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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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Field, Sherry L.; Bauml, Michelle; Wilhelm, Ron W.; Jenkins, Joelle – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2012
This qualitative content analysis was conducted to determine how Mexico and Mexican people are portrayed in contemporary U.S. elementary social studies textbooks. Three textbooks from each of three major publishers were analyzed. Findings are presented in five sections: images and photographs, holidays, Mexican people and heroes, contested…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mexicans, Cultural Awareness, Primary Education
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Heafner, Tina L.; Fitchett, Paul G. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 2012
By means of data from the most comprehensive source of teacher data in the nation, Schools and Public School Teacher Staffing Survey (SASS), we designed a follow-up quantitative study to test the effects of two decades of national policy mandates on instructional time allotments for core academic subjects. We used data from the SASS data from…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Evidence, Testing, Elementary Schools