Sentences with phrase «gallup poll»

Representatives of the Gallup Organization have indicated that they are not aware of any polling data that conflict with what is reported in the PDK / Gallup Poll.

(«Support for Private School Vouchers Is on the Increase, Gallup Poll...

According to the Gallup poll, the most common misconceptions are the following: thinking Common Core Standards are federally mandated, thinking they are a «mash - up» of all the states» standards, and thinking that the standards are telling educators how to teach.

First, there was the perennial Phi Delta Kappan / Gallup poll, which showed an ever - wider gap between parents» (very positive) perceptions of their own children's schools and the public's (very negative) perceptions of American schools writ large.

Forty - eight percent of parents and other taxpayers rated their local districts C or lower, according to the 2011 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll.

They were written in the shadow of Labor Day 2009 and the annual Gallup poll about the public perception of unions.

The Education Next survey polled nearly 4,100 adults, and has a margin of error of 2 percent; the PDK / Gallup poll asked 1,000 adults by phone and 3,500 adults online.

A handful of national surveys released each year focus on education, including the Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll about public attitudes toward education and MetLife's annual survey of teachers.

«This Gallup poll shows how important it is to have a strong teacher induction program,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

News outlet EdSource compared the PDK / Gallup poll to those that focused just on California views, showing another gulf in sentiment depending on the polling group.

The PDK / Gallup poll shows that 44 percent of U.S. adults — and 40 percent of parents — believe that parents should be permitted to opt their students out of standardized tests.

The most recent annual Gallup poll on attitudes toward schooling reported that just 20 % of respondents said «improving the nation's lowest - performing schools» was the most important of the nation's education challenges.

On Wednesday, Aug. 21 at 9 a.m. EDT, I'll be chatting live with Bill Bushaw, executive director of Phi Delta Kappa, about the new Gallup poll findings.

The American Federation of Teachers, in its own report on teacher preparation in 2012, found support similar to the PDK / Gallup poll for a more intensive accreditation exam.

Last week's annual Gallup poll on education repeated a frequent finding: Comfortable majorities of Americans agree local school boards should have far more control over what schools teach than state or federal governments.

The PDK / Gallup poll on public attitudes toward education is published each September.

Sixty percent of adults said they oppose Common Core, according to the results of the annual PDK / Gallup Poll of attitudes toward public education.

That year a PDK / Gallup poll noted that nearly two - thirds of U.S. adults have never heard of the Common Core.

Arthur Levine, president of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and former president of Columbia University's Teachers College, told me what jumped out at him in the new PDK / Gallup poll was the increased percentage of parents who said they didn't want their children to become teachers: 43 percent vs. 33 percent in 2005.

In another Gallup poll in 2012, only 19 percent of the public gave an A or a B to the nation's public schools, but 77 percent of parents awarded high marks to their own public school, the one they knew best.

That's a reasonable question to ask — and one not covered by the Gallup poll.

Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Aug. 2 - 6, 2017, with a random sample of 1,017 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.

Michael Feuer, dean of The George Washington University Graduate School of Education and Human Development, suggested the dip in confidence among PDK / Gallup poll respondents might reflect the influence of recent public debates over whether college is worth the money.

According to the most recent Gallup Poll, Americans endorse school choice, particularly in the form of charter schools.

According to the 31st Annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll, the public believes that lack of parent involvement tops the list of obstacles facing education today.

The Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, which was released in September 1998, ranges widely over the educational landscape.

A USA Today / Gallup poll found that by a margin of 61 to 33 percent, Americans oppose ending collective bargaining for public employees.

A 2014 PDK / Gallup poll found that 76 percent of teachers continued to support the goals of Common Core, but only 9 percent supported using those test scores to evaluate teachers.

An August 2013 PDK / Gallup poll found that just 45 percent of public school parents had heard of the Common Core.

To test how well its methods work, Western Governors resorts to an unusual form of evaluation: a Gallup poll.

In the Gallup poll of business leaders done for Lumina, only a third agreed that «higher education institutions in this country are graduating students with the skills and competencies my business needs,» compared to 96 percent of chief academic officers who thought so.

The annual Phi Delta Kappan / Gallup poll on schooling has not asked questions about citizenship since 2000.

The fact that 20 percent of all youths and 50 percent of black teen - agers are out of work, the Gallup Poll's president said, has resulted in major social problems such as teen - age crime, drug abuse, and alcoholism.

A Gallup poll conducted during the week since the tragedy showed a number of different strategies Americans think would prevent future shootings, including 53 percent who said there should be an increased law enforcement presence on school campuses.

In a 1996 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll, 86 percent of Americans reported that they feel «preparing students to be responsible citizens» is a «very important» purpose of the nation's schools; just 76 percent considered it very important that schools «help people become economically self - sufficient.»

The 2010 PDK / Gallup poll reported that, when asked whether they preferred to keep a low - performing school in their community open with the existing teachers and principal and provide comprehensive support, to temporarily close the school and reopen it with a new principal or as a charter school, or to shutter the school, 54 percent chose to leave the school open.

An April Gallup poll, for instance, reported that 59 % of American adults agree with Trump's proposal to «provide federal funding for school - choice programs that allow students to attend any private or public school.»

In the annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll on attitudes toward the nation's schools, the public has, for each of the past several years, ranked discipline among the top three «biggest» problems.

The issue that Terry Moe raises in his article «Cooking the Questions» in the Spring 2002 issue of Education Next concerns Phi Delta Kappa's interpretations of findings from the 2001 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll of the public's attitudes toward education.

Perhaps more telling were the results of a Gallup poll of students in the county's alternative school programs.

Investing in public schools is in, and vouchers are out, according to the annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of trends in education.

The Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools released yesterday shows that people's attitudes are changing.

The pollsters randomly selected 1,093 adults for this 32nd edition of the Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward Public Schools.

In a 2010 PDK / Gallup poll, only 18 percent of Americans surveyed graded our public schools nationally at an «A» or «B.» By contrast, 77 percent of public school parents gave their oldest child's school an A or B, a percentage that grew by eight points over the prior five years.

A 2013 Gallup poll of 500,000 students in grades five through 12 found that nearly eight in 10 elementary students were «engaged» with school, that is, attentive, inquisitive, and generally optimistic.

SOURCE: 35th Annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools

Meanwhile, a 2012 Gallup Poll showed 70 percent of respondents favor parent trigger laws as a long - term education reform solution.

According to the 2007 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll, for example, 22 percent of U.S. adults identified a lack of financial support as the biggest problem facing the schools in their community.

The 2013 PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Towards the Public Schools found that of those who had heard of the Common Core, 49 percent of respondents agree with the false statement that the initiative will create standards in all subjects, and 39 percent agree with the false statement that the Common Core was developed based on a blend of state standards.

As Australian students move through the education system they are becoming less hopeful about their future, a new Gallup poll has found.