Seventh Annual Gallup Poll of Public Attitudes Toward Education.

Abstract

to publish the full report of an attitude survey conducted by Gallup International. The first report in the seven-year series was published in full by the Institute for Develop ment of Educational Activities (l/D/E/A). compilation of the first five polls is available as a Phi Delta Kappa paperback: The Gallup Polls of Attitudes Toward Educa tion, 1969-1973. Reprints of the sixth poll can be obtained from Phi Delta Kappa. The Gallup education polls are now an established source of reliable information concerning trends in opinion about significant school questions. For school officials, the polls can be valuable in two important ways. They alert decision makers to overall public reaction to a variety of school programs and policies. And they serve as a national benchmark against which local attitudes can be measured. The paperback noted above includes a chapter titled A Look into Your School District telling how local attitudes can be measured. If local poll directors wish to employ the same questions asked in the Gallup surveys, they are welcome to do so. The questions are not copyrighted. Moreover, no limitations are placed upon the use of information contained in this report, beyond customary credit to source and observance of the usual canons of