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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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Colby, Anne; Beaumont, Elizabeth; Ehrlich, Thomas; Corngold, Josh – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2007
This paper, highlights the forthcoming book "Educating for Democracy." The book articulates the conditions under which political teaching and learning in college is and is not legitimate, making the case that education for political development can and should be conducted in a manner that is consistent with the core values of higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Citizenship Education, Teaching Skills, Undergraduate Study
Bacchetti, Ray; Ehrlich, Thomas – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2006
The writers call for foundations and educational institutions to build their programs around the goal of increasing educational capital through more open and accountable forms of education grant-making and educational activity. Recognizing that education needs philanthropic foundations to enliven imagination, spur improvements and test solutions;…
Descriptors: Philanthropic Foundations, Program Effectiveness, Educational Change, Organizational Objectives
Colby, Anne; Ehrlich, Thomas – Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2003
The authors discuss the responsibility of colleges and universities to make moral and civic learning an integral part of the undergraduate experience. Citing Judge Learned Hand's 1944 comment that "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Freedom, Democracy, Integrity