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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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Simpson, Jennifer S. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2010
In the classroom, issues including 9/11 and the occupation of Iraq often bring affective and cognitive investments among students and teachers to the forefront. Dialogue, conflicting viewpoints, and critical questioning, all central components of healthy democracies, become fraught with allegiances to long-held and frequently unseen norms. This…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Democracy, Classroom Communication, Social Attitudes
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Simpson, Jennifer S. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2006
The prevalence of institutional racism in the United States presents an urgent and complicated challenge. Little agreement exists among scholars regarding the existence and implications of racism, or the position educators might take in addressing it. In the context of public and scholarly retreats from the significance of and responsibility for…
Descriptors: Social Life, Racial Bias, Higher Education, Race