Reform Agenda Gains Strength

Autor/inn/en	Howell, William; West, Martin; Peterson, Paul E.
Titel	Reform Agenda Gains Strength
Quelle	In: Education Next, 13 (2013) 1, S.8-19 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	School Choice; Student Attitudes; Educational Change; Public Support; Interviews; Politics of Education; Hispanic Americans; African Americans; Scores; Accountability; Teachers; Unions; Parents; Parent Attitudes; Surveys + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Choice of school; Schulwahl; Schülerverhalten; Bildungsreform; Öffentliche Förderung; Öffentliche Trägerschaft; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Afroamerikaner; Verantwortung; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Eltern; Elternverhalten; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung
Abstract	In this paper the authors identify some of the key findings from the sixth annual "Education Next"-PEPG Survey, a nationally representative sample of U.S. citizens interviewed during April and May of 2012. Highlights include: (1) the Republican tilt of the education views of independents; (2) the especially high marks that Hispanics give their public schools; (3) strong support among the general public for using test-score information to hold teachers accountable; (4) lower confidence in teachers than has previously been reported; (5) the public's (and teachers') growing uneasiness with teachers unions; (6) the shaky foundations of public support for increased spending; and (7) majority support for a broad range of school choice initiatives. In addition to the views of the public as a whole, in this year's survey special attention is paid to Hispanics, African Americans, parents, and teachers, all of whom were oversampled in order to obtain a sufficient number of observations. And in an effort to assess the sensitivity of respondents' opinions to information and question wording, the authors embedded in this survey, as they have done in previous ones, various experiments.(Contains 11 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10