One reason a serious budget negotiation seems unlikely this fall is that any meaningful assault on the federal deficit would require each party to confront the contradictions between its fiscal agenda and its electoral coalition. Two long-term trends are creating this tension. One is an electoral reshuffling: Republicans increasingly depend […] Read more »
Harm to Child at School a Top Crime Concern for Parents
Parents in Nevada this week faced one of parents’ biggest crime fears — having their child harmed at school — during a shooting that left two students injured and the gunman and a teacher dead. Prior to that attack, 25% of U.S. parents said they “frequently” worry about their child […] Read more »
More people express uncertainty in chance to achieve the American Dream
Four years into an economic recovery in which most of the benefits have flowed to the top earners, a majority believe that the American Dream is becoming markedly more elusive, according to the results of a Washington Post-Miller Center Poll exploring Americans’ changing definition of success and their confidence in […] Read more »
Parents and Teens Share (Often Unrealistic) Dreams About College
It’s easy to assume that teenagers don’t listen to their parents. But, according to the latest All State/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll on childhood in America, when it comes to expectations about school, kids are listening loud and clear–even through their earbuds. If anything, the U.S. teenagers surveyed as part […] Read more »
Americans Grade Math as the Most Valuable School Subject
Math is the clear winner when Americans are asked to say which school subject has been most valuable to them in their lives, followed by language arts — English, literature, or reading — and science. Math and English were also the top two subjects when Gallup first asked this question […] Read more »
California Voters Strongly Support Student Testing
Despite calls from Sacramento to reduce standardized testing in California public schools, voters strongly support the use of state standardized tests, both as an essential way to measure student performance and as an important element in teachers’ evaluations, a new PACE/USC Rossier School of Education Poll shows. Nearly two-thirds of […] Read more »