WALKING A MILE: A FIRST STEP TOWARD MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING
A Qualitative Study Exploring How Indians and Non-Indians Think About Each Other
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2007
This study explores the attitudes of American Indians and non-Indians about Indians' heritage, historical roles, relationships and contributions to society, as well as their views about each other.
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Issue Area(s): Race
AMERICANS DELIBERATE OUR NATION'S FINANCES AND FUTURE
It's Not About Taxes - It's About Trust
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2006
Two public opinion research studies conclude that the public has little difficulty understanding the magnitude of the fiscal challenge facing the nation.
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Issue Area(s): Jobs & Economy, Federal Budget
CONFIDENCE IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY INDEX: VOLUME 2 WINTER 2006
Americans Wary of Creating Democracies Abroad
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2006
The second edition of the Public Agenda Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index finds new concerns pushing their way into public consciousness even as worries identified in the first edition persist.
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Issue Area(s): Foreign Policy
CONFIDENCE IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY INDEX: VOLUME 3 SPRING 2006
Anxious Public Sees Growing Dangers, Few Solutions
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2006
Americans see a world of growing dangers, few solutions and little in U.S. foreign policy that seems to be working, according to the latest Public Agenda Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index.
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Issue Area(s): Foreign Policy
IT'S TIME TO PAY OUR BILLS
America's Perspective on the National Debt & How Leaders Can Use the Public's Ideas to Addres the Country's Long-Term Budget Challenges
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2006
This report analyzes public thinking about the U.S. government's fiscal future and providing political leaders with six specific, publicly supported steps so that real federal budget reform could take place.
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Issue Area(s): Jobs & Economy, Federal Budget
LONG OVERDUE
A Fresh Look at Public and Leadership Attitudes about Libraries in the 21st Century
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2006
In this survey of the public, we find Americans prize public library service and see libraries as potential solutions to many communities' most pressing problems.
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Issue Area(s): Other
REALITY CHECK 2006, ISSUE NO. 1
Are Parents and Students Ready for More Math and Science?
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2006
The first in a series of Reality Check reports finds that parents and students do not share the concern of business and government leaders about flagging math and science skills.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Science & Society
REALITY CHECK 2006, ISSUE NO. 2
How Black and Hispanic Families Rate Their Schools
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2006
The second in a series of Reality Check reports finds that black and Hispanic students are more likely than their white counterparts to report "very serious" problems in their schools on both academic and social dimensions.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Race
REALITY CHECK 2006, ISSUE NO. 3
Is Support for Standards and Testing Fading?
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2006
The third in our series of Reality Check reports finds that the public now sees reforms in educational standards as "necessary, but not sufficient."
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
REALITY CHECK 2006, ISSUE NO. 4
The Insiders: How Principals & Superintendents See Public Education Today
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2006
The fourth in a series of Reality Check reports finds that most public school superintendents -– and principals to a lesser extent -– think local schools are already in pretty good shape.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
CONFIDENCE IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY INDEX: VOLUME 1 SUMMER 2005
Americans Perplexed and Anxious About Relations with Muslim World According to First Confidence Index
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2005
The inaugural edition of the Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index finds the public's concerns are dominated by issues that all lead back to the central theme of Islam and the West.
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Issue Area(s): Foreign Policy
RELIGION IN PUBLIC LIFE, 2000 - 2004
Survey Questionnaire
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2005
This survey, a follow-up to For Goodness' Sake, compares how Americans' views of religion in public life have changed since 2000.
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Issue Area(s): Religion
THE CHARITABLE IMPULSE
Those Who Give to Charities and Those Who Run Them Talk about What's Needed to Keep the Public's Trust
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2005
Public Agenda's research set out to shed light on some important questions.
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Issue Area(s): Other
THE SCIENCE OF AGING GRACEFULLY
Scientists and the Public Talk about Aging Research
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2005
This study examines the views of scientists who study aging and compares them to the broader public.
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Issue Area(s): Health Care, Science & Society
A FEW BAD APPLES?
An Exploratory Look at What Typical Americans Think About Business Ethics Today
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2004
In focus groups conducted in collaboration with The Kettering Foundation, Public Agenda found that citizens define business ethics more broadly than executives do.
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Issue Area(s): Workforce, Jobs & Economy
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY
Listening to What Kids and Parents Really Want from Out-of-School Time
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2004
In this survey of teens and parents, Public Agenda found the vast majority of students regularly participate in organized activities in their out-of-school time.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Children & Families, Race
CHANGING THE CONVERSATION ON EDUCATION IN CONNECTICUT
A Report on the Connecticut Community Conversations Project
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2004
A report on ten years of public engagement on public education topics in over 75 communities across Connecticut.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
PUBLIC ATTITUDES ON HIGHER EDUCATION
A Trend Analysis, 1993 to 2003
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2004
This analysis finds that parents of high school students are increasingly worried about access to college.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education, Race
TEACHING INTERRUPTED
Do Discipline Policies in Today's Public Schools Foster the Common Good?
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2004
Teachers and parents say too many students are losing critical opportunities for learning because of the behavior of a few persistent classroom troublemakers.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
NOW THAT I'M HERE
What Americas Immigrants Have to Say about Life in the U.S. Today
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2003
A survey of immigrants finds an overwhelming majority committed to working hard and staying off government assistance.
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Issue Area(s): Immigration, Race
PUSH COMES TO SHOVE
Passengers and Travel Workers Call Rudeness a Real Problem
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2003
An informal canvass of travel industry workers and an online poll of passengers together suggest that stressful travel conditions, a general decline in values and parents who don't control their children are sore spots for Americans on the move.
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Issue Area(s): Other
ROLLING UP THEIR SLEEVES
Superintendents & Principals Talk About What's Needed to Fix Public Schools
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2003
Public school superintendents and principals say their biggest headaches are funding and the time it takes to comply with a blizzard of local, state and federal mandates.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
STAND BY ME
What Teachers Really Think about Unions, Merit Pay & Other Professional Matters
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2003
Public school teachers say they love their work and are confident in their ability to reach most students.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
WHERE WE ARE NOW
12 Things You Need to Know about Public Opinion & Public Schools
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2003
A digest of a decade of Public Agenda opinion research on public education.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
A LOT EASIER SAID THAN DONE
Parents Talk about Raising Children in Today's America
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2002
A majority of parents surveyed say American society is an inhospitable climate for raising children, where parents can never let down their guard in the face of popular culture, drugs and crime.
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Issue Area(s): Children & Families
AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCES
A Status Report on Rudeness in America
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2002
Most Americans say rudeness and disrespect are a serious problem in society and that the situation is getting worse.
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Issue Area(s): Other
KNOWING IT BY HEART
Americans Consider the Consitution and its Meaning
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2002
While most Americans admit they do not have detailed knowledge about the Constitution and Bill of Rights, they seem to have absorbed its core values of protecting the rights of all citizens.
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Issue Area(s): Civic Education, Voting & Government
MEETING THE COMPETITION
College and University Presidents, Faculty & State Legislators View the New Competitive Academic Arena
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2002
In interviews and group discussions with higher education officials and state legislators, we found a growing number say market forces and increased competition are reshaping academia.
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Issue Area(s): Higher Education
REALITY CHECK 2002
A Special Report
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2002
The fifth annual progress report on the academic standards movement finds widespread support among teachers and parents, while high school students seem to be adjusting comfortably to the new provisions.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
SIZING THINGS UP
What Parents, Teachers & Students Think About Large and Small High Schools
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2002
Parents whose children attend small high schools were more likely to praise academics and say struggling students get help, while parents whose children were in large schools reported more students falling through the cracks.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education