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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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Still I Rise: Youth Caught between the Worlds of Schools and Prisons
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Hatt, Beth – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2011
The US has one of the most inequitably funded school systems and the largest prison population in the industrialized world. These two factors help to construct what is known as the school to prison pipeline. The past 30 years has included punitive policies within schools and the criminal justice system that have resulted in a disproportionate…
Descriptors: Correctional Institutions, Justice, Correctional Rehabilitation, Educational Opportunities
Street Smarts vs. Book Smarts: The Figured World of Smartness in the Lives of Marginalized, Urban Youth
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Hatt, Beth – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2007
How smartness is defined within schools contributes to low academic achievement by poor and racial/ethnic minority students. Using Holland et al.'s (1998) [Holland, D., Lachicotte, W., Skinner, D., & Cain, C. (Eds.) (1998). "Identity and agency in cultural worlds." Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.] concept of "figured worlds," this paper…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Urban Youth, Minority Groups, Multiple Intelligences