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Parent Poll Reveals Support for School COVID-Safety Measures Despite Vaccine Hesitancy, Partisan Polarization: Private-School Parents Report Less Learning Loss, Greater Satisfaction with Pandemic Schooling
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Henderson, Michael B.; Houston, David M.; Peterson, Paul E.; West, Martin R. – Education Next, 2022
The 15th annual "Education Next" survey, conducted in June 2021, yields a host of specific results that reveal one large fact about the current state of public opinion on American education: The public is cautious--extremely cautious. In the presence of a still-circulating COVID-19 virus, a large percentage of parents and the broader…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Safety, Immunization Programs
What American Families Experienced When COVID-19 Closed Their Schools
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Henderson, Michael B.; Houston, David; Peterson, Paul E.; West, Martin R. – Education Next, 2021
The 2020 Education Next Survey reveals a paradox related to what American parents think about the quality of the instruction their children received after schools closed their doors in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The parents of a substantial majority of school-aged children--71%--think their kids learned less than they would have in school.…
Descriptors: Experience, School Closing, COVID-19, Pandemics
Pandemic Parent Survey Finds Perverse Pattern: Students Are More Likely to Be Attending School in Person Where COVID Is Spreading More Rapidly: Majority of Students Receiving Fully Remote Instruction; Private-School Students More Likely to Be in Person Full Time
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Henderson, Michael B.; Peterson, Paul E.; West, Martin R. – Education Next, 2021
President Joe Biden has made reopening a majority of K-8 schools for in-person instruction a priority for his administration's first 100 days, with the goal of getting more American students safely back into the classroom. Yet neither information gathered so far by researchers, nor data reported by the federal government and the states, can say…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, In Person Learning, Elementary Secondary Education