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    Latinos In Higher Education

    This report shows that by some measures a greater share of Latinos are attending college classes than non-Hispanic whites, and yet they lag every other population group in attaining college degrees, especially bachelor’s degrees. A detailed examination of data for enrollment shows a high propensity among Latino high school graduates to pursue post-secondary studies. However, most are pursuing paths associated with lower chances of attaining a bachelor’s degree. Many are enrolled in community colleges, many also only attend school part-time and others delay or prolong their college education into their mid-20s and beyond. These findings clearly show that large numbers of Latinos finish their secondary schooling and try to extend their education but fail to earn a degree.

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    One Year Later: New Yorkers More Troubled, Washingtonians More On Edge

    Introduction Over the past year, many of the dramatic reactions of the public to the events of Sept. 11 have slowly faded. The spike in trust in government is mostly gone, the public once again is highly critical the of the news media, and even President Bush’s approval ratings have come down from the stratosphere.(1) […]

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    Temporary Turnabout: Religion and the Crisis

    In March, 2001, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life began a partnership to conduct a series of national public opinion surveys on religious attitudes. With the events of September 11, we accelerated our agenda to investigate how religious beliefs shaped public reactions […]

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    One year later: September 11 and the Internet

    This report contains the first scholarly studies built around analysis of hundreds of Web sites that have been cached in the September 11 Web Archives, and makes clear that no event in the Web era has so dominated so many Web sites in such a short, intense period of time.

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    A year later: The Internet and September 11

    More than two-thirds of Americans (69%) say the government should do everything it can to keep information out of terrorists’ hands, even if that means the public will be deprived of information it needs or wants.

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    Online teens say their schools don’t use the Internet well

    78% of middle and high school students use the Internet But the most Internet-savvy among them complain that their teachers don’t use the Internet in class or create assignments that exploit great Web material Washington (August 14, 2002) – Millions of teenagers increasingly use the Internet for their schoolwork, but they say that educators often […]

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    Hunting for a home online

    40 million Americans, one third of all Internet users, have looked online for information about a place to live.

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    Hunting for a Place to Live: A Pew Internet Project Data Memo

    The Growth in Online House Hunting: 40 million wired Americans have used the Internet to search for houses or apartments WASHINGTON (August 5, 2002) — For Americans on the move, the Internet is becoming an increasingly important resource for researching housing options. Fully 40 million Americans, one third of all Internet users, have looked online […]