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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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6.4.2008
Latino Labor Report, 2008: Construction Reverses Job Growth for Latinos
The latest economic slowdown has had a disproportionate impact on Latino workers. From an historic low in late 2006, the unemployment rate for Latinos rose sharply in 2007 and currently stands well above the rate for non-Latinos. Immigrant Hispanics, especially Mexican and recent arrivals, have been hurt the most by the slump in the construction industry. Weekly earnings for most groups of Hispanic workers also slipped backward last year. There are no signs Latino immigrants are leaving the U.S. labor market but they now play a smaller role in the growth of the Hispanic workforce than in recent years.
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3.7.2008
The Hispanic Vote in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primaries
This report examines the turnout, demographic characteristics, opinions and voting patterns of the Hispanic electorate in Democratic primaries and caucuses held so far in 2008.
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2.11.2008
U.S. Population Projections: 2005-2050
If current trends continue, immigrants arriving from 2005 to 2050 and their descendants will account for 82% of the population growth in the United States during this period, according to new projections from the Pew Research Center.
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Research Topics
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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