Who Has Confidence In U.S. Schools?

Matthew DiCarlo:

For many years, national survey and polling data have shown that Americans tend to like their own local schools, but are considerably less sanguine about the nation's education system as a whole. This somewhat paradoxical finding - in which most people seem to think the problem is with "other people's schools" - is difficult to interpret, especially since it seems to vary a bit when people are given basic information about schools, such as funding levels.

In any case, I couldn't resist taking a very quick, superficial look at how people's views of education vary by important characteristics, such as age and education. I used the General Social Survey (pooled 2006-2010), which queries respondents about their confidence in education, asking them to specify whether they have "hardly any," "only some" or "a great deal" of confidence in the system.*

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 25, 2012 1:22 AM
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