story and the civil rights movement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Civil Rights, Classroom Desegregation, Educational History
Muddle by Mandate: A Fictionalized Account.
Tyson-Bernstein, Harriet – American Educator: The Professional Journal of the American Federation of Teachers, 1988
Presents a fictionalized account illustrating the process by which willful states, misguided experts, cunning marketeers, and overworked teachers and administrators produce textbooks that are ill-written, confusing, misleading, and boring. (BJV)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Instructional Effectiveness, Instructional Material Evaluation, Material Development