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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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Evidence, Rhetoric and Collateral Damage: The Problematic Pursuit of "World Class" Standards
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Alexander, Robin – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2011
Drawing initially on evidence assembled by the Cambridge Primary Review, and acknowledging Maurice Galton's trenchant critiques of recent educational policy, this paper tracks the rise and decline of the flagship standards agenda which was launched by the Blair government in 1997 and came to dominate the work of England's primary schools during…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Political Attitudes, Persuasive Discourse
Still No Pedagogy? Principle, Pragmatism and Compliance in Primary Education
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Alexander, Robin – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2004
This article revisits Brian Simon's 1981 judgement that for deep-seated historical reasons English education lacks a coherent and principled pedagogy. Given that since 1997 the tide of educational centralisation has added teaching methods to those aspects of schooling which the UK government and/or its agencies seek to prescribe, it is appropriate…
Descriptors: Primary Education, Teaching Methods, Educational History, Educational Policy