What the data says about the U.S. Department of Education
The Education Department is the main conduit for federal aid to public K-12 schools and a major lender to college students.
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The Education Department is the main conduit for federal aid to public K-12 schools and a major lender to college students.
Similar shares of adults say there’s too little emphasis on encouraging boys and girls to be leaders.
Teen girls and boys in the U.S. face different pressures and report different experiences at school, though they have many of the same goals in life.
Many Americans perceive a rise in rude behavior, and 34% say they see it almost always or often when they go out in public.
The 119th Congress is the most racially and ethnically diverse in history, and it includes the nation’s first openly transgender legislator at the federal level.
Some 3.4% of K-12 students in the United States were homeschooled during the 2022-23 academic year.
On issues as varied as education and crime, Americans often have a rosier view of how things are going in their communities than in the nation as a whole.
Fewer than four-in-ten teens (36%) say they know someone who’s transgender, and 28% know someone who’s nonbinary.
While experiences with loneliness don’t differ much by gender, men seem to turn to their networks less often for connection and emotional support.
Teens are far more likely to say it’s acceptable to use ChatGPT for research (54%) than for math problems (29%) and essays (18%).
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