Education

More than six years after the Great Recession ended, almost 10.2 million teens and young adults in the U.S. are neither working nor in school.

From Millennials in the workforce to religion in America, our most popular posts told important stories about trends shaping our world.

College-educated women have an almost eight-in-ten chance of still being married after two decades.

The European Union is awash with languages, but European students study one foreign language far more than any other.

Four-in-ten immigrants arriving in the U.S. in the past five years had completed at least a bachelor’s degree. In 1970, only 20% of newly arrived immigrants were similarly educated.

As the UN looks to adopt new goals for the next 15 years, sub-Saharan Africa still lags behind other developing regions in the areas of poverty, health care and education.

When asked a series of 12 science-related questions, whites, on average, fared better than blacks or Hispanics. What's behind this knowledge gap?

Attention, parents of third graders: If demographic patterns hold, your children could be in the largest U.S. college freshman class ever.

Helped by the economic recovery, the share not working or enrolled in school dropped to a historic low of 16% by 2014, a Pew Research Center analysis found.