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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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Rambla, Xavier – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2012
This article analyses the "soft power" that the Federal Government of Brazil has gained by designing and implementing a very ambitious Plan for the Development of Education. It draws on fieldwork carried out in the country in 2009 and 2010 in order to conduct a discourse analysis of the strategy deployed by the key political agents. The results…
Descriptors: Governance, Foreign Countries, Discourse Analysis, Educational Change
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Valiente, Oscar; Rambla, Xavier – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2009
This study estimates the trends of school segregation in Catalonia (Spain) between 2001 and 2006. Currently, new immigration has reopened the debate about the "Other Catalans" triggered by concern with the integration of the incoming population. An "intersectional approach" to social divisions suggests that class and ethnic school segregation…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Public Schools, Private Schools, School Segregation