Or maybe the graduate student was stunned that a professor would ask him such an blatantly unprofessional question, and didn't know how to react because it's uncomfortable to tell a person who has power over your career to mind his own goddamned business.
Great coverage of our new national survey in the NYT (www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/u...www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...)
Americans are deeply divided on whether schools should teach about gender identity, two polls found. But there was broader support for teaching about race.
"Partisan gaps—the average differences in public opinion between Democrats and Republicans—have widened on many education issues."
All this and so much more in the report - please take a look, share, and discuss! And reach out to me if you're interested in delving deeper.
6) But people really have mixed views about how schools should handle parents' disagreements about teaching potentially contentious issues.
5) There is pretty strong agreement about what are reasonable responses for a parent when they disagree with the content of a lesson, and a big spread across options. The biggest split is on asking the teacher to change the lesson.
3) When put head to head, Americans strongly support spending money to improve local public schools as opposed to giving money to low-income families to go to private schools (the levels of support here surprised me!).
2) Partisan disagreement is slightly less on race-related scenarios, but still there are large partisan gaps, especially on items emphasizing CURRENT-DAY inequalities. Republicans are more comfortable with discussing racism in the past than the present.
