In both polls, parents answered questions about the impact of the pandemic on their children, academically and socially, and about their schools' performance during this time. The nationally representative poll of 1,007 parents of school-aged children follows up on a similar survey NPR and Ipsos conducted about a year ago. By wide margins – and regardless of their political affiliation – parents express satisfaction with their children's schools and what is being taught in them. That's according to a new national poll by NPR and Ipsos.
Math textbooks axed for their treatment of race a viral Twitter account directing ire at LGBTQ teachers a state law forbidding classroom discussion of sexual identity in younger grades a board book for babies targeted as 'pornographic.' Lately it seems there's a new controversy erupting every day over how race, gender or history are tackled in public school classrooms.īut for most parents, these concerns seem to be far from top of mind.
