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    Watching, Reading and Listening to the News

    Six years ago, about as many people said they regularly watched one of the nightly network news broadcasts as said they regularly watched a cable news channel. But in subsequent news consumption surveys, cable news has steadily increased its advantage over the nightly network news. In the current survey, 39% of the public reports watching […]

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    Declining Majority of Americans Favor Embryonic Stem Cell Research

    While a majority of the American public still favors embryonic stem cell research, surveys by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press show that the size of this majority has declined somewhat in recent years. Indeed, after showing consistent increases in the early […]

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    III. The Mathematics Pass Rate of English Language Learners

    In the wake of the NCLB legislation, several recent analyses have examined the measured school achievement of English language learners (ELLs) at both the national and state level (Batalova, Fix and Murray, 2007; Fry, 2007). In both reading and mathematics, a majority of ELL students who took assessment tests scored below proficiency standards. Furthermore, ELL […]

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    III. 2008 Candidate Preference and Demographics

    Support for Obama is strong across all demographic groups of Hispanic registered voters, with few significant differences by gender, age, education, income or immigrant status. Religion is the only major demographic category in which there are significantly different levels of support among Hispanics. Among Latino registered voters who identify with a religion, McCain’s support is […]

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    V. The Consequences of ELL School Concentration for Math Achievement

    The concentration of ELL students in schools that report ELL test scores is positively associated with their lagging performance on mathematics achievement tests. Although white test-takers and ELL test-takers are largely not educated in the same public schools, there are public schools that educated both white and ELL students.[8. numoffset=”8″ As mentioned in Footnote 6, […]

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    Section 2: Evaluating the Candidates and Campaigns

    Despite their high levels of interest and engagement, the proportion of voters who express satisfaction with the choice of presidential candidates this year is no greater than it has been in the past two elections. Overall, six-in-ten voters say they are either very satisfied (19%) or fairly satisfied (41%) with the field of likely presidential […]

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    IV. The School Isolation of English Language Learner Test-Takers

    One common explanation for the lagging math achievement of ELL students is that these students tend to have different income, demographic and family characteristics than do other students. This report focuses on another set of differences between ELL students and other students — the differences in the characteristics of the schools they attend. Nationally, ELL […]

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    News Interest and Knowledge

    Most Americans continue to track local and national news most of the time, while most say they follow international news only when important developments occur. A 57% majority follows local community news closely most of the time, whether or not something important is happening. Similarly, 55% follow national news most of the time. By contrast, […]