These are among the many findings to emerge from this installment of the EdNext Survey, administered to some 5,000 respondents in May and June of 2014 (see
methodology sidebar below).
Using the equating method described in
the methodology sidebar, it is possible to link states» performance on the U.S. tests to countries» performance on the international tests, because representative samples of U.S. students have taken all four series of tests.
Despite this modest dip, we do not conclude that there has been any real change in public opinion, because the downward shift between 2012 and 2013 could simply have been a function of our moving the neutral response option in 2013 (see
methodology sidebar).
These are among the many findings to emerge from the ninth annual Education Next survey, administered in May and June 2015 to a nationally representative sample of some 4,000 respondents, including oversamples of roughly 700 teachers, 700 African Americans, and 700 Hispanics (see
methodology sidebar).
For a summary, see
the methodology sidebar.)
All parents were asked the same set of questions about their children's schools, modified only to specify the relevant school sector (see
methodology sidebar).
(See
the Methodology sidebar below for survey specifics.)
Not exact matches
These are among the questions we explore in this, the fifth - annual Education Next — PEPG Survey, which interviewed a nationally representative sample of some 2,600 American citizens during April and May of 2011 (see
sidebar for survey
methodology).
Nearly 2,800 respondents participated in the 2010 Education Next — PEPG Survey, which was administered in May and June of 2010 (see
sidebar for survey
methodology).
To provide some preliminary answers to these questions, we examined the course syllabi used in a cross-section of principal - preparation programs from across the United States (see
sidebar, page 37, for our
methodology).
(For survey
methodology, see
sidebar) Here we report the opinions of both the public at large and three ethnic subgroups (whites, African Americans, and Hispanics).