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Pew Research on Reading: Sooooooo….Guess Who’s, Like, Reading More Books? Hint: It’s Not Baby Boomers Over Age 65

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team May 3, 2014 2

DOES IT SEEM that reading a book is an old-fashioned practice for many young people? One that has given way to alternative, less-wordy pastimes like texting and tweeting? In actuality, young Americans are more likely to read a book than…

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CULTURE VULTURE: Is The Love Affair Between Americans And Their Libraries Ending? Pew Research Study Weighs In

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Mar 23, 2014 0

THE PEW RESEARCH Center released a long anticipated “typology” of Americans and their library use. Calling it “the first of its kind,” Pew officials said the report, drawn from data gathered in a recent survey, “sheds light on broader…

Higher Ed Experts Call President Obama’s ‘College Affordability’ Speech at U of M “political theater of the worst sort”

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jan 30, 2012 1

by P.D. Lesko President Obama came to Ann Arbor to tell the country that federal aid to colleges should be tied to tuition costs. Federal aid to students would remain untouched, and a cranky Congress would have to pass the President's…

Solo Practitioner: Me, Coretta Scott King, J.K. Rowling and Kelis Are Destroying Society.

The Ann Arbor Independent Editorial Team Jun 10, 2011 0

by Mo Hall Recently I read a study by the Pew Research Center that sent heat waves through my body. The study was about Family Structure. The Pew Center surveyed 2,691 adults asking then if the following “trends” were good, bad or of no…