This week, at the Education Nation Summit, the Center for Education Reform (CER) released a nationwide poll demonstrating that Americans increasingly support more accountability for students and schools, and more power for parents.

• The role of parents in education
  46% of adults say that parents need more say over where their child goes to school.
• Choice related reforms
  72% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the term “parent choice.”
  74% have a favorable opinion of the term “school choice.”
  Less than 20% have a negative view of these terms.
• Public school accountability
  62% of respondents are in favor of linking pay to students performance.
  86% demonstrating belief that school systems should have the ability to fire poorly performing teachers.
• Better methods of meeting the needs of individual students
  Only 24% of adults give state legislatures “excellent” (4%) or “good” (20%) marks for their job performance on school issues.
• Improving the incorporation of innovation and technology
  70% of those favoring charter schools showed favorability towards “blended learning.”
  Over 60% of men and women supported “blended learning.”

The Pollster who conducted the survey for CER, Kellyanne Conway, of the polling company inc./ WomanTrend, said “Americans continue to place high value on choice, accountability and innovation in education. They believe new technologies should complement traditional learning, and support alternatives to conventional schooling. Even those without school-age children – now a large majority of Americans – view themselves as stakeholders, unafraid to aim higher for America’s children.”

Click here to read the poll’s summary. 

What do you think about the results? Are most American embracing education reform?
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