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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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Parsons, Samantha; Hallam, Sue – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
This paper investigates the relationship between stream placement and the academic progress made by children in England in Year 2 of primary school, drawing on data from the longitudinal Millennium Cohort Study (MCS). The MCS is a sample of 19,000 children born across the UK around the turn of the century and their families. Academic progress was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students, Cohort Analysis
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Verachtert, Pieter; De Fraine, Bieke; Onghena, Patrick; Ghesquiere, Pol – Oxford Review of Education, 2010
Several studies have reported significant relationships between children's season of birth and measures of their academic success (i.e., the "season of birth effect"). Whereas most of these studies were cross-sectional, the current study uses growth curve modelling to analyse longitudinal data on 3,187 children in Flemish primary education. The…
Descriptors: Age, Primary Education, Grade Repetition, Mathematics Achievement