Sentences with phrase «respondents giving a grade»

Learning the truth about the international standing of American students had a bigger impact, reducing the share of respondents giving a grade of «A» or «B» from 18 to 13 percent and increasing the share of respondents giving a «D» or «F» by 10 percentage points (see Figure 5a).

On the latter point, Gallup polling between 2007 and 2012 indicates that about 50 percent of respondents gave a grade of A or B to the schools in their community, while only 20 percent gave those grades to the nation's schools as a whole.

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That's the same grade respondents gave to U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan when polled in 2005 about his upcoming retirement.

Before 2000, PDK followed a format in which respondents were asked to give the public schools a grade from A to F and then were presented with the two voucher items.

-- the percentage of those giving the schools an «A» or a «B» on the traditional A to F grading scale drops 11 percentage points, from 49 % to 38 %; — support for a proposal to make vouchers available to all families regardless of income jumps 13 percentage points, increasing from 43 % to 56 %, while opposition to the proposal declines from 37 % to 25 %; — support for charter schools shifts upward from 51 % to 58 % when respondents learn the national rank of the local district, while opposition to charters declines from 26 % to 23 %; — opposition to teacher tenure climbs 8 percentage points, from 47 % to 55 %, while support for tenure drops 8 points to 25 %.

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

Respondents always give much higher grades to schools in their communities than to schools in the nation as a whole.

When asked to grade the nation's schools on the same A to F scale traditionally used to evaluate students, only 18 percent of survey respondents give them an «A» or a «B.» This equals the percentage that awarded one of the top two grades in 2009, which had been the lowest level observed across the three years of our survey.

Before introducing the experiment, we asked all respondents to give their best estimate of the U.S. high - school graduation rate within four years of students entering 9th grade.

Most notably, more of them give the schools a D or an F than assign an A or a B. Only 20 percent of survey respondents give the schools in the nation as a whole one of the two top grades, over 50 percent give them a C, and no less than 25 percent grade them with a D or an F. African Americans and Hispanics are even more likely than whites to give the nation's schools low marks.

As in previous years, the public schools nationally are graded more severely — 24 % of respondents give them an A or B grade.

To test the hypothesis that publicly available information has an impact over and above direct observation of school performance, we can compare the ratings given by respondents whose schools were very close to the cutoffs in the point system used by Florida to assign school grades.

Respondents award their children's specific schools the highest grades, with about three quarters giving As and Bs.