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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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Vincent, Carol; Rollock, Nicola; Ball, Stephen; Gillborn, David – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2012
This paper reports on data drawn from a study exploring the educational strategies of 62 Black Caribbean heritage middle-class parents. In this paper, we consider the respective roles of race and class in the shaping of parents' educational strategies, deploying an analysis that focuses on their intersection and seeks to hold both race and class…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Strategies, Parent School Relationship, Middle Class
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Maguire, Meg; Ball, Stephen; Braun, Annette – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2010
This paper draws on an ESRC-funded study of policy enactments in English secondary schools (RES-062-23-1484) based on case-study work in four similar "ordinary" schools. The study has two main objectives; to develop a theory of policy enactment and to explore empirically the differences in the enactment of policy in similar contexts. Taking these…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Teacher Attitudes, Discipline Policy, Secondary Schools