In rural parts of America, it wasn’t just white men who flocked to the polls on Election Day to vote for Donald Trump. Rural white women were right there in the voting lines with them. The NBC News national exit poll documented how Trump and his populist message disproportionately appealed […] Read more »
NPR Poll: Are Parents Overrating The Quality Of Child Care?
Parents’ views of child care are a little like life in Lake Wobegon — the vast majority say it’s way above average. That’s just one of the findings in a poll looking at child care and health from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School […] Read more »
Why school? Work? Citizenship? Academics?
In a year marked by so many divisions, the newest PDK poll on education shows that Americans don’t agree on the most basic question about the very purpose of a public school education. Is it to prepare students for work? To prepare them for citizenship? Or to prepare them academically? […] Read more »
Five Insights Into Parents’ Satisfaction With Education
As U.S. schoolchildren head back to the classroom, a Gallup review of 16 years of data from its education polls yields five insights into parents’ satisfaction with their own children’s education. CONT. Lydia Saad, Gallup Read more »
Parents’ Fears for Child’s Safety at School Unchanged
U.S. parents’ concern for their children’s physical safety at school has held steady this year at 28%. Parents’ fears most recently edged up to 33% in 2012 and 2013 after the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, in December 2012. Since then, the percentage of parents who fear for their children’s […] Read more »
STAT-Harvard poll: Americans favor late-term abortion if Zika harms fetus
Americans’ strong aversion to late-term abortions drops precipitously if a developing fetus would likely be born with severe damage from the Zika virus, a new STAT-Harvard poll found. CONT. Helen Branswell, STAT Read more »