Survey: Students Give Schools Middling Marks

Most high school students do not believe their public schools are preparing them "extremely well" to know how to learn, get a good job, or go to college, according to an annual survey of teachers and students released last week.

Teacher confidence was not much higher. Fewer than one-fifth of the teachers surveyed gave the top rating to their schools in preparing students to learn.

The findings are part of the 19th annual survey of teachers and students conducted by Harris Interactive for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., a New York City-based insurance company. They were based on interviews earlier this year with a nationally representative sample of 2,049 public school 7th to 12th graders, 1,273 public school teachers of kindergarten through 12th grade,...

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