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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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Avis, James – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2008
The paper considers the broader policy context in which English Post Compulsory Education and Training (PCET) is placed, examining the model of class implicit within policy documents and particular currents within new Labour thinking. It notes that class relations and patterns of inequality have deepened. Class as a structural feature of the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Social Problems, Postsecondary Education, Social Class
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Pastrana, Jill Pinkney – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2007
In the late 1970s following a military coup, Chile, with its population brutally suppressed, became the first testing ground for the changes that now define neo-liberal recommendations by international funding agencies such as the IMF and World Bank. The changes were dramatic and extensive. The population could not negotiate the terms of change.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Educational Change, History