American faith in schools slips.
Only 40 percent of American respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. to a survey have a "great deal" of confidence in public schools, down 18 percentage points from the public's high point of 58 percent in 1973, according to according to
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The confidence level is on par with the medical system, at 44 percent, and television news, at 35 percent. Public school confidence waned in the 1970s and sunk to just 39 percent in 1983 after the A Nation at Risk report was released. But faith rebounded in the mid- mid-
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Middle: midbrain. 1980s--reaching 49 percent in 1988.
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