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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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Zirkel, Sabrina; Bailey, Fatima; Bathey, Shrimathi; Hawley, Rebecca; Lewis, Unity; Long, Deborah; Pollack, Terry; Roberts, Zachary; Stroud, Regina Stanback; Winful, Audrey – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2011
We report on a field trip we took to a "highly successful" urban middle school and a number of disturbing events that occurred there. Afterwards, we filed formal complaints about the violence, and racial and sexual harassment we observed. These complaints led to both a formal investigation and a series of newspaper articles that resulted in a…
Descriptors: Field Trips, Urban Schools, Middle Class, Sexual Harassment
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Halagao, Patricia Espiritu – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2010
As Filipino Americans continue to struggle academically in our public schools, we must seek alternative frameworks to understand how their historical backgrounds and cultural identities have impacted their educational experience. Filipino Americans have a colonial history that has produced what scholars termed as "colonial mentality", a…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, United States History, Multicultural Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Lim, Jae Hoon – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2008
This article is a cross-case study exploring two young African-American adolescent girls' experiences with school mathematics and the impact of the socio-cultural context upon their motivation and mathematical identity. Based on repeated in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation of their mathematics classroom, the researcher portrays…
Descriptors: Females, Cultural Context, Social Capital, African American Students