How Concerned Are Parents About Students Missing School?
Though learning loss has been a major point of discussion post-pandemic, an equally important topic is chronic absenteeism. Almost 30% of students were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year, meaning they missed 10%, or 18 days, of the year. There were only slight improvements for 2022-23, according to preliminary data as of last fall. […]
How Do Highly Educated Voters Vote?
One observation that has become commonplace in recent years when talking about changing partisan trends is that the Democratic Party is becoming the party of educated voters, while voters with less education are increasingly voting Republican. How true is this analysis? To answer this question, we took a look at data from the most recent […]
Roll Call: Biden’s ‘Historic’ Results Aren’t What He Thinks
In today’s Roll Call, the Winston Group’s David Winston again tackles the credibility of the president’s economic messaging with voters. The explanation for Biden’s dilemma isn’t complicated. Voters understand when and why the inflation crisis happened. On March 12, 2021, with all the fanfare of a royal progress, Biden and Hill Democrats rushed to the […]
Does Education Matter in Views Of The Economy?
One of the challenges President Biden is facing heading into the November elections is convincing voters that the economy is going well. As David wrote in a recent column for Roll Call, many voters don’t buy the economic messaging coming from Biden and the White House. Some, like economist Paul Krugman, dismiss this reaction as […]
Roll Call: Biden’s State of the Union was beyond belief. Just ask voters
In today’s Roll Call, the Winston Group’s David Winston discusses voter reaction to President Biden’s State of the Union address. Some of the media, working off the same script, seemed to love Biden’s SOTU, praising the president’s atypical delivery, calling him feisty and fiery at every turn. But there is a fine line between feisty […]
Do Voters Connect Learning Loss and Grade Inflation?
Inspired by the headlines about elite colleges bringing back their standardized testing requirements (with Brown joining the list last week) we have been focused on issues related to tests and grade inflation. This week, we look at grade inflation through a slightly different lens, analyzing the extent to which voters connect grade inflation with pandemic-related […]
Roll Call: Trump’s next test: Go beyond the base
In today’s Roll Call, the Winston Group’s David Winston writes about the Supreme Court’s recent decision to overrule the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Donald Trump from the state’s primary ballot, and some challenges from Trump going forward. The exit polls also raised some important challenges for the Trump campaign going forward. The most obvious […]
How Widespread Is Grade Inflation?
A topic we have been keeping a close eye on in the last several months is standardized tests in college admissions. A key reason many of the colleges chose to reinstate the testing requirement is that test scores tend to be better predictors of academic success than grades alone. It is likely that this stronger […]
A Look At The Latest PISA Results
The results from the 2022 PISA tests, released last month, showed that while US scores generally held steady from 2018 in reading and science literacy, the US score in math literacy dropped 13 points. In 2018, students scored a 478 on the math literacy test; in 2022, that score fell to 465. The highest scoring […]
A Look At Past PISA Results
Tomorrow morning, the results from the latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) will be released. PISA measures the literacy of 15-year-olds in science, math, and reading every three years. Data is reported as a score for each country and as the share of students reaching one of six proficiency levels, with one being the […]