READY, WILLING AND ABLE?
Kansas City Parents Talk About How to Improve Schools and What They Can Do to Help
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2013
This report offers school and district education leaders specific ideas for engaging parents across the spectrum.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
WILL IT BE ON THE TEST?
A Closer Look at How Leaders and Parents Think About Accountability in the Public Schools
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2013
New research from the Kettering Foundation and Public Agenda suggests that there are important differences between the way most leaders and most parents define and think about accountability in public education.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
BOOSTING PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
Media Type: SLIDESHOW / YEAR: 2012
Large numbers of parents are unfamiliar with what their children should be learning and don’t want them to be further challenged, according to a Public Agenda nationwide survey of children enrolled in public schools.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Children & Families
COMBINED THEMES AND RECOMMENDATIONS FROM FIVE WARDS
Community Conversations on Education in DC
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
This report, a companion to "Combined Themes and Recommendations from 5 Wards," summarizes the main themes and recommendations from an engagement initiative in Washington, DC, in summer 2012.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
COMMUNITY RESPONSES TO SCHOOL REFORM IN CHICAGO
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
How can education leaders and reformers best engage, communicate and work with community stakeholders to ensure the best outcomes for Chicago's children?
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION
How Principals, Teachers, Students and Parents from Ohio's High-Achieving, High-Poverty Schools Explain Their Success
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
In spite of high poverty, tight budgets, sub-optimal parent participation and ill preparation, there are schools that produce extraordinary students and remarkable stories of success.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Children & Families
HIRING AND HIGHER ED
In new research, U.S.business leaders say higher ed's resistance to change is widening skills gap, putting economic future at risk
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
A new report from Public Agenda suggests that business leaders fear that skyrocketing tuition and a growing skills gap could have serious consequences for the nation's economic future.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education, Workforce, Jobs & Economy
STUDENT VOICES ON THE HIGHER EDUCATION PATHWAY
Preliminary Insights & Stakeholder Engagement Considerations
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
With 44% of all U.S. undergraduates attending community colleges, efforts to improve student success at these institutions continue to capture the national policy spotlight.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
THE INVISIBLE DREAM
Creating a New Conversation About the American Dream
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
What is the American Dream? What do we need to help more Americans achieve it? Does the way we talk and think about the Dream hinder our ability to achieve it?
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Issue Area(s): Jobs & Economy, Health Care, Children & Families
WARD-LEVEL SUMMARY REPORT
Community Conversations on Education in DC
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
This report, a companion to "Ward-Level Summary Report," summarizes the main themes and recommendations from an engagement initiative in Washington, DC, in summer 2012.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
CAN I GET A LITTLE ADVICE HERE?
How an Overstretched High School Guidance System Is Undermining Students' College Aspirations
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
Can I Get A Little Advice Here?, the second of Public Agenda's studies on college completion, asks young Americans how much help they received from the high school guidance system.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
CUTTING EDGE SERIES NO 1
Engaging Adjunct and Full-Time Faculty in Student Success Innovation
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
This report lays out core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty in changing institutions and closing student achievement gaps.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
CUTTING EDGE SERIES NO 2
Scaling Community College Interventions
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
In “Scaling Community College Interventions,” we provide an overview of the most common barriers, principles to help take initiatives to scale, and a checklist of critical questions.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
CUTTING EDGE SERIES NO 3
Building Institutional Capacity For Data-Informed Decision Making
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
"Building Institutional Capacity for Data-Informed Decision Making" is the latest from the Cutting Edge series of reports produced for Achieving the Dream.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
DON'T COUNT US OUT
How an Overreliance on Accountability Could Undermine the Public's Confidence in Schools, Business, Government & More
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
New research presents startling evidence that the public and leaders hold vastly different ideas about what it even means to be accountable.
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Issue Area(s): Voting & Government, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
ENGAGING ADJUNCT AND FULL-TIME FACULTY IN STUDENT SUCCESS INNOVATION
Media Type: SLIDESHOW / YEAR: 2011
This report lays out core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty in changing institutions and closing student achievement gaps.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION
How Young Americans Who Don't Finish College See Their Chances for Success
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
The third in a series of surveys of young people on college completion, and their attitudes toward higher education.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
STILL ON THE SIDELINES
A Public Agenda report for the Lumina Foundation
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
A new report from Public Agenda adds an important new voice to the conversation about higher education reform.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
WHAT'S TRUST GOT TO DO WITH IT?
A Communications and Engagement Guide for School Leaders Tackling the Problem of Persistently Failing Schools
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
Public Agenda's latest report offers a critical resource for leaders seeking to transform the nation's persistently failing schools.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Children & Families
WITH THEIR WHOLE LIVES AHEAD OF THEM
Myths & Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2011
Most young adults who started college but didn't finish left because they needed to work more to make ends meet.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
A TIME TO LEARN, A TIME TO GROW
California Parents Talk About Summertime And Summer Programs
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2010
A Public Agenda survey of over 1,200 parents in California, with interviews conducted in English and Spanish, finds a gap between what parents want for their children during the summer and the activities in which their children were able to participate.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Children & Families
ARE WE BEGINNING TO SEE THE LIGHT?
Five Key Trends in Public Opinion, on Science, Technology, Engineering & Math Education in Public Schools
Media Type: SLIDESHOW / YEAR: 2010
Americans are convinced that math and science skills are crucial for the future, according to "Are We Beginning To See The Light?", a Public Agenda survey.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Higher Education, Science & Society
BULLYING IN SCHOOLS - FULL SURVEY RESULTS
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2010
The survey was conducted as part of the Princeton Survey Research International (PSRAI) April omnibus conducted from April 8 - April 11, 2010, and 1,001 adults were interviewed.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Children & Families
CHANGING THE CONVERSATION ABOUT PRODUCTIVITY
Strategies for Engaging Faculty and Institutional Leaders
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2010
This report builds on and extends Public Agenda's ongoing research on the attitudes of various stakeholder groups toward higher education reform.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
CONFIDENCE IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY INDEX: VOLUME 7, SPRING 2010
Americans Less Anxious About U.S. Foreign Policy Now than in Past Four Years
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2010
Americans are less anxious about foreign affairs than they've been for the past four years, according to the Spring 2010 edition of the Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index.
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Issue Area(s): Foreign Policy
RETAINING TEACHER TALENT
Convergence and Contradictions in Teachers' Perceptions of Policy Reform Ideas
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2010
Research by Public Agenda and Learning Point Associates suggests that what teachers think are good indicators of effectiveness—and what they think will make them more effective—are not always aligned with current priorities in education policy.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
SLIDESHOW: THE BUCK STOPS WHERE?
What D.C. Influencers and the Public Say about the National Debt
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2010
The November 2010 update of Public Agenda's public opinion surveys on this issue, is Part II in our series of reports designed to examine attitudes among Beltway "movers and shakers" on the nation's fiscal problems.
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Issue Area(s): Jobs & Economy, Federal Budget
SLIP SLIDING AWAY SURVEY RESULTS
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2010
Despite signs of recovery from the "Great Recession," significant numbers of Americans find themselves living lives of economic struggle, and worry about whether they'll keep a middle-class life in the long term.
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Issue Area(s): Jobs & Economy, Federal Budget
SQUEEZE PLAY (2010)
Continued Public Anxiety on Cost, Harsher Judgements on How Colleges are Run
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2010
Are college and universities doing all they can to keep costs under control?
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
SURVEY RESULTS: BULLYING
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2010
Nearly three-quarters of Americans consider bullying and harassment a serious problem in their local public schools according to an April 2010 Public Agenda survey.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Children & Families