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    Appendix A: Data Source

    The enrollment figures are based on the National Center for Education Statistics Public Elementary/Secondary School Universe Survey files (NCES, 2008a). This is an annual census of the nation’s public schools conducted by the U.S. Department of Education in cooperation with the state education agencies. All public schools (regular, vocational, special education and others) are included […]

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    Everson and the Wall of Separation

    Everson v. Board of Education (1947) Majority: Minority: Black Rutledge Vinson Burton Reed Jackson Murphy Frankfurter Douglas The controversy in Everson involved a New Jersey statute that allowed local school boards to reimburse parents for the cost of busing their children to school. The law allowed these reimbursements for transportation to public and private schools, […]

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    Section 3: Funding Scientific Research

    There is broad agreement among scientists that a lack of funding currently represents the biggest impediment to conducting high-quality scientific research. Nearly half (46%) cite a lack of funding for basic research as a very serious impediment to high-quality research, while another 41% say it is a serious impediment. Scientists who primarily address basic knowledge […]

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    III. Homeownership, 1995 to 2008

    If owning a home is the gateway to the middle class and beyond, then more than two-thirds of American households have crossed that threshold. But who makes it, and who doesn’t, varies widely depending on the race, ethnicity and nativity of the householder. Whites are the most likely to own a home, and Hispanics and […]

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    About the Survey

    ABOUT THE VALUES SURVEY DATA The values project draws on a series of large national surveys conducted since 1987. The project was initiated by the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press in 1987 and continued by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press since 1996. Over this period, 14 […]

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    A Shifting Landscape

    Americans are tapping into a widening network of both online and offline sources. The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project conducts ongoing surveys about the social impact of the internet, including its effect on health and health care. Starting in 2000 with the findings of “The Online Health Care Revolution” and continuing over […]

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    IV. Contact with the Criminal Justice System

    Individuals can interact with the criminal justice system in many ways, and that interaction affects not only them personally but their families as well.[4. numoffset=”4″ The shares of non-citizen Hispanics who interact with the criminal justice system are likely to be low because non-citizen Hispanics who are in the United States without documentation may have […]

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    About the Survey

    Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates among a nationwide sample of 3,013 adults, 18 years of age or older, from March 31 – April 21, 2009 (2260 respondents were interviewed on a landline telephone, and 753 were interviewed on a cell phone, including […]