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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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Social Integration between African American and European American Children in Majority Black, Majority White, and Multicultural Elementary Classrooms
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Rodkin, Philip C.; Wilson, Travis; Ahn, Hai-Jeong – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2007
In this article, the authors use social network analysis and multilevel modeling to examine a central feature of classroom social organization: the ethnic composition of the classroom. They examine classroom ethnic composition as it relates to patterns of social integration between African American and European American children. They asked…
Descriptors: African American Students, Social Integration, Network Analysis, Mathematics Achievement
Heterogeneity in the Relationship between Popularity and Aggression: Individual, Group, and Classroom Influences
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Estell, David B.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Pearl, Ruth; Van Acker, Richard; Rodkin, Philip C. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2003
This chapter focuses on the relationship between popularity and aggression. Subgroups of prosocial-popular, aggressive-popular, and aggressive-unpopular boys from a sample of 286 boys from urban and suburban areas of a major midwestern city are examined in terms of their behavioral and social-ecological correlates. The measures of social…
Descriptors: Peer Acceptance, Correlation, Aggression, Males
Enemies in the Gendered Societies of Middle Childhood: Prevalence, Stability, Associations with Social Status, and Aggression
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Rodkin, Philip C.; Pearl, Ruth; Farmer, Thomas W.; Van Acker, Richard – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2003
This analysis of third and fourth graders suggests that enemy relationships are common, often of short duration, and partially reflective of negative behavior patterns between boys and girls in elementary school. (Contains 4 tables.)
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 3, Social Status, Behavior Patterns