Public Agenda Foundation Poll: Playing Their Parts--Parental Involvement in Public Schools Survey
Creators: name: Kraft Foods
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2013

description: Concerns for children (1); child's needed improvement (6); conference with parents/principal/teachers before child started at current school (2); parent involvement (50); attitude of parents and teachers towards each other (2); more important for parent to teach children (2); ability to teach children from different backgrounds adequately (5); effect of working mothers on children's school years (1); stay-at-home moms (1); knowledge about education (5); effectiveness of child's teachers (2); supervision/control of student's behaviors in the hallways/yard by school officials (1); comfort with level of involvement in school functions (24); view of school experiences for children (11); scheduled time for schoolwork in household (1); child's distractions from schoolwork (9); schoolwork as a source of struggle/stress between parent/child (2); talking with children about school day (2); favorite period of time in child's education (1); most worrisome period of time in child's education (1); knowledge of child's teache's name (1); agree/disagree with statement (12); discussing motivation of children with teachers (3); negative experiences with teachers (3); parent-school partnership (2); effect of hard times in family on child's school work (2); level of child's aptitude/talent (1); parents doing child's homework for them (1); discussion with teachers about child's progress in class (6); PTA/PTO (6); first notification of child's trouble in school (1); believe child or teacher in case of trouble (1); having child moved from class because of a teacher (1); teacher confronting parent about child's behavior in school (3); problems with teacher's treatment of child (2); visits to child's school (2); child's effort on schoolwork (1); helping child succeed at school (1); description of child as a student (1); child's attendance of neighborhood school (1); communication with child's teacher (1); lunch for child at school (2); rating of experiences/observations of school (5); school reputation as a desirable workplace (1); student performance on standardized tests (1); seriousness of problems (18); experiences with different types of parents (6); more effect ways to get better results with students (3); ranking of important things parents can do at home/school to help child's education (20); special hours for working with parents (2); role for parents in homework assigned (2); advice for parents on child's schoolwork (1); experiences as a teacher (6); truth about statements (5); problems facing the school (1); opportunities for children to get needs/want met from school (1); parental attention to child's schooling (1); questions from parents new to the school (1); experiences with parents at the school (14); parents in the classroom (1); troublemaker parents (1); negative experiences with parents (1); parent participation in committees (6); parental knowledge about schooling (4); number of parents of students teachers get to know (1); academically successful children without parent-teacher relationship (1); communication with parents (4); contacting a parent (1); school policy requiring teachers to send home interim evaluations of student's progress (1); percentage of students eligible for free/reduced-price lunch (1); school participation in Title I (1); grade level taught (1); area students in the school come from (2); years as a teacher (1); years teaching at current school (1); class about parental development (2).