Education

A median of 62% of adults across the 14 countries surveyed this summer generally believe most people can be trusted.

As school districts across the United States continue to grapple with the best way to provide instruction amid the coronavirus outbreak, most parents of students in K-12 schools express concern about their children falling behind in school because of disruptions caused by the pandemic.

Half of U.S. adults say colleges and universities that brought students back to campus made the right decision, while 48% say they did not.

38% of parents with children whose K-12 schools closed in the spring said that their child was likely to face digital obstacles in schoolwork.

Across 34 countries, a median of 65% said in 2019 they felt pessimistic about reducing the gap between the rich and poor in their country.

Between February and June 2020, the share of young adults who are neither enrolled in school nor employed has more than doubled.

The drop in employment in three months of the COVID-19 recession is more than double the drop effected by the Great Recession over two years.

Americans with lower incomes are particularly likely to have concerns related to the digital divide and the digital “homework gap.”

The pandemic has forced a shift to online learning, a transition that has been challenging for the nearly 7 million disabled students in the U.S.

The COVID-19 pandemic sent many on the move to places other than their usual residence – and they may not know where or how to be counted.