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American Association of Community Colleges, 2019
This issue of "DataPoints" shows the percent of adults by selected demographics who support or oppose free tuition at public colleges and universities. The data demonstrate that nearly three-fourths of American adults support free college tuition for those who qualify for it.
Descriptors: Tuition, Paying for College, Adults, Public Colleges
Johnson, Jean – Kettering Foundation, 2014
At state and institutional levels, leaders are discussing and enacting policy changes that could shape the future of higher education for decades-especially public higher education. But when citizens talk about the mission of higher education today, their conversations are different from those of policymakers. How do their values and concerns…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society), Public Opinion
Bushaw, William J.; Lopez, Shane J. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2010
This is the latest in a series of polls sponsored by Phi Delta Kappa International with the Gallup Organization. The results of this year's poll are presented along with past results, when applicable, to give both a snapshot of Americans' opinions about their schools and an indication of how those opinions are changing over time. [Commentaries by…
Descriptors: Opinions, Attitudes, Public Schools, Educational Improvement
Moiduddin, Emily; Aikens, Nikki; Tarullo, Louisa; West, Jerry; Xue, Yange – Administration for Children & Families, 2012
This report provides a portrait of children who entered Head Start for the first time in fall 2009 and completed a year in the program in spring 2010. It also describes their family backgrounds and the classrooms and programs that serve them. Data are drawn from the 2009 cohort of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), a…
Descriptors: Credentials, Preschool Children, Outcomes of Education, Child Development
Ashburn, Elyse – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Obamamania has swept across college campuses. Students, it seems, are out campaigning, registering people to vote, singing the Democrat's praises far and wide. This article reports that a new poll of college students in four battleground states--Colorado, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania--conducted by CBS News, UWIRE, and "The…
Descriptors: College Students, Elections, Political Candidates, Political Issues
Plucker, Jonathan A.; Spradlin, Terry E.; Burroughs, Nathan A.; Hiller, Stephen C. – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2008
During the course of each calendar year since 2003, staff of the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) at Indiana University evaluates the benefits of continuing the Annual Public Opinion Survey on K-12 Education in Indiana. In 2008, the Indiana legislature determined that school corporations would no longer use property tax revenues…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Taxes, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
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Rose, Lowell C.; Gallup, Alec M.; Dugger, William E., Jr.; Starkweather, Kendall N. – Technology Teacher, 2004
The first poll in what has become a two-part series was commissioned by the International Technology Education Association (ITEA) in the spring of 2001 with the intent of finding out how Americans viewed technological literacy. Funding for this second survey was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Information Technology, Technological Literacy, Public Opinion
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Mehernoosh, Khadije; Umapathy, K. S. – International Library Review, 1979
The scope, methods, data, conclusions, and recommendations of a study examining press coverage of libraries and their services in Iran are presented, as are the views of librarians concerning such coverage or the lack of it. Tables provide totals of library-oriented items printed in Iranian dailies, weeklies, and monthlies. (FM)
Descriptors: Libraries, Library Services, Library Surveys, News Reporting
Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC. Office of Library Programs. – 1994
This pamphlet summarizes the results of a national survey funded by the U.S. Department of Education which asked Americans how they perceived the role of the public library in their lives. Those surveyed included a cross section of the national population, minority groups, and community opinion leaders. Most of those surveyed regard public…
Descriptors: Library Research, Library Role, Library Services, National Surveys
Plucker, Jonathan A.; Chamberlin, Molly A.; Zapf, Jason S.; Simmons, Ada B. – Center for Evaluation and Education Policy, Indiana University, 2004
The purposes of the 2003 Public Opinion Survey on Education in Indiana are to serve as a standardized approach for reliable measurement of public opinion, to allow for reliable comparisons to results of similar survey research projects, and to provide a research methodology that facilitates replication in the future and comparisons of results…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Benchmarking, Teacher Effectiveness, School Choice
Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, 2006
Valencia, Perez & Echeveste (VPE) and the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) designed a survey to capture Latino adults' opinions about the benefits, importance, and costs associated with enrolling children in pre-kindergarten programs. The objective of the survey was to gauge support for government-subsidized pre-kindergarten programs among…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Public Support, Kindergarten, Preschool Evaluation
Afterschool Alliance, Washington, DC. – 2000
This report summarizes key findings from a 2000 nationwide poll regarding support and demand for after-school programs. Participating in the poll were 800 adults over age 18 who are registered to vote. The findings included the following: (1) 92 percent of respondents agreed that there should be an organized activity/place for children and teens…
Descriptors: Adolescents, After School Programs, Children, Educational Attitudes
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Desrochers, Donna M. – 1999
This document profiles opinions on education quality in 55 of the largest cities in the United States. The findings were drawn from a survey analyzed by the Educational Testing Service in which parents were asked their opinions on the public elementary schools in their neighborhood, their views on crime and neighborhood choice, and whether…
Descriptors: Crime, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Attitudes
Gustafson, Glenn E. – Spectrum, 1987
Using data from the "Gallup Polls of the the Public's Attitude Toward Education," this study examines how certain socioeconomic and demographic characteristics (parent/nonparent, education level, age, gender, city size, religious preference, and geographic region) relate to a community's assessment of public school education. Includes…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Opinions, Public Support
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 1996
This report, the third in a series of four, reflects MetLife's continued efforts to bring insight and understanding to current issues in education that affect the nation's public schools. The survey sought student information on topics related to values and principles of right and wrong from the perspective of public school students in middle and…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools, Student Attitudes
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