72% of U.S. high school teachers say cellphone distraction is a major problem in the classroom
Some 72% of high school teachers say that students being distracted by cellphones is a major problem in their classroom.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Some 72% of high school teachers say that students being distracted by cellphones is a major problem in their classroom.
53% of Republicans have at least some trust in information from national news outlets in 2025, up from 40% in 2024.
Teens are far more likely to say it’s acceptable to use ChatGPT for research (54%) than for math problems (29%) and essays (18%).
Naturalized citizens make up a record number of eligible voters in 2022, most of whom have lived here more than 20 years.
Overwhelming majorities expect transgender people (84%) and gay and lesbian people (76%) to lose influence under Trump.
More than four-in-ten Americans (44%) back bans on student cellphone use during the entire school day, up from 36% last fall.
Christians remain the largest religious group, and Muslims grew the fastest from 2010 to 2020. Read how the global share of Buddhists, Hindus, Jews and the religiously unaffiliated changed.
Here are five key findings about YouTube from our research to mark its 20th anniversary.
Half of U.S. workers say they are extremely or very satisfied with their job overall. Another 38% say they are somewhat satisfied, and 12% are not too or not at all satisfied with their job. As was the case in 2023, self-employed workers (60%) are more likely than those who are not self-employed (49%) to […]
Editorial note to readers A version of this study was originally published on June 10. We previously used the term “racial conspiracy theories” as an editorial shorthand to describe a complex and mixed set of findings. By using these words, our reporting distorted rather than clarified the point of the study. Changes to this version include: an […]
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