Saturday, September 08, 2007

NY Survey Reveals Student Attitudes, Parental Goals and Teacher Mistrust

Nearly half of middle and high school students surveyed in New York City public schools say that students who get good grades are not respected. Nearly a quarter of parents call smaller class sizes the chief improvement they seek. More than a third of teachers say they do not trust their principals.

Those were some of the findings of a $2 million survey released yesterday by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, to which 587,000 out of 1.8 million parents, teachers and middle and high school students responded, providing a trove of information on attitudes toward the schools.

Mr. Bloomberg heralded the survey, which was conducted last spring as part of an effort to grade all schools A through F, as an invaluable tool, likening it to the Police Department’s vaunted crime-tracking system. He called it “the most successful effort in the history of American education to collect a community’s views about public schools.” ...

This from the New York Times.

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