4. Challenges in the classroom
80% of teachers say they have to address studentsโ behavioral issues at least a few times a week, with 58% saying this happens daily.
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80% of teachers say they have to address studentsโ behavioral issues at least a few times a week, with 58% saying this happens daily.
While experiences with loneliness donโt differ much by gender, men seem to turn to their networks less often for connection and emotional support.
Some 3.4% of K-12 students in the United States were homeschooled during the 2022-23 academic year.
59% of public K-12 teachers say they are at least somewhat worried about the possibility of a shooting ever happening at their school.
Today, nearly all U.S. teens (96%) say they use the internet every day. And the share of teens who report being online โalmost constantlyโ has roughly doubled since 2014-2015 (24% vs. 46%).
Voters who support Biden and Trump have starkly different opinions on many issues, and these two groups are divided internally as well.
In both parties, the share that say the higher education system is going in the wrong direction has gone up by at least 10 percentage points since 2020.
Similar shares of adults say thereโs too little emphasis on encouraging boys and girls to be leaders.
We asked U.S. teens how common a variety of problems are among students at their school. Anxiety and depression tops the list, with 30% of teens saying itโs extremely or very common at their school. About one-in-five teens (22%) say bullying is extremely or very common at their school. A similar share (19%) say the […]
Around nine-in-ten U.S. adults say marijuana should be legal either for medical or recreational use. Just 12% say the drug should not be legal at all.
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