Americans are more pessimistic than optimistic about many aspects of the country’s future
63% of Americans are pessimistic about the country’s moral and ethical standards, and 59% are pessimistic about its education system.
Partisan divides over K-12 education in 8 charts
The public is sharply divided along partisan lines on topics ranging from what should be taught in schools to how much influence parents should have over the curriculum.
As the 2022 campaign draws to a close, here’s how federal, state and local candidates have used Twitter
One-in-five federal, state and local candidate tweets in 2022 have mentioned race, abortion, education or the economy.
Private, selective colleges are most likely to use race, ethnicity as a factor in admissions decisions
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.
What federal education data shows about students with disabilities in the U.S.
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.
A dwindling number of new U.S. college graduates have a degree in education
Both the number and share of new college graduates with a bachelor’s degree in education have decreased over the last few decades.
College grads in U.S. tend to partner with each other – especially if their parents also graduated from college
In 2019, 81% of household heads with a bachelor’s degree or more education had a spouse or partner who was also a college graduate.
Women now outnumber men in the U.S. college-educated labor force
Women have overtaken men and now account for more than half (50.7%) of the college-educated labor force in the United States.
Most K-12 parents say first year of pandemic had a negative effect on their children’s education
About six-in-ten parents of K-12 children (61%) say the first year of the pandemic had a negative effect on their children’s education.
Black and Hispanic Americans, those with less education are more likely to fall out of the middle class each year
In the United States, the transience of economic status varies significantly across racial and ethnic groups and by level of education.
