As California schools begin administering new online standardized tests, most public school parents say they have heard nothing about them, according to a statewide survey by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). … More generally, Californians are divided about whether standardized tests are accurate measures of a student’s progress […] Read more »
More Than One-Third Believes Decline in African American Baseball Players is a Concern
More than one in three Americans considers the decline in African American players in Major League Baseball to be a problem. … African Americans, 49%, are more likely than whites, 34%, to consider the composition of MLB players to be troublesome. CONT. Marist Poll Read more »
Parents’ College Funding Worries Are Top Money Concern
More U.S. parents worry about having enough money to pay for their children’s college education than other Americans worry about any common financial concerns. The 73% of parents of children younger than 18 who worry about funding college tops the 70% of lower-income Americans who worry about having enough money […] Read more »
USC study cites political risk to GOP for opposing immigration plan
A new USC report warns of possible political blowback if Republicans continue to try to block the expansion of President Obama’s deportation relief program. The report, released Wednesday by the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration, looked at the demographics of children whose parents would benefit from Obama’s […] Read more »
Percentage Saying Vaccines Are Vital Dips Slightly
A slight majority of Americans, 54%, say it is extremely important that parents get their children vaccinated, down from the 64% who held this belief 14 years ago. Another 30% call it “very important” — unchanged from 2001. The rest, 15%, consider it “somewhat,” “not very” or “not at all […] Read more »
Majority of Americans want vaccines to be required as measles outbreak grows
A new CNN/ORC poll shows nearly 8 of 10 Americans believe parents should be required to vaccinate their healthy children against preventable diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella and polio. If the children are not vaccinated, most agree the child should not be allowed to attend public school or day […] Read more »