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Elam, S. M., Rose, L. C., & Gallup, A. M. (1992) The 24th annual Gallup - Phi Delta Kappan Poll of the public's attitude toward the public schools.
Too often, they selectively use the results as verification of their preconceived position that educators are lazy, incompetent, or controlled by their union — positions which, incidentally, are not supported by the annual Gallup Poll survey question that asks parents to grade the schools their children attend.
They were written in the shadow of Labor Day 2009 and the annual Gallup poll about the public perception of unions.
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.
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.
According to the annual Gallup poll, nursing has been ranked as the most trusted profession for 15 years, consecutively.

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For the second year in a row and the third year overall, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made Gallup's annual top 10 list of the world's most admired men.
Another session at the AAAS Annual Meeting discussed public opinions on science and technology as gauged through surveys by the U.S. National Science Board, the Pew Research Center, and the polling company Gallup.
While 52 percent of those surveyed for the annual PDK / Gallup poll said they oppose allowing students to attend private school at «public expense,» support for the notion has jumped 12 percentage points since the...
«The 37th Annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools» found that 68 percent of the 1,000 respondents do not think a single test provides an accurate picture of how...
SOURCE: 35th Annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools
Last year, Gallup's annual national survey on education reported that 22 % of respondents thought the increased use of testing over the past decade has helped school performance and 36 % thought it had hurt.
Investing in public schools is in, and vouchers are out, according to the annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of trends in education.
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 annual Phi Delta Kappan / Gallup poll on schooling has not asked questions about citizenship since 2000.
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.
Sixty percent of adults said they oppose Common Core, according to the results of the annual PDK / Gallup Poll of attitudes toward public education.
The annual PDK / Gallup education poll comes out Wednesday, and policymakers, analysts and pundits will be busy parsing the findings on perceptions of the nation's public schools — from campus safety to high - stakes testing to the new Common Core State Standards.
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.
Over the past two weeks, four national education polls — Education Next, Center for American Progress / Public Policy Poling, The Seventy - Four and PDK / Gallup poll of America's Attitudes toward the Public Schools — provided new information about public attitudes towards high standards and annual assessments.
These conclusions can be drawn from the 47th Annual PDK / GALLUP Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward Public Schools, Aug. 24, 2015, sponsored by PDK, a prestigious educators» group, and the Gallup organization, an internationally respected polling coGALLUP Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward Public Schools, Aug. 24, 2015, sponsored by PDK, a prestigious educators» group, and the Gallup organization, an internationally respected polling coGallup organization, an internationally respected polling company.
I'm encouraged that the strongest sentiments oppose arming teachers and principals and that, given a choice, more respondents prefer mental health services over armed guards,» Doris Terry Williams, executive director of The Rural School and Community Trust, 45th annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools.
William J. Bushaw and Shane Lopez, «Betting on Teachers: The 43rd Annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools,» Phi Delta Kappan, September 2011, 18 — 19.
AACTE's more than 800 member institutions are dedicated to high - quality preparation that ensures the effectiveness, diversity, and readiness of professional educators, supporting the priorities of the American public surveyed in the 47th annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools.
Reacting to results from the annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), said, «Americans are clearly fed up with school - test overkill.
The 46th annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on the public's attitude toward public schools also shows that although America's support for the Common Core State Standards is waning and the public questions the benefits of standardized tests and international assessments, two out of three public school parents would still give high marks to the school that their children attend.
According to the annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll, 71 percent of Americans said teachers should be paid on the basis of their work, and 54 percent said salary should be «somewhat closely» tied to student achievement.
The 46th annual PDK / Gallup poll, released Wednesday, found that 80 percent of Americans have heard about the Common Core and nearly half say they know at least «a fair amount» about the standards.
More than 70 percent of Americans have trust and confidence in the men and women who teach in public schools, according to the 45th annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll (PDF) on the public's attitude toward public schools.
The annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup (PDK / Gallup) poll released this morning found that nearly seven in ten of all adults who said they were familiar with NCLB believe the federal testing mandate is not helping schools.
It is a response to the 41st annual PDK / Gallup poll on how Americans view public education, published in the group's September 2009 issue.
The 45th Annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools,» Phi Delta Kappan 95, no. 1 (2013): 9 — 25; and Lowell C. Rose and Alec M. Gallup, «Urban Dwellers on Urban Schools,» Phi Delta Kappan 84, no. 5 (2003): 408 — 409.
According to the September 2015 47th Annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools, only 31 % of Americans favor allowing vouchers to be used to pay for private and religious schools.
Last month, the results from the second part of the 46th annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools demonstrated that the public is growing more skeptical of using student standardized test scores to evaluate teachers.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 26 / PRNewswire - USNewswire / — Whether the issue is expanding charter schools or implementing merit pay for teachers, Americans appear to agree with President Barack Obama's plans for education reform, according to the 2009 annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools...
Before joining the Governing Board, Bushaw served as chief executive officer of Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK)-- serving as one of the co-authors of the annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools.
(Alexandria, Va. — August 23, 2015) In its advance review of the newly - released 47th Annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) is pleased to find strong public support for local governance, resistance to vouchers, and high marks for local schools.
Testing takes center stage this year as Phi Delta Kappa and Gallup release results from their 47th Annual Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools.
The boost in public school confidence parallels the increase in Americans» satisfaction with public school education as measured in Gallup's annual Work and Education survey, conducted in August.
One piece of evidence came from a Paine Webber - Gallup survey of investors conducted in December 1999, in which the participants were asked their opinion about the annual returns investors could expect to realize over the decade ahead.
Roughly 25 percent of Americans plan to purchase a home in the next decade and 56 percent currently own a home, according to Gallup's annual Economy and Personal Finance survey.
Even if retirement is decades away for you, this subject nonetheless repeatedly tops the list of Americans» economic fears in Gallup's annual Financial Worry metric.
Hawaii is no longer the happiest state in the United States, according to the 2017 results of Gallup and Sharecare's annual Well - Being Index.Every year,... Read More
Importantly, Gallup's annual March update on the environment shows a drop in public concern about global warming across several different measures, suggesting that the global warming message may have lost some footing with Americans over the past year.
The Gallup polling organization has come out with its annual survey on environmental issues and marks some noteworthy trends, including rising concerns about how news accounts have portrayed the issue:
In 2011, Gallup conducted its annual Environment poll a few days before the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan, and at that time, 57 percent of Americans were in favor of nuclear energy.
Gallup's annual update on Americans» attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to believe that scientists themselves are uncertain about its occurrence.
Multiple indicators show less concern, more feelings that global warming is exaggerated By Frank Newport Gallup's annual update on Americans» attitudes toward the environment shows a public that over the last two years has become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening, and more likely to -LSB-...]
The final global warming question in Gallup's annual environment survey deals with the crucial issue of whether global warming is seen as posing a serious threat.
More recently, in March 2016, nearly two - thirds (64 %) of Americans polled told Gallup's annual environmental poll that they are worried a «great deal» or a «fair amount» about global warming.
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