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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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Lopez, Mark Hugo; Elrod, Brent A. – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), University of Maryland, 2006
A previous CIRCLE fact sheet showed that young people who attend or have attended college are generally more civically engaged than those who do not. In the present fact sheet, analysis was limited to college graduates from the graduating class of 2000, highlighting relationships between core civic engagement measures, on the one hand, and…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, College Graduates, Gender Differences, Racial Differences
Lopez, Mark Hugo; Elrod, Brent A. – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), University of Maryland, 2006
Previous research on differences in civic engagement between young people with some college experience and those without suggests that college attendance is positively associated with some measures of civic engagement. This Fact Sheet presents new evidence, but largely supporting the findings of other researchers, on the correlation between a wide…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Citizen Participation, Young Adults, Elections