Sentences with phrase «which public opinion surveys»

As I've pointed out in other essays, the notion that the whole world is anxious about global warming or climate change is an artefact of the way in which public opinion surveys construct their questions.

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The Elon Poll / The Business Journals survey gauged public opinion in these metro areas — many of the country's largest — about landing the project, which promises to be home to 50,000 workers and an investment of $ 5 billion.

Their conservative leanings are part of a broader trend increasingly documented in freshman surveys, federal statistics, and public opinion polls, which have found declining rates of approval for casual sex and legal abortion among the young and a rise in the percentage of teenagers who say they are virgins.

Professor Rachel Gibson, from The University of Manchester, led the study which used data from a survey of national e-campaign managers and public opinion data.

His poll numbers, which dipped below 50 percent briefly (at least in one public opinion survey) have bounced back into the low 60s.

«No one is very enamored of anything,» said Lee M. Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion in New York, which conducted the national survey of registered voted Dec. 4 - 6 for McClatchy.

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The results of the survey, which will be published today on the Health Affairs Blog, by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, show a strong divergence from the opinions of many politicians and commentators, as well as the general public.

All this is reported in the 4th annual survey of public opinion on educational issues by Harvard's Program on Educational Policy and Governance and Education Next, which I, with William Howell and Martin West, help to direct.

To see whether the presence of a charter school within a neighborhood is correlated with public opinion — either favorable or unfavorable — we surveyed a representative sample of residents living in zip codes in which at least one charter school is located.

«Schooling Satisfaction: Arizona Parents» Opinions on Using Education Savings Accounts,» which I co-authored with Jason Bedrick of the Cato Institute, found that all of the parents surveyed reported some level of satisfaction with savings accounts, while only 43 percent of families reported any level of satisfaction with their previous public school.

Let me not forget the journal's annual survey of public opinion, which celebrates its own 5th anniversary this summer.

Our findings echo those reported by the 2016 Education Next survey, which examined the opinions of parents whose children attend public, charter, and private schools (see «What Do Parents Think of Their Children's Schools?

Perhaps the higher levels of support we observed in 2014 reflected temporary shocks to public opinion stemming from events such as Wisconsin governor Scott Walker's recall election and the landmark Vergara v. California decision that struck down California's teacher evaluation and tenure laws, both of which took place while our survey was in the field.

Public - opinion surveys suggest that the proposal — which ties hiring, firing, and transfer decisions to teacher effectiveness, while still giving some consideration to seniority — may be more popular than the merit - pay or school - voucher proposals.

The key take - away from this survey is that parents have strong opinions about public education which are formed in the context of their deep love for their children.

The Gates Foundation and Scholastic recently released «Primary Sources: 2012 - America's Teachers on the Teaching Profession,» which surveyed 10,000 teachers across the country on their honest, professional opinions about the major issues in American public education.

A new public opinion survey conducted by Lake Research Partners has concluded that a majority of Missouri voters do not want their state legislature to repeal or weaken Proposition B, the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act, which was approved in November.

The Kennel Club commissioned an independent survey on public opinion in England regarding electric shock collars which found that 72 % of the public disapprove of the use of electric shock collars and 74 % would support the government in introducing a ban on electric shock collars.

The Kennel Club has commissioned an independent survey into the public's opinion of electric shock collars for dogs, which found that:

This year (2015), the Open Roboethics initiative conducted a survey to better understand public opinions on the question of the ethics and governance of autonomous weapons systems that makes the decision to use lethal force without requiring human intervention and systems in which a person in a remote location makes the decision.