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Who Gets to Learn? Illinoisans’ Views on Public Higher Education
Education
Rebecca Silliman, Cruz Fox, and Sarah Bryner 2025 Illinois institutions of higher education face an impending funding crisis Despite recent gains in...
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Economic Mobility Case Studies
Education
In 2025, the American Council on Education (ACE) will launch the new Carnegie Student Access and Earnings Classification According to ACE, the...
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The Political Alienation Barometer

Democracy
Nearly one-third of Americans are completely politically alienated—not because their preferred party isn’t in power, but because they don’t...
Report
America’s Hidden Common Ground on Public Higher Education: What’s Wrong and How to Fix...

Education
Americans think higher education can help people economically, particularly in their home states, according to this Public Agenda/USA TODAY Hidden...
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Journalists Discuss Reporting on Common Ground and Divisiveness

Democracy
Public Agenda conducted in-depth confidential interviews with a snowball sample of 18 journalists in the fall of 2021
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Americans’ Views of How the News Media Covers Teachers

Education
This report focuses on how Americans and K–12 public school teachers in particular view news media coverage of teachers and how they view the...
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Teachers in the News

Education
Teachers in the News provides an unprecedented analysis of education media coverage, as well as findings from both a survey of teachers and parents...
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America’s Hidden Common Ground: Putting Partisan Animosity in Perspective

Democracy
This Public Agenda/USA TODAY Hidden Common Ground report focuses on affective polarization, meaning negative feelings towards people whose political...
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America’s Hidden Common Ground on Renewing Democracy

Democracy
This Public Agenda/USA TODAY Hidden Common Ground survey, which is also part of Public Agenda’s ongoing series of Yankelovich Democracy Monitor...
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America’s Hidden Common Ground on Overcoming Divisiveness

Democracy
This Public Agenda/USA TODAY Hidden Common Ground survey, fielded in February 2021, finds a powerful consensus across political affiliations that the...
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Essential Educators: Teacher and Parent Views on COVID-19

Education
After a challenging fall semester, a national survey from Public Agenda finds that K-12 teachers and parents are largely on the same page regarding...