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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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Politics, Economics, and School Reform.
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Mumper, Michael – Urban Education, 1988
Reviews "The Politics of School Reform 1870-1940" by Paul Peterson, and "Power and the Promise of School Reform: Grassroots Movements During the Progressive Era" by William J. Reese. Notes that these two studies serve to bring politics, and political variables, back into the debate over educational policymaking, but are seriously limited by a…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Educational Change, Educational History, Educational Policy
Lower-Track Classrooms: A Curricular and Cultural Perspective [Book Review].
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Hamovitch, Bram – Urban Education, 1993
This ethnography of eight lower-track classrooms in two schools gives insight into the operation of the tracking system, although it implicitly accepts tracking and does not face the injustice children experience as a result of lower-track placement. Broader structural reasons underlying the tracking system are not examined. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Black Students, Book Reviews