Gallup/The Kettering Foundation Poll # 1973-AIPO870: 5th Annual Survey of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools
Creators: name: Foundation, The Kettering
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2005

description: Richard Nixon job performance (1); most important problem facing this country today (1); Republican party vs. Democratic party (1); most important problem facing this country(1); respect respondent has for certain institutions (8); Richard Nixon vs. Edward Kennedy (2); John Connally vs. Edward Kennedy (2); daily newspapers (5); did/did not listen to radio yesterday (2); did/did not watch TV yesterday (2); which party would like to see win if elections for Congress were being held today (2); how often respondent is at home (3); how religious is respondent (1); do/do not have any children in local public schools (1); do/do not have any children in parochial or private schools (1); biggest problems with public schools in community (1); in what ways are local public schools particularly good (1); overall attitude toward public schools in community (1); ideal number of students in a high school (1); high schools today are getting too large/are not large enough (1); small classes do/do not make a difference in regard to achievement or progress of students (1); good/poor idea to establish new kinds of schools which place more responsibility upon student for what he learns and how he learns it (1); would approve/disapprove of children starting school one year earlier at age four (1); why are many families in big cities moving to suburbs (1); additional expenditure of money per child per school year does/does not make a difference in achievement or progress of students (1); would favor/oppose an increase in state taxes to pay more of the cost of local school expenses (1); children today get a better/worse education than respondent did (2); school integration (3); importance of schools to one's future success (3); sources of information respondent uses to judge quality of schools in community (1); parents right to sue a school district if a student of normal intelligence and without physical disabilities reaches the sixth grade without being able to read (1); study of trades, professions, and businesses to help students decide on their careers (2); oldest child in school is/is not learning the things respondent believes he/she should be learning (1); oldest child in school is/is not happy to go to school (1); attitude toward newspapers (2); attitude toward television (2); what sections or features in newspaper would respondent miss the most if there were a strike and newspapers couldn't publish (1); newspaper reporter should/should not be required to reveal name of source if taken to court to testify about information in his news article (1); agree more with government's/press's position on classifying certain things as confidential (1); treatment of Nixon administration by media (2); newspapers' job performance in presenting both sides of controversial issues (1); agree/disagree with certain criticisms that have been made about newspapers in general (6); freedom of the press (4); birth control pills (3); tire advertising (6).