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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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Pettit, Gregory S.; Yu, Tianyi; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bates, John E. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2009
In this prospective longitudinal study (N = 585) we examined intergenerational links in level of educational attainment. Of particular interest was whether family background characteristics, parenting in early childhood and early adolescence, and school adjustment and performance in middle childhood accounted for (i.e., mediated) continuity and…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Family Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Child Rearing
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Stearns, Elizabeth; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Nicholson, Melba – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study investigated the effects of the peer social context and child characteristics on the growth of authority-acceptance behavior problems across first, second, and third grades, using data from the normative sample of the Fast Track Project. Three hundred sixty-eight European American and African American boys and girls (51% male; 46%…
Descriptors: African American Students, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Observation
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Dodge, Kenneth A. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
The contentious nature-nurture debate in developmental psychology is poised to reach a rapprochement with contemporary concepts of gene-environment interaction, transaction, and fit. Discoveries over the past decade have revealed how neither genes nor the environment offers a sufficient window into human development. Rather, the most important…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Developmental Psychology, Genetics, Nature Nurture Controversy