The School Curriculum
Education, especially news about student achievement and what’s happening in classrooms, continues to hold high interest among community members in Oregon and nationally. The public, including parents, teachers and students, believes that setting standards and enforcing them promotes learning, according to Public Agenda in its “Where We Are Now” report of survey research about schools conducted over the past decade. However, public opinion on what those standards should be and how to enforce them is divided, according to the Public Agenda report and the 2004 36th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public’s Attitudes toward the Public Schools.*
* Where We Are Now: 12 Things You Need to Know about
Public Opinion and Public
Schools, 2003, Public Agenda, 6 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016; telephone 212-686-6610; or available in PDF format at
www.publicagenda.org.
36th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public’s
Attitudes toward the Public Schools, 2004, Phi Delta Kappa Inter-national, Bloomington, IN,
www.pdkintl.org.
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