What Americans really think about public schools
Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
Though it has become something of a sport to bash public education, a new poll shows that most Americans actually think highly of their neighborhood public schools and have trust in teachers. The Obama administration’s education agenda gets mixed reviews in the 2010 poll by the Gallup organization and Phi Delta Kappa, a global association of education professionals. The PDK/Gallup poll has been conducted with Gallup annually since 1969. Here are highlights of the poll, published by Kappan Magazine and available here: (more…)
Also: Kappan Magazine