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Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

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Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project : Overview Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who (..)

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Learn to Love Your Local Data

Museum 2.0

Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? Not only do they aggregate existing data, they do a bi-annual phone survey to tackle questions like "have you been discriminated against in the last year?" Want to know the demographic spread of your county?

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Research Friday: Out-of-School Time Programs for Latino Youth

ASU Lodestar Center

This immigration paradox has contributed to the teen pregnancy rates among Latinas, which is currently higher than any other major race/ethnic group in the U.S., 3] In part, this is due to fewer Latino families placing their children in early childhood programs compared to their non-Latino counterparts. Balistreri, K. S., & Baker, E.