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    Parent and Teen Internet Use

    Parents view the internet less favorably than in 2004, yet are still engaged with their children’s media consumption. Teens are more likely than their parents to say tech devices are helpful.

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    III. Hispanic Population, Voting and Registration Trends

    This section of the report presents a national and state level analysis designed to assess the possible importance of Hispanics in the 2008 presidential election. Toward that end, it provides the most recent available estimates of the size and composition of the Hispanic population eligible to vote. It also provides hypothetical projections of Hispanic registration […]

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    O.J. Leads the Way in a Week of Déjà Vu News

    The arrest of O.J. Simpson not only conjured up memories of the famous murder trial of a dozen years ago, it also recalled the media feeding frenzy that surrounded that trial. And as was the case back in 1995, the story last week was a made-for-TV drama.

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    IV. The Isolation of Hispanic, Black and Asian Public School Students

    In 2005-06, Hispanic and black public school students were very similar in the extent of their exposure to white students. In addition, a high proportion of Hispanic and black students attended a school that had not only relatively few white students but relatively few students of any racial or ethnic identity other than their own. […]

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    Widespread Interest in Rising Oil Prices

    Summary of Findings While the press focused heavily on the political turmoil in Pakistan last week, the public was interested in other things. The three news stories the public followed most closely last week, rising oil prices, the Iraq war and the recall of Chinese-made toys, received relatively little press coverage. The public’s top story […]

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    III. National ELL Achievement Gaps

    Measuring the Gap The NAEP, or the “Nation’s Report Card,” is the best-known assessment of student learning for the U.S. as a whole. NAEP assesses student learning in mathematics and reading at grades 4 and 8, providing national level results as well as results for some states. For the nation as a whole, NAEP reveals […]

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    VI. Changes in Racial Ethnic Isolation in States

    At the national level there have been significant shifts in the exposure of students to students of any racial or ethnic identity other than their own. These national changes have occurred in many states as well. This last section summarizes the changes that have occurred at the state level with regard to attendance at nearly […]

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    II. The Changing Racial and Ethnic Isolation of Public School Students

    The recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 and Meredith v. Jefferson County (Ky.) Board of Education have focused renewed attention on the racial and ethnic composition of the nation’s public schools. The past 15 years have been a period of considerable change in both […]

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    Section 3: Opinions about Pope Benedict XVI

    Roughly three-quarters (73%) of Americans who are familiar with Pope Benedict XVI have a favorable opinion of him. Catholics, not surprisingly, view the pope most favorably (86%). But large majorities of other religious groups, including more than seven-in-ten white evangelical Protestants (72%), mainline Protestants (75%) and black Protestants (70%), also are favorably inclined towards Pope […]