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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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Grineski, Steve – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
It is widely reported that children who are homeless are victimized by overwhelming challenges like poverty and ill-advised policy decisions, such as underfunding the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. This act is the only federal legislation devoted to this marginalized group. Children who are homeless, however, should not be characterized…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Children, Poverty, Interviews
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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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Nix-Hodes, Patricia; Heybach, Laurene M. – Critical Questions in Education, 2014
While the intent of the federal and state homeless education laws is clear, securing the educational rights of students without housing has been a long legal and political struggle in Chicago and Illinois. Education for students experiencing homelessness is a continuation of the civil rights struggle for equality in education and educational…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Equal Education, Civil Rights, Educational Legislation
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Foley, Jean Ann – Critical Questions in Education, 2013
Although education has seen trends of progressive ideologies that promote student and teacher empowerment (Ayers, 2011; Lyons, Catallozzi, & Benson, 1998; Spring, 2008), the dominant educational discourse mirrors a business model of efficiency expressed by the social economist Lester Frank Ward (1872). Evidence of contemporary education…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Scores, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Theoharis, Raschelle; Fitzpatrick, Michael – Critical Questions in Education, 2011
Today's principals are required to put in longer hours, lead larger schools, and supervise more faculty and staff members. Additionally they need to create a positive learning environment for students, a productive work environment for their employees, and contend with a variety of student behaviors at the building level. Aside from the…
Descriptors: Autism, Early Intervention, Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy