Make Teaching More Professional: The 47th Annual PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools

Autor/in	Starr, Joshua P.
Titel	Make Teaching More Professional: The 47th Annual PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes toward the Public Schools
Quelle	In: Phi Delta Kappan, 97 (2015) 2, (6 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0031-7217
DOI	10.1177/0031721715610092
Schlagwörter	Public Schools; Public Opinion; Annual Reports; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators; Professional Identity; Teacher Qualifications; Teacher Salaries; Tenure; Parent Teacher Cooperation; Trust (Psychology); Educational Attitudes; Educational Practices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Öffentliche Meinung; Annual report; Tätigkeitsbericht; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Lehrqualifikation; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Parent teacher relation; Parent-teacher cooperation; Parent-teacher relation; Parent-teacher relationship; Parent teacher relationship; Eltern-Lehrer-Beziehung; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Bildungspraxis
Abstract	Americans want higher professional requirements for teachers and believe teacher pay is too low, but they don't like tenure, according to the newest PDK/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools. Public school parents trust and have confidence in the nation's teachers, and they said communicating with their child's teacher is easy. In a separate opinion piece, PDK CEO Joshua P. Starr said the poll shows that the country uniformly wants highly qualified professionals teaching in our public schools. With this kind of consensus, one would imagine that we, as a nation, would be able to organize around a bold plan to ensure that we have a well-qualified professional in every classroom. But it's not clear that current state and district polices and practices are improving the teaching profession. How do we design, develop, support--and hold accountable--the absolute best teachers. In the past, the PDK/Gallup poll was done exclusively by telephone. This year, we used a multi-mode design that employed a telephone poll of 1,000 adults and an online survey of 3,499 adults. This new survey allowed us to report about specific subgroups of the population, including public school parents, political party memberships, and black, Hispanic, and white respondents. [This article includes a sidebar by Joshua P. Starr entitled "High Qualified Teachers Rate High with the Public."] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01