Focus Group Report: Educators, Parents, and Students on Education and Schools
Tuesday, September 12, 2023Focus groups among public educators, parents, and high school students discussing the current state of education.
Our research below provides messaging guidance for progressives to win key policy debates.
Focus groups among public educators, parents, and high school students discussing the current state of education.
Polling data on Americans’ latest perceptions of education policy including which party they trust on education and opinions on proposed and recently enacted education policies.
Americans want children to learn the things they need to in order to be successful in life; strongly oppose proposals to ban books and AP African American history
Progressive arguments in support of student debt cancellation prevail by double-digit margins over conservative opposition
Nearly two in three Americans are “very concerned” by arguments that book bans are censoring history and preventing students from succeeding.
Rising costs and circumstantial factors like the pandemic are seen as the best reasons to cancel at least some student loan debt.
Black Americans give Harris an “incomplete” grade and want to see more from her, and want teaching of Black history in classrooms normalized.
President Biden and the Democratic Party are seen as more trusted than the Republican Party on a wide range of issues related to education.