Fewer young men are in college, especially at 4-year schools
College enrollment among young Americans has been declining over the past decade, and it’s mostly due to fewer young men pursuing degrees.
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College enrollment among young Americans has been declining over the past decade, and it’s mostly due to fewer young men pursuing degrees.
59% of public K-12 teachers say they are at least somewhat worried about the possibility of a shooting ever happening at their school.
School has started in most of the United States. On average, K-12 public schools will be in session close to 180 days this year.
During the 2021-22 school year, 83% of the country’s public, private and charter school students in pre-K through 12th grade attended traditional public schools.
We asked public K-12 teachers, teens and U.S. adults how they see topics related to race and LGBTQ issues playing out in the classroom.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to limit affirmative action in higher education is likely to have the biggest impact on a relatively small group of schools.
Most K-12 students at U.S. public schools have a school year of about 180 days, but when that year starts and ends varies substantially by region.
Hispanic enrollment at postsecondary institutions in the U.S. has risen from 1.5 million in 2000 to a new high of 3.8 million in 2019.
Public K-12 schools in the United States educate about 7.3 million students with disabilities – a number that has grown over the last few decades.
In 2021, nearly 2.5 million Latinos in the United States held advanced degrees such as master’s degrees or doctorates.
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