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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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Villanueva, Silvia Toscano – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2013
This paper builds upon the edict for self-determination in El Plan de Santa Barbara: a Chicano plan for higher education (1969), which calls for "strategic use of education," by placing value on needs of the community (La Causa, p. 9). For me, this passage translates into valuing needs of community-college students entering my classes and life. I…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Self Determination, Mexican American Education, Indigenous Knowledge
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Dowd, Alicia C. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2004
This study takes a political-economic perspective to examine predictors of revenue variation in U.S. community colleges using the IPEDS 2000 Finance Survey data. Descriptive analyses of the IPEDS data indicate it is common for colleges at the 90th percentile of a state's revenue distribution to have twice the per student resources as colleges at…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Student Needs, Financial Needs, Community Colleges