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    The Future of Higher Education

    Experts expect more-efficient collaborative environments and new grading schemes; they worry about massive online courses, the shift away from on-campus life

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    V. Mexico, by the Numbers

    During the decades-long emigration wave of Mexicans to the United States, Mexico has experienced a wide array of economic, demographic and social changes, some of which undoubtedly have had an impact on Mexican migration trends. This section offers a brief overview of the major changes. Mexico today is the world’s 11th-largest country by population with […]

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    Main findings

    Search engine use over time A February 2012 Pew Internet survey finds that 91% of online adults use search engines to find information on the web, up from 84% in June 2004, the last time we did an extended battery of survey questions about people’s search engine use. On any given day online, 59% of […]

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    Part 3: Americans and their e-readers and tablets

    Overview Ownership of both e-book readers and tablet computers has been growing slowly but steadily for the past few years. But during the most recent holiday season, we saw a major spike in ownership.[12. numoffset=”12″ Lee Rainie, “Tablet and E-book reader Ownership Nearly Double Over the Holiday Gift-Giving Period” (2011). http://pewresearch.org/pewresearch-org/internet/Reports/2012/E-readers-and-tablets.aspx] In mid-January, we reported […]

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    Despite Santorum Rise, Romney Still Most Visible

    Overview Rick Santorum’s recent electoral wins may have propelled him to the top of the Republican field, but by a better than two-to-one margin, Mitt Romney remains the candidate Americans say they are hearing about most in the news. Half (50%) say they have heard the most about Romney recently, compared with 19% who say […]

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    Appendix E: External Advisers and Prison Chaplain Working Group

    EXTERNAL ADVISERS Stacey Bouchet is a co-director of Women In Fatherhood and a senior consultant at the Lewin Group. Her work focuses on children with incarcerated parents, responsible fatherhood and marriage. Anthony Bruno is the chancellor and former president of the American Correctional Chaplains Association and the director of the Religious Services at the Connecticut […]

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    Mormons and Family Life

    Note: For the Center’s most current data on Latter-day Saints (sometimes called Mormons), read our 2026 report “Tradition and Change Among Latter-day Saints in the U.S.” Previous Pew Research Center surveys have found that one common association that the general public has for Mormons is “family” or “family values.” This survey finds that family is, indeed, very […]

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    What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News

    Perhaps no topic in technology attracted more attention in 2011 than the rise of social media and its potential impact on news. “If searching for news was the most important development of the last decade, sharing news may be among the most important of the next,” we wrote in a May 2011 report analyzing online news behavior called Navigating News Online.

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    Labor Force Growth Slows, Hispanic Share Grows

    Hispanics will account for three-quarters of the growth in the nation’s labor force from 2010 to 2020, according to new projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). One major reason is that the Hispanic population is growing rapidly due to births and immigration. At the same time, the aging of the non-Hispanic white population is expected to reduce their numbers in the labor force.