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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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The Educational Expectations of Italian Children: The Role of Social Interactions with the Children of Immigrants
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Minello, Alessandra – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2014
This paper aims to investigate to what extent the growing presence of children with immigrant background in the Italian school system has an impact on the educational expectations of Italian students in eighth grade. Educational expectations are individuals' plans for their future educational career, adjusted to the subjectively estimated…
Descriptors: Role, Interpersonal Relationship, Academic Aspiration, Foreign Countries
From Mother to Daughter: Changes in Intergenerational Educational and Occupational Mobility in Germany
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Minello, Alessandra; Blossfeld, Hans-Peter – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2014
Recent decades have seen a dramatic expansion in the educational attainment and occupational opportunities of German women. Both the educational and occupational positions of the mothers and those of their daughters are continuously changing across cohorts. Our study aims to detect the probability of daughters to experience maternal-line…
Descriptors: Occupational Mobility, Mothers, Daughters, Foreign Countries