Drawing on 16 years of nationally representative survey data from 2007-2022, David M. Houston demonstrates that among the U.S. general public, partisan gaps—the average differences in opinion between Democrats and Republicans—have widened on many education issues. The growth of these gaps consistently exceeds what would be expected due to the changing demographic compositions of the parties alone.

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About David

David M. Houston is an assistant professor in the College of Education and Human Development and a university affiliate faculty in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is also a faculty affiliate at EdPolicyForward at Mason as well as the survey director of the Education Next poll at Harvard University. Professor Houston’s research interests include public opinion on education issues, measuring school quality, racial/ethnic and economic segregation, and school board elections.

About OLLI Mason

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