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Conclusions Some local governments are taking the lead in bringing the Internet into community life.  More local governments have Web sites than Americans are aware of.  And local officials are embracing email as a tool in their constituent relations, perhaps to a degree that many of their constituents do not fully appreciate.  The scale of […]

The Schooling of Internet-Savvy Students With the exception of two focus groups of students selected to provide insights into the experiences of non- or light-Internet users, we spoke to students with a range of Internet skills and experiences—from novices to frequent users to unabashed experts.  While all the students in our groups use the Internet […]

Prior Research on Student Use of the Internet for School Since the mid-1990s, many education policy makers have promoted widespread access to the Internet in schools. From the launching of the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund in 1996 to the roll out of the E-rate discounts for telecommunications services in 1998 to the passage of the […]

The Digital Disconnect: The widening gap between internet-savvy students and their schools Using the Internet is the norm for today’s youth.  A July 2002 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that three in five children under the age of 18—and more than 78% of children between the ages of 12 and […]

78% of middle and high school students use the Internet But the most Internet-savvy among them complain that their teachers don’t use the Internet in class or create assignments that exploit great Web material Washington (August 14, 2002) – Millions of teenagers increasingly use the Internet for their schoolwork, but they say that educators often […]

Key findings By Steven M. Schneider SUNY Institute of Technology, College of Arts and Sciences Kirsten A. Foot University of Washington, Department of Communication Co-Directors, WebArchivist.org A “Webscape” of examples for this section can be found at: http://september11.archive.org/webscape/sch/  The rapid development of new content and features on the Web affected how many Americans responded to […]

WASHINGTON (July 17, 2002) — Fifty-two million Americans have looked online for information about jobs, and more than 4 million do so on a typical day. Overall, these figures represent a more than 60% jump in the number of online job hunters from March 2000 when we first asked about the subject. We found then […]

About Us This report is built around the phone survey work of the Pew Internet & American Life Project done by our polling partner Princeton Survey Research Associates that focused on Internet users who look for health information online. The main survey for this report involved phone interviews with 500 “health seekers” in the summer […]

Finding and evaluating health information on the Web Editor’s note:  Since this report raises so many questions about how consumers search for health information online, we asked the Medical Library Association to provide not only a guide to finding information but also examples of the best health Web sites their librarians have found.  Included in […]