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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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Vest, Andrea E.; Simpkins, Sandra D. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2013
Little is known about how adolescents' peer relations might alter whether sport participation is associated with alcohol use. Consistent with social learning theory, we found that sport participation was protective against alcohol use if these peers had low alcohol use, but athletes were likely to use alcohol if their sport friends and…
Descriptors: Drinking, Team Sports, Risk, Health Behavior
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Watt, Helen M. G. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2005
This study examined why female adolescents choose to opt out of the math pipeline during high school more often than males, which has implications for their long-term careers. (Contains 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, High School Students, Adolescents, Secondary School Mathematics