Issue Area: K-12 Education
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
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
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
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
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
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
RETAINING TEACHER TALENT
The View from Generation Y
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2009
The observations in this report are based on a national, random-sample survey of 890 public school teachers conducted in spring and summer 2009.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
A MATTER OF TRUST
Ten Key Insights from Recent Public Opinion Research on Attitudes About Education Among Hispanic Parents, Students and Young Adults
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2008
Public Agenda report, prepared for IBM's summit on "America's Competitiveness: Hispanic Participation in Technology Careers"
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Workforce, Jobs & Economy, Race, Science & Society
A MISSION OF THE HEART
What Does it Take to Transform a School?
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2008
What does it really take to transform a troubled school into one where students thrive?
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
OUT BEFORE THE GAME BEGINS
Hispanic Leaders Talk about What’s Needed to Bring More Hispanic Youngsters Into Science, Technology and Math Professions
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2008
This Public Agenda report is based on in-depth interviews with 19 key leaders from vastly different fields and backgrounds.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Workforce, Jobs & Economy, Race
IMPORTANT, BUT NOT FOR ME
Parents and Students in Kansas and Missouri Talk About Math, Science & Technology Education
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2007
Explores the growing consensus that unless schools do more to train young Americans with strong skills in math, science and technology, U.S. leadership in the world economy is at risk.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Jobs & Economy, Science & Society
LESSONS LEARNED SERIES: ISSUE NO. 1
They're Not Little Kids Anymore
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2007
First in the "Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans" series of reports.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
LESSONS LEARNED SERIES: ISSUE NO. 2
Working Without A Net
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2007
Second in the "Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans" series of reports.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
LESSONS LEARNED SERIES: ISSUE NO. 3
Teaching In Changing Times
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2007
Third in the "Lessons Learned: New Teachers Talk About Their Jobs, Challenges and Long-Range Plans" series of reports.
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
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
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
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
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