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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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Gorski, Paul – Multicultural Perspectives, 2008
One of the relative failures of much of the multicultural education literature is the failure to connect educational inequities with larger sociopolitical conditions. Too often everyone falls into the trap of discussing educational sexism, for instance, as if it is disconnected from global abuses of women's rights. Perhaps nowhere is this…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Privatization, Poverty, Federal Legislation
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Gorski, Paul – Multicultural Perspectives, 2007
Multicultural educators have long fought for diversity in the curriculum, equitable representation in text books, and the inclusion of student voices in the learning process. These are important fights, but they are doomed to result only in tokenism if multicultural educators do not incorporate the skills of critical thinking into the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, News Media, World Affairs, Current Events
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Gorski, Paul – Multicultural Perspectives, 2006
For the past 6 years the author has written a book and dozens of essays in an attempt to explore the worth of the Internet for multicultural education. He has thought deeply about multicultural curriculum and the Internet, online opportunities that support critical pedagogy, and ways educators can connect with each other using a variety of…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Strategies, Web Sites, Critical Theory
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Gorski, Paul – Multicultural Perspectives, 2005
This article presents 25 Web sites that contain information from curriculum reform within an individual classroom to policy reform on a nation scale. Among others, the University of Washington developed the Web site for the Center for Multicultural Education to coordinate activities and programs related to multicultural education scholarship. The…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Multicultural Education, Equal Education, Educational Change