Education

The gender wage gap narrows as women move into high-skill jobs and acquire more education. Women are now in the majority in jobs that draw most heavily on either social or fundamental skills.

Teens in the South express their religion in school more often than teens in other parts of the United States.

The 30-year low reflects in part tight labor markets and falling unemployment, but also higher shares of young women at work or in school.

Religion in public schools has long been a controversial issue. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1962 that teachers and administrators cannot lead prayers in public schools, and a decision in 2000 barred school districts from sponsoring student-led prayers at football games. At the same time, the court has held that students retain a First […]

More than 55 years after the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling striking down school-sponsored prayer, Americans continue to fight over the place of religion in public schools. Questions about religion in the classroom no longer make quite as many headlines as they once did, but the issue remains an important battleground in the broader […]

Black and Hispanic adults are more likely than whites to say they feel a need to change the way they talk around people of other races and ethnicities.

Household incomes in the United States have rebounded from their 2012 bottom in the wake of the Great Recession. And for the most part, the typical incomes of households headed by less-educated adults as well as more-educated adults have increased.

About one-third of adults under age 30 have student loan debt. In 2016, the amount students owed varied widely, especially by degree attained.

Compared with 10 years ago, American teens are devoting more of their time in the summer to educational activities and less time to leisure.

Around a quarter of college faculty in the U.S. were nonwhite in fall 2017, compared with 45% of students.