Less than a month after the Food and Drug Administration authorized new COVID-19 booster shots that target both the omicron and original strains, public awareness is modest, a new KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor survey finds. Half the public says they’ve heard either “a lot” (17%) or “some” (33%) about the […] Read more »
The public’s opinion on religion in sports
More people approve than disapprove of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling to allow a high school football coach to pray on the field. More than 6 in 10 think a coach leading a team in prayer, a player leading a team in prayer, or a coach praying on the field […] Read more »
Parents Beg to Differ With Cataclysmic Views of Schools
The pandemic’s long-term impact on the education of American schoolchildren is, by definition, not going to be known for many years. In the short term, however, recent headlines have suggested the impact has been quite negative. News reports have highlighted the results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) […] Read more »
Americans’ Satisfaction With K-12 Education on Low Side
Americans have become less content in recent years with the quality of the nation’s K-12 education. The 42% who say they are satisfied today is the lowest measured in the past two decades by one percentage point and the second-lowest reading in Gallup’s 23-year trend. Americans’ satisfaction with schools was […] Read more »
The Politics of the Child Tax Credit
In the American Rescue Plan, passed at the outset of the Biden administration, Congress greatly expanded the Child Tax Credit (CTC) to virtually all families with children, and paid it out monthly for the first time. … The expanded Child Tax Credit is expensive, but it is an investment. Economists […] Read more »
Local Public School Ratings Rise, Even as the Teaching Profession Loses Ground
Americans’ ratings of their community’s public schools reached a new high dating back 48 years in this year’s PDK Poll of the Public’s Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, while fewer than ever expressed interest in having their child work as a public school teacher. Results of the 54th annual PDK […] Read more »