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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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Lee, Julia Ai Cheng; Al Otaiba, Stephanie – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2015
Socioeconomic status and gender are important demographic variables that strongly relate to academic achievement. This study examined the early literacy skills differences between 4 sociodemographic groups, namely, boys ineligible for free or reduced-price lunch (FRL), girls ineligible for FRL, boys eligible for FRL, and girls eligible for FRL.…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Gender Differences, Emergent Literacy, Lunch Programs
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Verhagen, Wim G. M.; Aarnoutse, Cor A. J.; van Leeuwe, Jan F. J. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2009
Effects of phonemic awareness and naming speed on the speed and accuracy of Dutch children's word recognition were investigated in a longitudinal study. Both the speed and accuracy of word recognition at the end of Grade 2 were predicted by naming speed from both kindergarten and Grade 1, after control for autoregressive relations, kindergarten…
Descriptors: Phonemics, Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition, Kindergarten
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Sung, Youngji Y.; Chang, Mido – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2008
This paper examines the long-term effect of enrollment in center- or school-based care programs on the academic performance of language minority students in the USA. The study applies a longitudinal multilevel analysis to a nationally representative database, the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K). Of particular interest are the…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, Academic Achievement, Kindergarten, Minority Groups
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Kaufmann, Liane; Delazer, Margarete; Pohl, Renate; Semenza, Carlo; Dowker, Ann – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2005
The present study compared the relative effects of 2 educational programs on kindergarten children. The experimental group took part in a numeracy-specific program, which focused on conceptual knowledge. Children were taught basic numerical skills such as understanding and handling numbers and their relations as well as counting principles. The…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Arithmetic, Kindergarten, Computation