Nearly a year into the widespread implementation of the Common Core State Standards — an initiative that specifies what U.S. public school students should know in English and math at each grade level — 35% of public school parents have a positive impression of the new education framework and 28% […] Read more »
Poll suggests Dems are missing the mark with swing voters
A new political advocacy group has teamed up with former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) to argue that the economic inequality agenda of Senate Democrats is a loser with swing voters. … The group, Each American Dream, which has a starter budget of $1 million, has commissioned a poll showing that […] Read more »
Race Impacts Decision Not to Pay College Athletes, Say More than Three in Ten
Despite the money top college men’s basketball and football programs generate, college athletes are not paid, and 31% of Americans believe there is some truth to the argument that this is because many student athletes are African American. CONT. HBO Real Sports/Marist Read more »
Public Divides on College Players Union But Most Nix Salaries for Student Athletes
With March Madness focusing fans on college sports, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds Americans split evenly on whether college athletes should be allowed to unionize. But most, regardless, say students shouldn’t be paid to play. The public divides by 47-47 percent on whether student athletes should be able […] Read more »
Large majority opposes paying NCAA athletes
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that a large majority of the general public opposes paying salaries to college athletes beyond the scholarships currently offered. Only 33 percent support paying college athletes. At 64 percent, opposition is nearly twice as high as support, with 47 percent strongly against the […] Read more »
Economy hijacking the agenda
… A range of issues, from education and healthcare to crime and the environment, once competed to be a top priority. But now jobs and the economy have become the black hole that draws all light to itself, leaving almost no luminescence for the other second- and third-tier concerns. The […] Read more »