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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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Tinkler, Barri; hannah, c. lynne; Tinkler, Alan; Miller, Elizabeth – Critical Questions in Education, 2015
This interpretive study examines the outcomes of using a social justice service-learning field experience in a social foundations course to help illuminate for teacher candidates the often "invisible" institutionalized inequities of public schools. The findings demonstrate how social justice service-learning can be used as a field…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Service Learning, Field Experience Programs, Social Studies
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Al-Daraweesh, Fuad – Critical Questions in Education, 2013
One of the most discernable qualities of American society is the contradiction it holds between its economic and political systems, namely, capitalism and democracy. Despite scholars' efforts to reconcile both systems, the demands of both systems are incongruous with each other. Capitalism is driven by the logic of inequality, driven as it is…
Descriptors: Foundations of Education, Democracy, Social Systems, Social Bias
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Pearman, Cathy J.; Lefever-Davis, Shirley – Critical Questions in Education, 2012
The self-efficacy of the 12 teacher candidates in this study was negatively impacted by student discipline and classroom management as evidenced by their concern they will not be able to manage a public school classroom. Pre-practicum conversations and planning sessions showed enthusiasm and excitement at the opportunity to teach lessons and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Teaching, Self Efficacy, Student Attrition
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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
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Jones, Steven P.; Sheffield, Eric C. – Critical Questions in Education, 2010
No other educational issue hits a more sensitive nerve with the American public than the role of religion in the public schools. While the intentions and actions of the religious and non-religious parents and community members overlap a great deal as they conceive of the good people they want their children to become, there is no apparent…
Descriptors: Role of Religion, Public Schools, Educational Philosophy, State Church Separation