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...According to a poll published this week by the independent, nonprofit Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Americans like the idea of federal money supporting religious charity groups, but they aren't so sure they like the practical aspects of setting the plan in action...
...week before the election, a Pew poll showed that 61 percent of Americans said they had paid little or no attention to the campaign. That same number said they could not recall a single news story about the election. Fifty-five percent said they had not discussed the campaign with anyone. And this is one week before Election Day, in a race too close to call where neither man was an incumbent. That's massive indifference...
...Otis Redding's (Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay RE-VERSED Sittin' at the End of the Pew...
...that may change. Backed by a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, researchers have designed a questionnaire to probe the frequency with which students engage in activities that studies have shown to be important to learning. Last spring 63,000 freshmen and seniors at 276 colleges and universities filled out the first round of the National Survey of Student Engagement, which included questions about how much time they spent preparing for class and how often they worked with a faculty member on research or wrote papers of 20 pages or more. "The more time and energy individuals spend...
...this month colleges and universities got a glimpse of how they stack up against national norms in five areas of engagement. In addition to helping schools scrutinize themselves, the study offers a snapshot of contemporary higher education. "We've got a new camera," says Russ Edgerton, director of the Pew Forum on Undergraduate Learning. "It's not the Hubble, but it reveals a [new] dimension of quality." Among the findings...