How Teens Navigate School During COVID-19
A majority of teens prefer in-person over virtual or hybrid learning. Hispanic and lower-income teens are particularly likely to fear they’ve fallen behind in school due to COVID-19 disruptions.
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A majority of teens prefer in-person over virtual or hybrid learning. Hispanic and lower-income teens are particularly likely to fear they’ve fallen behind in school due to COVID-19 disruptions.
Some 72% of high school teachers say that students being distracted by cellphones is a major problem in their classroom.
Roughly one-in-five teenagers who have heard of ChatGPT say they have used it to help them do their schoolwork.
Here is what our surveys found about the students most likely to lack the home internet connectivity needed to finish schoolwork.
As schools close and classes and assignments shift online, some students do not have reliable access to the internet at home.
Some 15% of U.S. households with school-age children do not have a high-speed internet connection at home. Some teens are more likely to face digital hurdles when trying to complete their homework.
Studying a second foreign language for at least one year is compulsory in more than 20 European countries. In most European countries, students begin studying their first foreign language as a compulsory school subject between the ages of 6 and 9.
How digital tools are changing not only how teens communicate, but also how they gather information about the world and present themselves to others.
Research analyst Kathryn Zickuhr discussed key findings from the Pew Research Center’s multi-year study of public libraries, as well as larger trends in how Americans use technology.
Kathryn Zickuhr discussed Pew Research’s data on reading, writing, and research in the digital age at the edUi 2013 plenary talk.
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