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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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Acikalin, Mehmet – Canadian Social Studies, 2014
The Internet has become one of the most common educational tools used by teachers and students in social studies education worldwide. Although there are extensive studies on how the Internet is used by teachers as an instructional tool in social studies classes, less work has been done to explain how students themselves use and interact with…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Internet, Social Studies
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Wright-Maley, Cory – Canadian Social Studies, 2014
A slavery simulation that took place as part of a field trip for students of a Hartford junior high academy led a father to file a human rights suit against the school district, and for one official to comment that simulations of complex and tragic human phenomena have "no place in an educational system." In light of these conclusions,…
Descriptors: Slavery, Simulation, Field Trips, History Instruction
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Ethier, Marc-Andre; Lefrancois, David – Canadian Social Studies, 2012
This article is divided into two sections. The first section reviews the national high school history programs in Quebec from 1905 onward. It focuses on the national and civic identity developed through the programs, as well as on political wrangles over their identity-building goals. Because the Quebec public school system was denominational, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Citizenship Education, Social Justice