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Four in ten say schools don't prepare students to consider others' struggles

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More than four-in-ten Americans (43%) reject the idea that schools prepare young people to weigh other Americans' struggles as voters, including 23% who strongly disagree, according to an October 2024 Verasight survey.

About three-in-ten (31%) are neutral, while 23% agree schools do prepare students this way; a small share (2%) declined to answer.

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Four in ten say schools don't prepare students to consider others' struggles.

Our schools prepare young people to think about the challenges faced by other Americans when they become voters?

  • Neutral 31.4%
  • Strongly disagree 22.8%
  • Somewhat disagree 20.6%
  • Somewhat agree 15.1%
  • Strongly agree 7.6%
  • Prefer not to answer 2.5%

2024 · base n 1,000 · +/- 3.4%

educ_pol

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Methodology

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Mode
Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
Field dates
2024-10-01 → 2024-10-11
Base (unweighted)
1,000
Margin of error
+/- 3.4%
Module
educ_pol

Source

Citation

Verasight APSA Omnibus Survey #2024-103, fielded October 1-11, 2024, N=1,000 US adults age 18+, +/- 3.4%.

https://verasight-apsa-2024.tiiny.co

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Mode
Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting.
Population
US adults age 18+.
Sample design
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Field window
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Weighting
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Partisanship benchmark
Pew Research Center's NPORS benchmarking surveys, three-year running average.
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2024 presidential vote population benchmarks.
Margin of error
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