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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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Why Are Migrant Students Better off in Certain Types of Educational Systems or Schools than in Others?
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Dronkers, Jaap; van der Velden, Rolf; Dunne, Allison – European Educational Research Journal, 2012
The main research question of this article is concerned with the combined estimation of the effects of educational systems, school composition, track level, and country of origin on the educational achievement of 15-year-old migrant students. The authors focus specifically on the effects of socioeconomic and ethnic background on achievement scores…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Academic Achievement, Migrants, Educational Methods
Pupil Responses to a Saviour Pedagogy: An Ethnographic Study
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Schwartz, Anneli – European Educational Research Journal, 2012
This article is based on research in an ongoing ethnographic investigation of schooling in a multiethnic, multiracial school on the outskirts of a major Swedish conurbation in an area of multidimensional poverty. First, it analyses the use of an individuating, visible pedagogy, which contains a large number of routines that are designed and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Poverty