WHAT WE’RE READING
Jocelyn Gecker shares Gallup’s new polling results, which show a sharp rise in dissatisfaction among U.S. adults. Once again, parents tend to think more highly of their own kids’ schools than the system as a whole:
About two-thirds of parents with school-age children say they are satisfied with their child’s education, which is also a low point in the trend—parents haven’t had a similarly discontented view since 2013—but double the 32 percent satisfaction with U.S. education among adults overall.
Gallup’s Megan Brenan has the full details, including a chart showing how those on the left and right are coming toward consensus…on how dissatisfied they are with the quality of the nation’s schools.
EXTRA CREDIT:
Daniel Buck, “Three Policy Avenues to Help Public Schools Flourish”
Meredith Coffey, “What Massachusetts’s portrait of a learner gets right (and New York’s doesn’t)”
Ray Domanico, “Traditional Schools Are Losing Their Grip on K–12 Education”
Ingrid Jacques, “Will Democrats delay Trump’s school choice tax credit?”
Bruno V. Manno, “Without Part-Time Jobs or School Clubs, Teens Miss Out on Basic Life Skills”
Michael McShane, “Enrollment Down, Funding Up”
Morgan Scott Polikoff and Rachel Anderson, “How State Board Leaders Can Build Next-Generation Accountability”
Jed Wallace, “Of Alphas and Betas and Getting the Charter School Recipe Right”
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