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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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Empty Calories: Commercializing Activities in America's Schools. The Eighth-Annual Report on Schoolhouse Commercialism Trends: 2004-2005
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Molnar, Alex; Garcia, David R. – Commercialism in Education Research Unit, 2005
This year's Schoolhouse Commercialism Trends report finds that schools continue to be a prime target of a wide variety of corporate advertising efforts and criticism of marketing to children in schools is mounting. Most of this criticism is directed at marketing activities that are thought to have a negative impact on children's health. Public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Role of Education, Purchasing, Critical Thinking
Empty Calories: Commercializing Activities in America's Schools. Executive Summary
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Molnar, Alex; Garcia, David R. – Commercialism in Education Research Unit, 2005
This year's Schoolhouse Commercialism Trends report finds that schools continue to be a prime target of a wide variety of corporate advertising efforts and criticism of marketing to children in schools is mounting. Most of this criticism is directed at marketing activities that are thought to have a negative impact on children's health. Public…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Consumer Economics, Marketing, Contracts