61% of Public School Parents Know ‘Little’ or ‘Nothing’ About Common Core Education Standards
A new Gallup poll concerning public school parents’ views of the Common Core standards finds that even in states that have implemented the centralized standards, 27% of parents surveyed said they know “only a little” about the standards, while 29% know “nothing” about them at all, leaving 56% of public school parents with little to no knowledge of how and what their children are being taught right now.
Among public school parents in general, 30% said they know “only a little” about the Common Core, while 31% said they know “nothing” about the standards.
The poll, which was conducted via telephone interviews with a random sample of 639 K-12 public school parents living throughout the United States, has a margin of error of + 5 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.