Seventy-eight percent of Americans say children educated in private schools receive an excellent or good education, more than say that about four other types of U.S. schooling. At least 6 in 10 say parochial schools or charter schools provide a quality education, while far fewer say that about home schooling […] Read more »
No Child Left Behind Rated More Negatively Than Positively
More Americans think the No Child Left Behind Act, which has governed federal education grants to public schools for a decade, has made education worse rather than better, by 29% to 16%. Thirty-eight percent say NCLB hasn’t made much of a difference, while 17% are not familiar enough with the […] Read more »
An economics of national pride
… Typically, Democrats tie themselves up in strategic knots debating whether their future lies in the center or on the left. … Two moderate Colorado Democrats who won in the face of the 2010 Republican tide see a way out of this dilemma. The key to a philosophically coherent cross-class coalition, […] Read more »
California voters oppose cuts in K-12 schools
California voters overwhelmingly oppose the automatic spending cuts that would fall almost entirely on K-12 public schools, along with colleges and universities, if a tax-raising initiative backed by Gov. Jerry Brown fails on the November ballot, according to a Field Poll released Wednesday. [cont.] Wyatt Buchanan, SFGate.com Read more »
Confidence in Public Schools at New Low
Americans’ confidence in public schools is down five percentage points from last year, with 29% expressing “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in them. That establishes a new low in public school confidence from the 33% measured in Gallup’s 2007 and 2008 Confidence in Institutions polls. [cont.] […] Read more »