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To: MRE who wrote ()8/28/1997 11:26:00 AM
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Wednesday August 27 9:57 AM EDT

Americans Want A Computer In Every Classroom - Poll

WASHINGTON - Americans favor a computer in every classroom, national standards for measuring academic performance and getting rid of troublemakers" to improve public schools, a poll said Tuesday.

The Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll showed 81 percent of respondents saw a computer in each classroom as improving the achievement of students in public schools a great deal or quite a lot."

Establishing national standards for measuring academic performance was seen by 77 percent as likely to improve student achievement, 75 percent said moving persistent troublemakers" to alternative schools would help and 73 percent said allowing families to choose a public school would also greatly improve achievement.

Proposals to lengthen the school year and school day received much less support. Of the respondents, 38 percent said a longer school year would improve achievement a great deal and 25 percent said lengthening the school day would.

Reasons given for why some public schools were better than others included strong parental support and amount of money spent on the schools.

The biggest problems facing public schools in 1997 included lack of discipline and lack of financial support, both mentioned by 15 percent of the respondents. Drug use was mentioned by 14 percent and fighting/gangs/violence was mentioned by 12 percent.

The poll covered 1,517 adults including 1,017 parents of public school children. The margin of error was about 3 percent.
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