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    Historic Election Year in Gov Races

    This year’s sweepstakes for 36 governors’ seats is shaping up as one for the history books. Democrats appear poised to reverse 12 years of growing Republican gubernatorial power.

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    Historical Overview of Pentecostalism in Philippines

    Origins and Growth 1920s-1940s: In 1921, missionaries from the pentecostal United Free Gospel Church, headquartered in Pennsylvania, arrive in the Philippines. An American Assemblies of God (AG) missionary arrives in 1926, followed by Filipinos converted in the U.S. The first resident missionary from the Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) establishes the church in the Philippines […]

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    November Turnout May Be High

    Summary of Findings Turnout in the 2006 midterm election may well be higher than normal, given the level of interest expressed by voters. Today, 51% of voters say they have given a lot of thought to this November’s election, up from 45% at this point in 2002 and 42% in early October of 1998. Even […]

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    VIII. The Impact of Hispanics on Schools

    So far this report has focused on the school construction boom and the ways it relates to the growth of the Hispanic population. The following section focuses on the schools most affected by growth in the number of Hispanic students. This analysis examines how many schools, and which ones, experienced the greatest impact and how […]

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    VII. Changes in Racial and Ethnic Composition

    The two simultaneous developments in school enrollment described above—rapid increases in the number of Hispanic students and the decline in the number of white students—potentially constituted a significant shift in the racial and ethnic composition of American public schools. Using various approaches, researchers have come to fundamentally different conclusions about how the population change was […]

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    Historical Overview of Pentecostalism in Chile

    Origins and Growth 1909-1910: American Methodist missionary Willis Hoover encourages his fellow Methodists to seek charismatic gifts. Hoover reports that his congregations in Valparaíso and Santiago soon began to sing, shout and speak in tongues (Cleary and Sepúlveda 1998: 99). Hoover’s fellow pentecostals break away from the American-founded Methodist church in 1910 to form a […]

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    Getting a Grad Degree in Cheating

    Researchers find that about half of all graduate students admit they cheated in the past year, with MBA students the most likely to say they cut ethical corners. Plus, studies of hockey thugs and the declining percentage of alcohol in liquor, beer and wine.

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    Appendix B: Revisions of the CPS

    Each January, the U.S. Census Bureau makes adjustments to the population controls in the Current Population Survey. These adjustments are typically based on revised estimates of net international migration and updated vital statistics. According to a note released by the BLS (“Adjustments to Household Survey Population Estimates in January 2006”), the cumulative effect of the […]