Sentences with phrase «education poll finds»

The AP - NORC education poll found that Americans have a largely positive view of school choice, but know little about it.

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The MassINC Polling Group, working for the Barr Foundation found that improving Massachusetts highways, roads, and bridges was the top priority for respondents, ahead of improving education or lowering taxes.

(Indeed, the 1997 UUA survey and Casebolt's poll also found that current members rarely cited «religious education for children» as a reason they joined a UU congregation.)

The union also released the results of a poll conducted by National Opinion Research that found 63 percent of New Yorkers would prefer to see a temporary income tax increase on the state's highest earners (1 percent for those who make more than $ 1 million and 2 percent for those who make over $ 5 million) over education funding cuts of between $ 800 million and $ 1.4 million.

A poll released this week found that public satisfaction with Gove has reached new lows with almost two - thirds saying he is doing a bad job as education secretary.

But that same poll found that Buffalo voters are an unhappy lot over the state of the city, with voters giving him poor grades for his handling of education and employment issues.

The poll finds voters are divided over two education related issues.

Allies of the state's teachers union this week were emboldened by a Quinnipiac University poll that found voters trust the teachers unions over Cuomo to help improve education.

Today's Siena poll finds a whopping 77 percent of New Yorkers view new Gov. Andrew Cuomo favorably, up from 70 percent last month, and 72 percent say they at least somewhat support his 2011 - 2012 spending plan, although they oppose his call to reduce education aid.

The poll found Cuomo would handily defeat actress and public education advocate Cynthia Nixon in a Democratic primary, 66 percent to 19 percent.

Voters also took a dim view of the Common Core, with only 19 % saying it has improved public education and 40 % saying it things worse, the poll found.

Meanwhile a new poll finds many New Yorkers think the quality of education in the state is deteriorating.

A new poll finds many New Yorkers share the group's distress over the direction of education, if not the desire for more money to be spent.

The survey by Siena College finds only 15 percent of those polled think the quality of education has improved under Cuomo, while 41 percent think it's gotten worse and 38 percent say it's unchanged.

«I saw that meeting as my doing my job of trying to find a way to convey, in any way I could, that the public and even his voters had fierce opposition to the education cuts,» she said, adding that she told Bannon their polling showed half of Trump's voters opposed his cuts.

However, the poll found education — typically one the top issues for voters in New York — has been replaced by taxes as the issue voters want to see Cuomo tackle in the new year.

Advocates of increased education funding seized on the poll's findings.

The poll also found 64 percent of voters give him a negative job performance rating on ethics, education and his handling of the state's economy.

The poll found by a margin of 58 percent to 22 percent believe Cuomo would do a better job for the city than Nixon, a public education advocate and actress.

A poll out Tuesday on Governor Cuomo and education issues finds, though, that while Cuomo has gained popularity, New Yorkers prefer that education remain in the hands of the Regents.

Ron Deutsch, with New Yorkers for Fiscal Fairness, says a Siena poll this week found that people in the state do care about tax cuts, as well as education as chief priorities.

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

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Polling by Education Next and others continues to find that the public prefers universal programs to means - tested approaches — responding more positively, for instance, to the notion of vouchers for all than to vouchers for low - income families only (see «The 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform,» features, Winter 2016).

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For example, the Gallup / Education Week poll found that just two percent of superintendents strongly agree that their school district is getting adequate support at the federal level to implement Common Core — and 56 percent strongly disagree with that statement.

The NSW Education Department's polling found that students are embracing the new digital tests.

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

The education world continues to digest the headline finding from the 2017 EdNext Poll: a dozen - percentage - point one - year decline in support for charter schools, with similar drops among Republicans and Democrats.

Education Next's Jackie Kerstetter was on hand to discuss findings from the latest Education Next - PEPG poll.

A fall 2010 poll by Tulane University's Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives found that 60 percent of New Orleans residents opposed returning the schools to the OPSB.

Corporate giving to precollegiate education grew by nearly 50 percent from 1987 to 1988, a new survey has found, while higher education's share of education contributions dropped for the first time in the poll's 15 - year history.

In 2013, an Education Next poll found that even though half the public supported charters, and just a quarter opposed them, another quarter had no opinion at all.

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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 eEducation Next concerns Phi Delta Kappa's interpretations of findings from the 2001 Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll of the public's attitudes toward educationeducation.

Critics of testing will take no comfort from the findings of the 2015 Education Next poll — but neither will supporters of the Common Core State Standards, school choice, merit pay, or tenure reform.

Not surprisingly, today's students use social media as their main form of communication and connection, yet a University of Phoenix ® College of Education survey conducted online by Harris Poll in April among 1,002 U.S. K - 12 teachers found that only «13 percent of today's K - 12 teachers have integrated social media into classroom learning, with an overwhelming majority (87 percent) reporting they have not embraced social platforms.»

An essay summarizing the findings of this year's Education Next poll is available here.

The survey, conducted for the Washington - based American Council on Education, a higher education organization, found that 54 percent of 1,000 registered voters believe students should have to take more math and science courses, and only 31 percent of those polled believe that math and science classes offered to college students not majoring in those fields are «very relevant» to life after grEducation, a higher education organization, found that 54 percent of 1,000 registered voters believe students should have to take more math and science courses, and only 31 percent of those polled believe that math and science classes offered to college students not majoring in those fields are «very relevant» to life after greducation organization, found that 54 percent of 1,000 registered voters believe students should have to take more math and science courses, and only 31 percent of those polled believe that math and science classes offered to college students not majoring in those fields are «very relevant» to life after graduation.

A poll this month by Louis Harris & Associates has found that a majority of Americans support a vast overhaul of the education system, and that nearly three - quarters of the respondents believe teachers, rather than legislatures or school boards, should enact the reforms.

A poll in late autumn 2010 by Tulane University's Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives found that 60 percent of New Orleans residents opposed returning the schools to OPSB.

The poll, which quizzed 2,612 year 7 - 11 children in England and Wales, found that 74 per cent of young people think that they are either very or fairly likely to go into higher education.

That's one of the findings of a poll recently commissioned by the Public Education Network and Education Week, and the subject of this latest «Close Up» look at the poll results.

An opinion poll conducted by the Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education, has found that eighty per cent of those surveyed — including two - thirds of Catholics, are opposed to removing the current cap, which limits schools from not selecting more than half of their pupils on religious grounds.

The Center on Education Policy surveyed districts in the spring and found that 46 percent expect funding decreases of 5 percent or more in the 2011 — 12 school year (the poll asked districts about their «total funds available» for the year, excluding federal stimulus monies).

On education matters, a heap of valuable information can be found in the poll results presented in this issue.

Our findings are based on Education Next polls that have explored public opinion on many questions over the years 2007 to 2012.

The Education Next poll has asked about charter schools for a decade and found plurality support from Democrats and Republicans in every year.

The polls by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK) found a perceived lack of funding to be the biggest problem facing schools in respondents» communities, with AFT also identifying local and federal education budget cuts as the most worrisome trend in education.

The unreported PDK numbers echo the findings released by Martin West, Michael Henderson, Sam Barrows and me as part of the 2017 Education Next poll released on August 15.