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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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Crozier, Gill; Reay, Diane; James, David – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2011
The white middle-class parents who chose to send their children to urban comprehensives largely rejected engaging in the usual competitiveness for educational success. Nevertheless the parents in our study still found themselves wittingly or otherwise captured by that same discourse. Their children are high achievers and are regarded as a valuable…
Descriptors: Middle Class, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Working Class
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Clayton, John; Crozier, Gill; Reay, Diane – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2009
With reference to an ESRC/TLRP project conducted across two academic years with working-class students in higher education (HE), this paper explores the relationship between geographies of home and those of university at two UK HE institutions. It addresses how social relations inflected by class influence the experience of students as they adapt…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Working Class, Familiarity, Geographic Location