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    Podcast Downloading 2008

    As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast.

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    Podcasts Proliferate, But Not Mainstream

    Nearly one in five internet users (19%) has downloaded a podcast to listen to or view later — up from 12% in 2006. But podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet users, as very few download podcasts on a typical day.

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    III. The Anxious Middle

    23% of the Middle Class; 12% of all adults These working and worried Americans are the most middle class of the four middle class groups. Members of this group aren’t the wealthiest or the least affluent of the four groups, nor are they the oldest or the youngest group. In terms of education, too, they […]

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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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    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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    Chapter 4. The Olympics

    Publics around the world show signs of apprehension about China’s growing economic power, its role in foreign affairs and the safety of the products it exports, but the Chinese are confident that the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing will change the way their country is viewed. By nearly unanimous margins, Chinese respondents say their country […]

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    IV. The Struggling Middle

    17% of the Middle Class; 9% of the total population On virtually every key measure of social stature and attainment—income, education, home ownership and even health, members of the Struggling Middle are lagging behind other middle class Americans. Women significantly outnumber men in this group and minorities are disproportionately represented, though whites still constitute the […]

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    Networked Workers

    The majority of employed adults (62%) use the internet or email at their job, and many have cell phones and Blackberries that keep them connected even when they are not at work.