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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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First-Generation Students: What We Ask, What We Know and What It Means: An International Review of the State of Research
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Spiegler, Thomas; Bednarek, Antje – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2013
In the course of educational expansion, student populations have become more diverse. This paper represents an international literature review on the topic of first-generation students (FGS), i.e. students whose parents have not obtained a higher education qualification. On the basis of more than 70 research articles and reports on FGS from…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Higher Education, Nontraditional Education, Foreign Countries
Education and the Politics of Selection: Radical Policies for Those Set to Fail in the Twenty-First Century?
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Demaine, Jack – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2006
This paper is concerned with the longstanding question of policy for those referred to nearly half a century ago by the Crowther Report as the "bottom half"; those mainly working class children who, in a sense, are "selected for failure". The issue of selection is a matter of concern in countries around the world and has been at the centre of…
Descriptors: Politics of Education, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, At Risk Students