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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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Perryman, Jane; Ball, Stephen; Maguire, Meg; Braun, Annette – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2011
This paper is based on case-study research in four English secondary schools. It explores the pressure placed on English and mathematics departments because of their results being reported in annual performance tables. It examines how English and maths departments enact policies of achievement, the additional power and extra resources the pressure…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries
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Cribb, Alan; Ball, Stephen – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2005
We argue that the privatisation of education needs to be understood through an ethical lens, and suggest a broad framework through which privatisation policies and practices might be ethically audited. These policies and practices it is suggested are creating new ethical spaces and new clusters of goals, obligations and dispositions. Whatever the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Policy, Privatization, Public Schools