mail, telephone or face-to-face interviewers. households are sampled with a known probability of selection from the NORC National Frame, and then contacted by U.S. AmeriSpeak is a nationally representative, probability-based panel of the U.S. teens conducted March 7 to April 10, 2018, using the NORC AmeriSpeak panel. The survey data cited here comes from a Pew Research Center poll of 743 U.S.

This analysis examines the impact of the internet and the digital divide on youth in the United States. Some 62% of these students use the internet at home for homework, compared with smaller shares of students whose parents have some post-high school education (53%), have only a high school education (52%) or have no high school education (48%).

Students whose parents graduated from college are more likely to use the internet for homework at home. Roughly two-thirds of students attending suburban schools (65%) say they use the internet for homework every day or almost every day, compared with 58% who attend schools in cities, 50% of those who attend in rural areas and 44% of those attending schools in towns. There are differences in these patterns by community type and parents’ education level. Just 6% of students say they never use the internet at home for this purpose. Roughly six-in-ten students (58%) say they use the internet at their home to do homework every day or almost every day, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the 2018 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Here are key findings about the internet, homework and how the digital divide impacts American youth.ġThe majority of eighth-grade students in the United States rely on the internet at home to get their homework done. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)Īs K-12 officials in many states close schools and shift classes and assignments online due to the spread of the new coronavirus, they confront the reality that some students do not have reliable access to the internet at home – particularly those who are from lower-income households. A high school sophomore in Brooklyn, New York, checks into a class from home after her school announced it would be closed due to concerns about the new coronavirus.

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