At the same time, 13 per cent of
respondents said their school was forced to run a food bank for needy pupils.
The majority of
respondents said their school was providing subsidies to help meet the costs of day and residential school trips for poorer pupils, while half said their school paid all or part of the cost of participation in sports clubs and other extra-curricular activities.
Most schools do not specify how much they want parents to give, but 14
respondents said their school asks for more than # 20 a month (20 over # 10 a month and 31 over # 5).
In a survey of high - school students released by the National Governors Association in July 2005, more than a third of
respondents said their school had not done a good job of challenging them academically or preparing them for college; almost two - thirds said they would work harder if the courses were more demanding or interesting.
Forty - five per cent of
respondents said their school does not have a policy in place to deal with parental contact out - of - hours, meaning that many are expected to respond to emails and texts from parents during evenings and weekends.
40 % of
respondents said schools could do more to motivate children, while 56 % of 55 - 64 year olds believe this is an area for significant improvement.
Not exact matches
«Our
schools need to prepare the students of today to manage their lives and careers,»
said one
respondent.
While the oldest Gen Z - ers have just entered the workforce, 77 % of Monster's survey
respondents say they're still in
school.
«Anyone can now put up a website and an online survey for almost no cost, and they can get
respondents in there somehow,»
says Marshall David Rice, an associate professor at York University's Schulich
School of Business.
Almost 80 per cent of Western Australians have doubts about the mass media according to a recent study by the
School of Marketing at Curtin Business
School.More than two - thirds (77 per cent) of
respondents said they had at some time heard or read a...
In addition, 42 % of
respondents said the Florida shooting could have been prevented if
school teachers were allowed to carry guns.
On the other hand, only 43 % of male
respondents said their parents did not contribute financially to their
schooling.
Just 20 per cent of
respondents said they agreed that new state - funded state
schools should be allowed to select up to 100 per cent of their pupils on the basis of faith while 79 per cent of Anglicans opposed the new selection proposals.
Just over half of the
respondents said their students initially complained about nutritionally improved
school meals, but 70 % agreed their students now actually like the lunches.
The project's polls in Louisiana, Ohio, and North Carolina asked about
school fundraisers, and most
respondents said they preferred activity - based events such as car washes or walk - a-thons to food - focused events.
About 37 per cent of
respondents aged 16 to 24
said they would prefer to send their children to an Islamic
school, compared to 25 per cent of 45 to 54 - year - olds and 19 per cent of the over 55s.
On education, only 19 percent of
respondents said the state's new Common Core educational standards have improved public
schooling while 40 percent
say they have worsened public education.
In addition to the 10 percent of survey
respondents who
said they were satisfied with their
school's Internet service, another 34 percent
said they were somewhat satisfied.
On Mrs May's policy platform, some 51 % of
respondents said grammar
schools are «good for social mobility,» although only 47 % backed grammar selection through the 11 - plus exam.
«Considering both the negative effects and the positive outcomes that
respondents sometimes reported, the survey results confirm our view that neither users nor researchers can be cavalier about the risks associated with psilocybin,»
says Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., a psychopharmacologist and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine.
Nearly one quarter (24 per cent) of YLT
respondents said their families had difficulties in affording their
school uniform, whilst holidays organised by
schools were difficult to afford by nearly four in ten (39 per cent) families of YLT
respondents.
«We found that most
respondents did not think financial deprivation would lead them to behave immorally,»
said Nina Mažar, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Toronto's Rotman
School of Management and one of the lead researchers of the study.
The ASCL survey found that despite Ofsted
saying inspections do not require
schools to predicts attainment of their pupils or progress score, 62 per cent of
respondents stated that they were asked to predict pupil attainment.
In the survey carried out by the e-Learning Foundation, 29 per cent of the 500
respondents who do not run any form of home access programme
said they planned to use some of their Pupil Premium funds to address 1:1 access, while that number increased to 51 per cent amongst
schools already running a programme.
Forty - four per cent of
school respondents said «knowing what type of support is needed» is a barrier to providing mental health support for pupils, and 37 per cent
said they don't feel confident in commissioning a counsellor or therapist.
Only 15 per cent of
respondents to the survey
said they supported religious selection, with 68 per cent of Christian
respondents opposed to the idea and 82 per cent of Muslim
respondents expressing a preference for no religious selection in
schools.
The survey found
schools were willing to be flexible in order to recruit the right staff: 82 per cent of
respondents said they had restructured roles in order to make sure they filled a post.
Forty percent of
respondents believe that students who fail a course should be allowed to retake it online, and 77 %
say that if a
school does not offer an advanced course, then students should be allowed to take it online.
Almost 60 percent of
respondents to the national survey
said they knew «very little» or «nothing at all» about the independent public
schools.
Among white
respondents, 64 % of those with a university degree
say their local
schools deserve a «grade» of A or B, while only 51 % of those without that degree rate their local
schools that highly.
Thus, Ednext found 36 percent of the
respondents «neither supporting or opposing charter
schools», while PDK found only 4 percent
saying they did not know.
Respondents said the main reasons to learn a language in
school was to develop pupils» understanding of cultural practices (77 %), build pupils» interpersonal skills (74 %) and to establish a path for lifelong learning (61 %).
Almost a fifth of teachers (18 %)
say that the safety of staff in their
school is a big concern, with only 37 % of
respondents believing it is not an issue.
When people are asked whether the federal government should continue the requirement that all students be tested in math and reading in each grade from 3rd through 8th and at least once in high
school, nearly four out of five
respondents say they favor the policy (see Figure 2).
The importance of better education about periods for young women was something the majority of
respondents emphatically agreed upon, over two thirds (68 %)
said that if girls were better educated about periods and how they affect their bodies, they wouldn't be so reluctant to take part in sports at
school.
73 percent of
respondents said they would be more inclined to support the requirement if the subject choice was more flexible, and 74 per cent indicated that their
school does not have enough teachers in the EBacc subjects, highlighting the current issue of teacher shortages across the country.
Thirty per cent of survey
respondents found applying to university difficult, 40 % report receiving little support from their
school in planning their application, and 38 %
say they felt intimidated when applying for university — highlighting the value of supporting young people during the process.
A separate survey of 1,003 parents across Britain also showed that 92 per cent of
respondents think
schools have a duty to support the wellbeing and mental health of students, while more than half
said they want more information about what their child's
school is doing to promote this.
Indeed, a 705 of 1,300
respondents to a survey conducted by the Design and Technology Association,
said that government accountability measures were resulting in decreasing numbers of pupils opting to study the subject at GCSE and, in some
schools, it has been cut entirely.
67 per cent of
respondents said they would send their child to a grammar
school if they had passed an entrance exam, with just 10 per cent
saying they would not.
When treatment - group parents with children in private
schools were asked in the third - year follow - up study which type of
school their child was attending, 93 percent of Hispanic
respondents said it was a Catholic
school and 71 percent of the African American
respondents gave the same response.
Worse, 39 percent of
respondents said they supported «the formation of charter
schools,» down from 51 percent in 2016.
That ability far outranks such factors as
school attended, grades received, and family income and neighborhood, the
respondents said.
For example, 47 percent of
respondents said they supported «
school vouchers,» while 65 percent supported «scholarship tax credits» and 75 percent supported «education savings accounts.»
The ballot also discovered that: 96 per cent of
respondents lacked confidence in proposed Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) measures to reduce workload in the 2016 - 17 session; 94 per cent of
respondents said they lacked confidence in the SQA's plans to reduce workload; and the Tackling Bureaucracy Report, a Scottish government initiative from March 2015, had failed to reduce teachers» workload in 96 per cent of
schools.
Overall, 49 percent
say that their local public
schools deserve an «A» or a «B» on the scale traditionally used to evaluate students, but only 20 percent
say so when
respondents are asked about
schools nationwide.
Emma Knights, chief executive of the NGA,
said: «Those governing our
schools are generally unhappy with the direction of government education policy: with more than six times the number of
respondents negative about the government's policies than positive.
Over 75 per cent of
respondents said their workload had increased since their
school converted to academy status.
Additionally,
respondents were critical of the evidence for the government's new eduction plans, as 81 per cent
said they believed there is no evidence for opening grammar
schools and 79 per cent believed there is no evidence for increasing selection in education.
43 per cent of
respondents said that children with SEND in their
schools were not eligible for funding, with 71 per cent
saying that the new system does not enable children with SEN to be identified fast enough.