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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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Whittaker, Elizabeth; Kowalski, Robin M. – Journal of School Violence, 2015
Recent years have witnessed a surge of research on cyberbullying. In this article, three studies examined prevalence rates of cyberbullying among college-age students, venues through which cyberbullying occurs, with a particular focus on social media, and perceptions of cyberbullying as a function of features of the target (e.g., peer, celebrity,…
Descriptors: Internet, Bullying, Social Networks, Victims
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Pierce, Matthew W.; Runyan, Carol W.; Bangdiwala, Shrikant I. – Journal of School Violence, 2014
To understand the potential public health and social justice implications of criminal background screening on college admissions, we examined postsecondary institutions' reasons for collecting or not collecting applicants' criminal justice information. We invited heads of admissions from 300 randomly sampled postsecondary institutions to…
Descriptors: Crime, College Admission, Decision Making, Public Health
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Curry, Vicky – Journal of School Violence, 2003
On May 21, 1998 Kipland Kinkel entered Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon, gunned down two students and injured scores more, after murdering his parents the night before. There is a dearth of research focused on the effects of such violence in school settings where the perpetrator is a peer of his victims. We do not know if, how, or under…
Descriptors: Proximity, High Schools, Violence, Adolescents