{"id":20541,"date":"2020-08-12T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=20541"},"modified":"2021-09-27T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T18:44:54","slug":"new-survey-just-39-of-american-parents-think-kids-will-get-a-good-education-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/new-survey-just-39-of-american-parents-think-kids-will-get-a-good-education-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"New Survey: Just 39% of American Parents Think Kids Will Get a Good Education This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Additional data in this post comes from a segment of the Salesforce Global Stakeholder Series, based on a global survey<\/a> of over 20,000 respondents.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the path toward economic recovery, Americans rank<\/a> schools second on a list of the most important physical reopenings, behind only essential businesses like grocery stores and pharmacies. Yet with new COVID-19 cases near<\/a> their highest levels to-date, parents are grappling with at least a semester of partial- or fully-remote learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salesforce conducted two separate surveys that included parents in the United States to understand the concerns that underpin this back-to-school season like no other, and the role of business in overcoming them. Here\u2019s an overview of what we found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parents are worried about the nation\u2019s students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Despite the uncharted waters they\u2019re preparing to navigate, the nation\u2019s parents are generally optimistic about their own children\u2019s educational prospects during the pandemic. In fact, 65% of parents say their children will have access to quality education during the upcoming school year, with no significant differences across demographic, socioeconomic, or geographic factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parents\u2019 outlooks for the nation\u2019s students as a whole, however, are far less rosy. Just 39% of parents believe that most children in the U.S. will have access to quality education this year. 55% of parents go as far as to say that the country has deprioritized education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These sentiments around the ability of schools to serve children during a historic pandemic are set against the backdrop of broader concerns around the state of American education. 67% of US Parents believe access to education is not improving \u2014 higher than the global figure of 60%.<\/p>\n\n\n

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