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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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Carusi, F. Tony – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
In this article, F. Tony Carusi discusses the relationship between emancipation and oppression as one of the central pre-occupations of educational studies. Questions regarding the status of the oppressed within an oppressive system and their role in maintaining that system, as well as exploring theories and practices of emancipation in light of…
Descriptors: Social Bias, Social Justice, Group Dynamics, Power Structure
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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, 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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Hartlep, Nicholas D.; Ecker, Madonna M.; Miller, Donald D.; Whitmore, Kimberly E. – Critical Questions in Education, 2013
Affirmative action is perceived as a corrective policy intended to promote social equity (Crosby, Iyer, & Sincharoen, 2006; Curry & West, 1996; Kaplin & Lee, 2007; Oppenheimer, 1996). Indeed, affirmative action as a policy has been used to address minority underrepresentation (Ball, 2000), remedying the effects of past/current…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Student Attitudes, Affirmative Action, Equal Education
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Brown, O. Gilbert – Critical Questions in Education, 2011
A gap exists between the degree to which African Americans embrace the cultural value of higher education attainment (Butchart, 1988; Du Bois, 1935; Mickelson & Greene, 2006; Washington, 1900; Woodson, 1919) and the reality of their unsatisfactory undergraduate degree attainment at traditional white institutions (TWIs) (Allen, 1992; Allen,…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Undergraduate Students, African American Students, Graduation