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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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Edwards, D. Brent, Jr. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2010
Reviewing the literature on critical pedagogy (CP) and democratic education (DE) reveals that very little has been written comparing the two (Knight and Pearl in Urban Rev 32(2):197-226, 2000). After reading the Urban Review article by Knight and Pearl (2000)--the only publication explicitly comparing the two approaches to education--I was…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Critical Theory, Democracy, Democratic Values
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Villegas, Ana Maria; Irvine, Jacqueline Jordan – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2010
Over the past two decades, the short supply of teachers of color in elementary and secondary public schools has drawn the attention of policymakers and educators alike. To address the widening cultural chasm between teachers and their students, a variety of initiatives that aim to recruit people of color into teaching have been launched. Little…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Teacher Recruitment
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Diggs, Gregory A.; Garrison-Wade, Dorothy F.; Estrada, Diane; Galindo, Rene – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2009
Through a comprehensive literature review, this article identifies and discusses barriers to recruitment and retention of faculty of color. Marginalization, racism and sexism manifested as unintended barriers are presented as a few of the barriers faculty of color face in successfully navigating the tenure process. Informed by this literature…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Minority Groups, Tenure, Experience
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Comeaux, Eddie; Jayakumar, Uma M. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2007
This review offers a critical analysis of John Ogbu's "Black American Students in an Affluent Suburb: A study of academic disengagement." In his study, Ogbu explains the Black-White achievement gap as one born from the cultural attitudes held by Black middle-class students toward academics. Despite Ogbu's intent to further the scholarly discussion…
Descriptors: African American Students, Criticism, Equal Education, Advantaged