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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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Otero, Lydia R.; Cammarota, Julio – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2011
The protest against Arizona House Bill 2281 designed to ban Ethnic Studies from K-12 public schools on 12 May 2010 in Tucson resulted in 15 arrests. Students walked out of their classrooms in large numbers to defend their Mexican American Studies curriculum and program. Based primarily on participant observation of the protest, the authors examine…
Descriptors: Ethnic Studies, Mexican American Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Participant Observation
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Ginwright, Shawn; Cammarota, Julio – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2007
Research on African-American and Latina/o youth has been dominated by studies that focus on "problem" adolescent behavior. Typically, they explain youth crime, delinquency, and violence as individual pathological behavior or cultural adaptations stemming from social disorganization in their communities. This article argues for a more nuanced…
Descriptors: Activism, Urban Areas, African Americans, Hispanic Americans