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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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Chapman, Thandeka K.; Bhopal, Kalwant K. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2013
Commonsense understandings of school practices have historically painted parents of color as inattentive and non-participatory actors in public school settings. Racist implementations of policy and individual actions, based on teacher ideology and deficit paradigms of race, force parents of color to take an oppositional stance in public school…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Racial Bias, Parenting Styles, Minority Groups
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Chapman, Thandeka K. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2005
Much of the scholarship on urban children and families has focused on ways to increase the involvement of parents of colour in the education of their children. However, these suggestions for increasing parental involvement ignore the long tradition of activism in the courts as families have fought through the legal system for equal educational…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Court Litigation, Activism, Parent Participation