Postsecondary Planning

6 Results Found

Research Report
Class of 2023: Who Plans to Go to College?

May 2023

Polls show that Americans are losing faith in the value of a college education, and many, including high school students, are debating whether college is “worth it.” College enrollments are in decline, and undergraduate degree attainment numbers fell last year for the first time in a decade. The percentage of high school graduates enrolling in college immediately after high school has dropped, and there is widespread alarm that community colleges in particular are in trouble.
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Students Weigh In, Part IV: Learning & Well-Being After Covid-19

May 2023

What did students have to say about their learning, sense of belonging, mental health, and support from adults during the 2022-23 school year? How did these elements of social, emotional, and academic development change over the course of the pandemic? And how did experiences in 2022-23 differ across student demographic groups?
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Class of 2022: Planning for the Future in Uncertain Times

May 2022

What do high school seniors in the class of 2022 have to say about their future plans? How do plans – and opportunities – differ across student demographic groups? And what changed for 2022 graduates compared to the class of 2019, the last graduating class before the COVID-19 pandemic?
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Students Weigh In, Part III: Learning & Well-Being During Covid-19

April 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended significant aspects of education in the United States. This report aims to help adults lead with compassion and curiosity about how the pandemic has affected students within K–12 education and answer the following questions: What do students have to say about learning and well-being in spring 2021, and what recommendations do students have about what to prioritize in the upcoming academic year?
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Students Weigh In, Part II: Learning & Well-Being During Covid-19

January 2021

In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic required nearly all of the more than 55 million K-12 students in the U.S. to stop doing school in the way they had been taught, and engage in learning remotely instead. In response to a stark lack of firsthand data about how the pandemic and school closures were affecting students’ lived experiences this report — the second in a three-part series — explores what students have to say about learning and well-being during COVID-19.
Research Report
Students Weigh In, Part I: Learning & Well-Being During Covid-19

July 2020

Education in the United States, as across the globe, changed dramatically when Covid forced schools across the country to close in spring 2020 and over…

Learning During the Pandemic

In response to a stark lack of firsthand data about how students were faring during the COVID-19 pandemic, YouthTruth launched the Students Weigh In project in spring 2020. This series of reports draws upon data from over 500,000 secondary students across more than 600 schools and tracks how secondary students’ perceptions of learning and well-evolved across four time periods (spring 2020, fall 2020, spring 2021, and the 2022-23 school year) relative to the student experience prior to COVID-19.

Students Weigh In Series

Postsecondary Planning

Class of 2023: Who Plans to Go to College?

Students Weigh In, Part IV: Learning & Well-Being After Covid-19

Class of 2022: Planning for the Future in Uncertain Times

Students Weigh In, Part III: Learning & Well-Being During Covid-19

Students Weigh In, Part II: Learning & Well-Being During Covid-19

Students Weigh In, Part I: Learning & Well-Being During Covid-19

Learning During the Pandemic