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According to a Pew Research Center study released last week, 39.6 percent of all 18- to 24-year-olds—or 11.5 million students—were enrolled in a two- or four-year college last October. The increase derives primarily from dramatic growth in community college enrollment, according to the study...
This increase is likely independent of the results of the Pew study—which surveys 18- to 24-year-olds attending college—as 75 percent of Extension School students already have college degrees, and the average student is 32-years...
JULIAN BOND, chairman of the NAACP, during an Oct. 11 speech in which he urged African Americans to support the right of gays to wed. A recent Pew Research Center poll found that two-thirds of black Protestants oppose same-sex marriage...
...makes it illegal to do things that are not wrong, like go to church," says Glen Gerding, Nichols' attorney. "When does the state stop interfering with a church's business? Will pastors be charged as an accessory for letting a known sex offender sit in a front-row pew and worship...
...Pew Hispanic Center released a study of first-, second- and third-generation Hispanics in the U.S. - a look at how the Latin-American population has grown and assimilated over the past three decades. As recently as 1980, just 9% of U.S. kids under 18 were Hispanic, compared with 22% today. Only about a tenth of that population are first-generation Latin Americans - meaning they were born outside the U.S. More than half (52%) are second generation - born in the U.S. to at least one foreign-born parent; and 37% were born in America to American-born parents...