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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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The Artistic-Aesthetic and Curriculum
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Greene, Maxine – Curriculum Inquiry, 1977
The part the artistic-aesthetic might play in contemporary curriculum would be providing opportunities for the seizing of a range of meanings by persons open to the world. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art Education, Cultural Enrichment, Curriculum Development
Jeremiad and Curriculum: The Haunting of the Secondary School.
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Greene, Maxine – Curriculum Inquiry, 1985
Discusses the "American jeremiad"--a pervasive ideological theme portraying a national mission and our failures in achieving it--and the influence of this ideology on elementary and secondary education. (MCG)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Back to Basics, Conformity, Conservatism
On the American Dream: Equality, Ambiguity, and the Persistence of Rage.
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Greene, Maxine – Curriculum Inquiry, 1983
A historical overview of American literary and political writings shows the concept of equality of opportunity to have been equivocal, serving the interests of the powerful while placating the powerless, regardless of noble educational objectives. Education can be equitable and equalizing in offering beginnings to diverse individuals only if just…
Descriptors: Democratic Values, Equal Education, School Role, Social Bias