Recent Work
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Adults Know Little About Education Policy and Practice – This Should Worry Us.
Improving communication about what students are learning and how they are progressing is critical to the future of public education.
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How Schools Communicate Can Meaningfully Change Parent Opinions
Over the last two school years our Understanding America Study survey of parents with K-12 children in their household helped to shed light on the huge disparities within and across children’s access to, and preferences for, in-person learning.
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While Politicians Fight Over Civic Education, Most Parents and Adults Agree on the Subject
Between mid-April and the end of May 2021, USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research asked 1,510 K-12 parents from the nationally representative Understanding America Study (UAS)Â how important they feel it is for students to learn about civics education topics in school.
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Evidence of COVID-19’s Impact on K-12 Education Points to Critical Areas of Intervention
Survey data shows remote learners are suffering from lower-quality learning, less quantity and quality of interactions with teachers, and less social interaction with peers.
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Parents’ Perspectives on the Effects of COVID-19 on K-12 Education, April-July 2020
Three-quarters of responding parents support or strongly support schools offering both remote and in-person instruction.
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