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Three-quarters of health seekers do not consistently check the source and date of the health information they find online. In 2001, the Pew Internet & American Life Project collaborated with the Medical Library Association[13.numoffset=”13″ Medical Library Association: A User’s Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web. Available at: http://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html] to devise a […]
A survey of internet leaders, activists, and analysts shows that a majority agree with predictions that by 2020 …
Results for this survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Schulman, Ronca, & Bucuvalas, Inc. among a nationwide sample of 2,003 adults, 18 years of age or older, from July 6-19, 2006. For results based on the total sample, one can say with 95% confidence that the error attributable to sampling […]
Reflecting broad changes in their social and economic status, women around the world have been migrating more in recent decades and as a result have constituted an increasing share of migrant populations almost everywhere.
The differences in the basic demographic trends for Hispanic and white students are most evident in primary schools, as are the differences in the distribution of students in existing and new schools. The changes evident in primary schools are particularly important because they portend the future of the nation’s public schools. As today’s primary school […]
Total public school enrollment in the United States reached a peak of 46.1 million in 1971 as the youngest members of the baby boom generation arrived in the nation’s classrooms. Enrollment declined gradually to 39.2 million in fall 1984, then began to grow once again, increasing to 48.2 million—a 23% jump—by fall 2002. The number […]