‘Look at What These Students Have Gone Through:’ Data Reveal Behavior Concerns

New student behavior data from the Department of Education confirms lingering pandemic impacts, how schools can better support students.

Nearly three years after most kids returned to in-person classes, new federal data reveals troublesome student behavior – from threatening other students in class and online to lack of attentiveness – continues to make learning recovery challenging.

Top challenges in more than half of the country’s schools were students being unprepared or disruptive in the classroom, according to the Department of Education’s research arm in its 2023-24 School Pulse data release.