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8.26.2008
One-in-Five and Growing Fast: A Profile of Hispanic Public School Students
The number of Hispanic students in the nation’s public schools nearly doubled from 1990 to 2006, accounting for 60% of the total growth in public school enrollments over that period. Strong growth in Hispanic enrollment is expected to continue for decades, according to a recently released U.S. Census Bureau population projection. In 2050, there will be more school-age Hispanic children than school-age non-Hispanic white children. This report presents demographic, language, and family background characteristics of the nation’s 10 million Hispanic public school students.
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8.13.2008
Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and Knowledge
More than one in four Hispanic adults in the United States lack a usual health care provider and a similar proportion report obtaining no health care information from medical professionals in the past year. At the same time, more than eight in 10 receive health information from alternative sources, such as television and radio. This includes most of those who get no information from doctors or other medical professionals. The report is based on a nationally representative bilingual survey of 4,013 Hispanic adults. It also examines Hispanics' knowledge of diabetes-a serious chronic disease that is more prevalent among Hispanics than non-Hispanic whites.
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7.24.2008
2008 National Survey of Latinos: Hispanic Voter Attitudes
Hispanic registered voters support Democrat Barack Obama for president over Republican John McCain by 66% to 23%, according to a nationwide survey of 2,015 Latinos conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center, from June 9 through July 13, 2008. In addition to their strong support for Obama, Latino voters have moved sharply into the Democratic camp in the past two years, reversing a pro-GOP tide that had been evident among Latinos earlier in the decade. The report also examines Hispanic registered voter engagement, ratings of national conditions, and top campaign issues.
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6.26.2008
The Role of Schools in the English Language Learner Achievement Gap
Students designated as English language learners (ELL) tend to go to public schools with low standardized test scores. However, these low levels of assessed proficiency are not solely attributable to poor achievement by ELL students. These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance—such as high student-teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students who live in poverty or near poverty. When ELL students are not isolated in these low-achieving schools, their gap in test score results is considerably narrower.
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Demography
The patterns of Hispanic population growth and settlement across the United States.
Economics
The wealth, well-being and wages of Latinos over time and in comparison to others.
Education
The outcomes and the factors that produce them as well as Latino views on education policy issues.
Identity
Attitudes towards a variety of matters shape the ways that Latinos see themselves and their place in U.S. society.
Immigration
The foreign born as a factor in population growth, their origins and characteristics.
Labor
Hispanic's role in the labor force and the impact of business cycles on their employment and wages.
Politics
Levels of participation, views on policy issues and partisan loyalties.
Remittances
The billions of dollars sent home by Latino immigrants, how they are sent and how they are spent.
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