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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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Giroux, Henry A.; Giroux, Susan Searls – Policy Futures in Education, 2009
The Obama presidency has been premised on a commitment to progressive social change in its a repudiation of unfettered free-market capitalism. It also signals the end of an era in which privatization, deregulation, and cut throat competition combined with a massive assault on the social state. While such reforms are welcome, they do not as yet go…
Descriptors: Privatization, Ideology, Social Change, Educational Change
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Giroux, Susan Searls – Policy Futures in Education, 2005
This article explores the new conservative assault on the university and the relative silence on the part of progressives in response to this challenge. In part, this apparent retreat is a consequence of the vulnerabilities and anxieties of workers in the academy that result from the ongoing corporatization of the university as well as the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Political Attitudes, College Faculty, Multicultural Education