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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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Brown, Keffrelyn D.; Brown, Anthony L. – Educational Foundations, 2012
Drawing from Michel Foucault's notion of "useful" and "dangerous" discourse coupled with the theory of racial knowledge, this article examines how two common counter-discourses about African-American students operate and create racial knowledge in education practice. By "counter-discourse", the authors refer to knowledge, theories, and histories…
Descriptors: African American Students, Race, Teacher Education Programs, Cultural Differences
Reyes, Cynthia C. – Educational Foundations, 2008
In this article, the author examines her racial identity and its impact on her interpretation of the schooling experiences of a 10th grade Latina in an ethnographic case study. Prior to this study, the author had been working in a university-based family literacy program where she met Zulmy's mother, Manuela. Due to her experience as a middle…
Descriptors: Bilingual Teachers, Filipino Americans, Immigrants, Ethnography
Flowers, Lamont A. – Educational Foundations, 2008
Despite the wealth of information generated in recent years regarding the benefits for students who participate in Advanced Placement (AP) programs on educational outcomes, limited research exists contrasting and comparing the differential effects of AP program participation on educational and labor market outcomes by race. However, research…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Advanced Placement Programs, High School Students, Student Participation
Weiss, Jen – Educational Foundations, 2007
This article takes up what people might learn about resistance and surveillance by looking at how students at a Bronx, New York, high school have responded to security initiatives recently imposed on them. It discusses three responses: the protest; tactical avoidance; and what the author calls emergent participation. The author addresses each of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, School Security, Resistance (Psychology)
Werschkul, Misha; Gault, Barbara; Caiazza, Amy; Hartmann, Heidi – American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 2005
This report focuses on educational attainment and earnings among women in Michigan. Michigan ranked 36th in the nation in 2000 for the proportion of its female population with a four-year college degree or more. Women in Michigan have lower levels of education than do men in the state. In 2000, 23.5 percent of men and 20.2 percent of women had…
Descriptors: Family Income, Educational Attainment, Females, Equal Education