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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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Lemley, Christine K. – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
In this article, Christine K. Lemley presents a case study that focuses on the overarching question, "How do teacher candidates reflect on discrimination to promote transformative action?" and examines an assignment, composed of two written papers. At the beginning of the semester, the teacher candidates wrote a paper in which they…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Case Studies, Educational Discrimination
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Cunningham, Denise D. – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
In this article, Denise D. Cunningham presents a project that emerged from informal discussions with early childhood pre-service teachers during their content area methods courses at a large, Midwestern four-year university. Students stated that they needed personal experience with materials and practices that they will be expected to use in…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Teacher Education Programs, Methods Courses
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Cunningham, Keith Alan – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
This critical policy ethnography analyzes the McKinney-Vento Act and how the policy is put into practice at a school district within Central Texas. Data comes from conversations with educators occupying key roles within the McKinney-Vento operational bureaucracy at the school district and the researcher's experience as an educator and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Federal Legislation, School Districts, Educational Policy
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Alter, Mark; Naiditch, Fernando – Critical Questions in Education, 2012
This article identifies some critical areas regarding teacher education that need to be addressed by any institution responsible for educating teachers. The authors outline some of the paradoxical pressures that constitute the context for this crisis in teacher education and specify the kinds of basic questions that need systematic answers in…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators, Schools of Education, Teacher Role
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Howley, Craig B.; Pickett, Diana; Brown, Peter; Kay, Laura – Critical Questions in Education, 2011
In this report, the authors characterize the differences between those interviewed who "loved school" and "those who did not." For this comparison, they created two sets of comparison groups: (1) interviewees divided into upper and lower halves on one item, "I loved school"; and (2) the top and bottom quartiles on the…
Descriptors: Adults, School Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Negative Attitudes