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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 Social Context of Schooling: What Research and Theory Can Tell Us.
Croninger, Bob – Intercultural Development Research Association Newsletter, 1991
The social context in which instruction takes place dramatically affects individual learning, particularly for female and minority students. Social context refers to the understandings and expectations that teachers and students use to make sense of each other's behavior. It is hypothesized that some students fail because learning, as presented by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cooperative Learning, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education