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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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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
The Structure of Power in an Urban School System: A Study of Cincinnati School Politics.
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Spring, Joel – Curriculum Inquiry, 1984
A historical analysis of the ways in which representatives of the business and professional communities were able to control the development of a city school system, based on documentation from the 1920's to the late 1960's in the Cincinnati, Ohio, school system. (Author/DCS)
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Case Studies, Change Strategies, Committees
Publishers, Governments, and Learning Materials: The Canadian Context.
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Lorimer, Rowland – Curriculum Inquiry, 1984
United States-based publishing firms dominate the Canadian learning materials market; their business and editorial practices suppress Canadian viewpoints and undermine Canadian publishers. Provincial and federal measures intended to strengthen domestic publishing have been adequate only in central Canada. As information technology advances,…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Ethnocentrism, Federal Regulation, Foreign Countries