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ERIC Number: ED616274
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 44
Abstractor: As Provided
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Public Opinion, Attitude Stability, and Education Policy. Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series. PEPG 21-04
Houston, David M.; Henderson, Michael B.; Peterson, Paul E.; West, Martin R.
Program on Education Policy and Governance
Do Americans hold a consistent set of opinions about their public schools and how to improve them? From 2013 to 2018, over 5,000 unique respondents participated in more than one consecutive iteration of the annual, nationally representative "Education Next" poll, offering an opportunity to examine individual-level attitude stability on education policy issues over a six-year period. The proportion of participants who provide the same response to the same question over multiple consecutive years greatly exceeds the amount expected to occur by chance alone. We also find that teachers offer more consistent responses than their non-teaching peers. By contrast, we do not observe similar differences in attitude stability between parents of school-age children and their counterparts without children.
Program on Education Policy and Governance. Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Taubman 304, Cambridge, MA 02138. Tel: 617-495-7976; Fax: 617-496-4428; e-mail: pepg@fas.harvard.edu; Web site: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/taubman/programs-research/pepg
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Harvard University, Program on Education Policy and Governance
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