http://pewhispanic.org/ Founded in 2001, the Pew Hispanic Center is a non-partisan research organization supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Its mission is to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle Latinos' growing impact on the entire nation. The Center does not advocate for or take positions on policy issues. It is a project of the Pew Research Center headquartered in Washington, DC. en-us Copyright: (C) Copyright 2005 The Pew Hispanic Center. All rights reserved. info@pewhispanic.org info@pewhispanic.org Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:30:00 EST Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:05:02 EST http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://pewhispanic.org/images/rssfeeds.gif http://pewhispanic.org/ http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=92 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. Publications http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=92 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EST http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=89 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. Publications http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=89 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EST http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=79 Since 1993-94 white students have become less isolated from minority students while, at the same time, black and Hispanic students have become slightly more isolated from white students. These two seemingly contradictory trends stem mainly from the increase of more than 55% in the Hispanic slice of the public school population. Publications http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=79 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:00:00 EST http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=76 The fast-growing number of students designated as English language learners are among the farthest behind in reading and math, according to an analysis that is based on standardized test scores. About 51% of 8th grade ELL students trail whites in reading and math, meaning that the scores for one out of every two will have to improve for the group to achieve parity. In the 4th grade, 35% of ELL students are behind in math and 47% are behind in reading when compared with their white counterparts. Publications http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=76 Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EST http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=73 Internet use is comparatively low among Latinos, though there are considerable differences within this diverse population. Hispanics whose primary language is Spanish and who have lower levels of education are largely disconnected from the internet, but those who are born in the U.S. and are English speakers have rates comparable to non-Hispanic whites. Publications http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=73 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:00:00 EST http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=72 This report examines the intersection of two trends that have transformed the landscape of American public education in recent years: a rapid increase in enrollment and a surge in the opening of new schools. The report describes the racial and ethnic components of enrollment growth at various levels of the K-12 system. It also examines the composition of enrollment in newly-opened schools and older schools still in operation as well as the impact of rapid growth in Hispanic enrollment. Detailed statistics at the state level are also provided. Publications http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=72 Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=54 A report on the characteristics of high schools attended by different racial and ethnic groups finds that Hispanic teens are more likely than blacks and whites to attend the nation’s largest public high schools. Publications http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=54 Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=55 A report on high school enrollment points to the importance of schooling abroad in understanding the dropout problem for immigrant teens, finding that those teens have often fallen behind in their education before reaching the United States. Publications http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=55 Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=56 A report on college enrollment finds that the number of young Hispanics going to college is increasing. Publications http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=56 Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 EST http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=30 This new study from the Pew Hispanic Center that finds that the white/Latino gap in finishing college is larger than the high school completion gap. The study reveals that Latino undergraduates are at a disadvantage in competing for college degrees because of two important factors: many Hispanic undergraduates disproportionately enroll on campuses that have low bachelor’s degree completion rates, and they have different experiences than white students even when they enroll on the same campuses. Publications http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=30 Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:00:00 EST