Academic, emotional concerns outweigh COVID-19 risks in parents’ views about keeping schools open
53% of parents of K-12 students say schools in the United States should be providing a mix of in-person and online instruction this winter.
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53% of parents of K-12 students say schools in the United States should be providing a mix of in-person and online instruction this winter.
Public K-12 teachers express low job satisfaction and few are optimistic about the future of U.S. education.
For the most part, Americans don’t think a woman president would do better or worse than a man when it comes to key leadership traits or the handling of various policy areas. At the same time, the public sees differences in the way men and women running for higher office are treated by the media.
Most Americans who have heard about the law say it’s had a positive impact on gender equality in the United States (63%).
Six-in-ten U.S. adults say gun violence is a very big problem in the country today, up 9 percentage points from spring 2022.
Workers who quit a job in 2021 say low pay (63%), no opportunities for advancement (63%) and feeling disrespected at work (57%) were reasons why.
49% of Americans say the availability of affordable housing in their local community is a major problem, up 10 points from early 2018.
One year into the coronavirus pandemic, about a fifth of U.S. adults (21%) are experiencing high levels of psychological distress.
The reasons Americans without children don’t expect to have them range from just not wanting to have kids to concerns about climate change.
Nearly half of U.S. adults say the pandemic has driven people in their community apart. Many see a long road to recovery: About one-in-five say life in their community will never get back to the way it was before COVID-19.
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