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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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From within the Belly of the Beast: Rethinking the Concept of the "Educational Marketplace" in the Popular Discourse of Education Reform
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Ellison, Scott – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2012
The task of this article is to carry out a synthetic analysis of the concept of the "educational marketplace" as it is used in the popular discourse of education reform so as to unpack what has become a commonsensical idea in American politics. It is a conceptual framework that has opened an ever-expanding sovereign space in the American state for…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Probability, Public Policy, Public Education
It's in the Name: A Synthetic Inquiry of the Knowledge Is Power Program [KIPP]
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Ellison, Scott – Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, 2012
The task of this article is to interrogate the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) model to develop a more robust understanding of a prominent trend in the charter school movement and education policy more generally. To accomplish this task, this article details the findings of a synthetic analysis that examines the KIPP model as a Hegelian whole…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Change, Academic Achievement, Educational Trends