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What Do Adults Know about Public Education?
- Source :
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Phi Delta Kappan . 2024 106(1):8-14. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Adults' beliefs and knowledge about the state of the U.S. education system drive decisions about policy, funding, program adoption, student participation in programs, and the selection of decision makers to elected positions. Amie Rapaport and Anna Rosefsky Saavedra share national survey data showing that U.S. adults have little knowledge about what is being taught in schools, express neutrality about belief systems undergirding education policy, and report experiences misaligned with hard-data trends on student academic progress in recent years. With adults reporting they learn about issues crucial to our education system mainly from "personal experience," better information has the potential to improve U.S. education.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0031-7217 and 1940-6487
- Volume :
- 106
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Phi Delta Kappan
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ1438477
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Descriptive
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241282189