Digital media education and online civic and political participation
2010 paper from the MacArthur Foundation’s Youth and Participatory Politics research project on youth media literacy and civic participation.
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2011 Report on the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education
Report produced by Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the progress shown in journalism schools participating in a nationwide reform movement
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Research chat: Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic talks icebergs, Google Scholar and his process
The Atlantic’s Alexis Madrigal reflects on his sequence of Web-based research for an online article, “The Many Failures and Few Successes of Zany Iceberg Towing Schemes.”
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Head Start impact: Department of Health and Human Services report
2010 report by the Department of Health and Human Services on the cognitive development and physical health outcomes of Head Start students.
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Wealth gaps rise to record highs among whites, blacks and Hispanics
2011 report by the Pew Research Center compared data from the Survey of Income Program and Participation (SIPP) in 2005 and 2009.
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Youth exclusion in Syria: Social, economic and institutional dimensions
2007 study by the Dubai School of Government’s Wolfensohn Center for Development on deep jobless problems among young adults in Syria.
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Oil and gas lease utilization: Onshore and offshore
2011 report by the Department of Interior based on data from the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Land Management, and the Bureau of Ocean Energy.
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Political change in the digital age: The fragility and promise of online organizing
2010 paper by the Berkman Center at Harvard University on frameworks for evaluating activism in the Internet age, particularly in repressive environments.
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Estimating the impact of trade and offshoring on American workers
2011 World Bank study on the effects of globalization pressures on wages and employment opportunities for American workers between 1982 and 2002.
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Effect of wolf predation and human activity on caribou and moose in the Alberta oil sands
2011 study in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on threats to the caribou population of Alberta’s oil sands region.
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