Education

Half of U.S. adults say colleges and universities that brought students back to campus made the right decision, while 48% say they did not.

38% of parents with children whose K-12 schools closed in the spring said that their child was likely to face digital obstacles in schoolwork.

Between February and June 2020, the share of young adults who are neither enrolled in school nor employed has more than doubled.

The drop in employment in three months of the COVID-19 recession is more than double the drop effected by the Great Recession over two years.

Americans with lower incomes are particularly likely to have concerns related to the digital divide and the digital “homework gap.”

The COVID-19 pandemic sent many on the move to places other than their usual residence – and they may not know where or how to be counted.

64% of parents with children in elementary, middle or high school express at least some concern about their children falling behind.

91% of EU students in primary and secondary school were studying English in 2017 – more than all other foreign languages learned combined.

The educational attainment of recently arrived Latino immigrants in the U.S. has reached its highest level in at least three decades.

As schools close and classes and assignments shift online, some students do not have reliable access to the internet at home.