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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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School and Child Level Predictors of Academic Success for African American Children in Third Grade: Implications for No Child Left behind
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Graves, Scott – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine correlates of being at expected grade level in reading in the third grade. Participants for this study were a nationally representative sample of African American children from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS-K). Multilevel modeling was conducted to determine significant predictors of academic…
Descriptors: African American Students, Elementary School Students, Federal Legislation, African American Achievement
Character or Caricature: Representations of Blackness in Dominican Social Science Textbooks
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Wigginton, Sheridan – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2005
This article sets out to examine the question: how do social science textbooks used in the Dominican public schools portray national identity and ethnicity to its students? This article examines how the popular contemporary Dominican perspective on "blackness" plays a fundamental role in the current Dominican social science public school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Textbooks, Latin Americans