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A member of the PDK International family of associations. Growing and connecting leaders in education. Programs & Resources. Scholarships, grants, and fellowships. The PDK Family of Associations offers programs and resources that engage stakeholders and practitioners in education from preservice teachers in Educators Rising, through the honor society of the university years with Pi Lambda Theta (PLT), and on through the current and emeritus education professionals with PDK International. Programs and res...
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PDK Poll - Expert Joshua P. Starr
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Download 2016 poll report. Expert Joshua P. Starr. Navigating the American divide. By Joshua P. Starr. Americans don’t agree on the purpose of public education, but they like their local schools, especially when they believe educators listen to their concerns. Reformers at all levels have contributed to the disruption that’s created in communities by efforts to close failing schools. To ensure a more cohesive vision of education, school leaders must address the significant divide on this issue. Since mos...
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PDK Poll - Parents grade the schools
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Download 2016 poll report. Parents grade the schools. Two-thirds of public school parents give their child’s school an A (26%) or B (41%) grade, far better than Americans overall grade their local public schools or the schools nationally. Still, there is cause for concern: One-third of these parents assign their child’s school a lower grade, including 23% a C, 5% a D, and 5% a failing grade. Other factors associated with the school-parent relationship also produce large distinctions in school grades:.
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PDK Poll - Parents & communication
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Download 2016 poll report. Parents & communication. Given its importance in predicting school grades, educators will want to understand more about how parents feel about communication and collaboration with their child’s school. Results show ample room for improvement. On the plus side, 60% of parents are satisfied with their child’s school’s efforts to keep them informed, including 32% who say they’re extremely satisfied. Similarly, just 41% report that their child’s school is extremely or very interest...
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PDK Poll - The purpose of education
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Download 2016 poll report. The purpose of education. Fewer than half of Americans (45%) view the main goal of public education as preparing students academically; the rest split between a focus on preparing students for work (25%) or preparing them to be good citizens (26%). These differing priorities relate to how Americans rate their local public schools. These different priorities for public schooling also are correlated with ideology and political partisanship. Share This Story, Choose Your Platform!
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PDK Poll - Standards & student learning
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Download 2016 poll report. Standards & student learning. Just more than half of public school parents (56%) say recent changes in educational standards have changed what’s being taught in their child’s classroom, while about one-third (31%) say new standards have not influenced what’s being taught. (Most of the rest, 13%, express no opinion.). Among those who say their child’s school has made a change, reviews are mixed:. In recent years, many states have adopted a new set of educational standards for wh...
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PDK Poll - Standards for learning
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Download 2016 poll report. Fewer than half of Americans (46%) say the educational standards in the public schools in their community are about right, while nearly as many (43%) say expectations for students are too low. Few (7%) think standards are too high. Beyond expectations is the question of relevance. Fewer than three in 10 adults (27%) think educational standards effectively address the things students need to succeed in their adult lives, including just 9% who think they do this extremely well.
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PDK Poll - School improvement priorities
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Download 2016 poll report. Americans chose between a variety of possible strategies for improving the public schools. Among the results:. Support for offering more career-technical or skills-based classes (68%) far exceeds preference for more honors or advanced academic classes (21%),. Including 51% who strongly prefer more vocational classes. Presented with these competing choices, a similar margin prefers raising teachers’ salaries (50%) to hiring more teachers (40%). Nearly three-quarters of those wit...
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PDK Poll - Improving struggling schools
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Download 2016 poll report. Americans overwhelmingly prefer trying to improve failing public schools than closing them; the 70-point margin on this question is the largest of any in the survey. That said, those who give their local public schools failing grades are twice as likely as those who give them an A to say closing schools would be more appropriate, 26% to 13%. This view peaks among those who give their local schools an F grade (78%) and among strong conservatives (70%). It’s also higher among...
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