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Satisfaction with U.S. Schools Remains Subdued, According to New Gallup Poll

Satisfaction with U.S. Schools Remains Subdued, According to New Gallup Poll

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September 9th, 2026

Satisfaction with U.S. Schools Remains Subdued, According to New Gallup Poll

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Satisfaction with K-12 education in the United States has plummeted to historic lows, propelled by the deepening political fissures and by apprehensions that schooling is failing to adequately equip children for higher education and their prospective professional lives.

米囜のK-12教育に察する満足床は、政治的亀裂の深化ず、孊校教育が児童を高等教育や将来の職業生掻ぞず十分に備えさせおいないずいう懞念に牜匕され、歎史的䜎氎準にたで沈降した。

Although the survey was conducted in August, according to the poll released by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation and shared exclusively with Reporters, a mere 32% of American adults expressed that they were either "completely" or "somewhat" satisfied with the nation's schooling system.

実斜されたのは8月のこずであるが、ギャラップずりォルトン・ファミリヌ財団が発衚し、Reportersず独占的に共有した䞖論調査によれば、米囜の成人の僅か32%が、米囜の孊校教育制床に察しお「完党に」たたは「ある皋床」満足しおいるず回答した。

This represents an 11-point decline over the past two years, indicating that satisfaction has plummeted to its lowest level in a full 27 years since Gallup first began polling on this subject.

これは過去2幎間で11ポむントの䞋萜を蚘録し、ギャラップがこの䞻題に関しお調査を開始しお以来、実に27幎間で最䜎の氎準にたで萜ち蟌んだこずを瀺しおいる。

Concurrently, dissatisfaction surged to an exceptionally elevated level of 67%.

同時に、䞍満は67%ずいう極めお高い氎準ぞず増加した。

Experts in the realms of educational policy and schooling contend that, whilst these findings portend a profoundly disquieting state of affairs, they by no means constitute an unforeseen development.

教育政策ず孊校教育の領域における専門家たちは、この調査結果が極めお憂慮すべき事態を呈しおいるものの、決しお予想倖の展開ではないず指摘しおいる。

The Democratic Party has been the principal architect of the recent decline in approval ratings, with satisfaction having registered a pronounced drop of approximately 19 percentage points since the inauguration of President Donald Trump's second administration in 2025.

民䞻党が盎近の支持率䜎䞋の䞻導的圹割を担っおおり、ドナルド・トランプ倧統領の第二期政暩が2025幎に発足しお以来、満足床は玄19ポむントの顕著な䞋萜を蚘録しおいる。

Satisfaction among independents has likewise evinced a trajectory of diminution, retreating by roughly 10 points relative to the 2024 baseline, whereas even Republican partisans have exhibited a decline of approximately 6 points—modest in magnitude, yet by no means negligible.

無党掟局における満足床もたた枛退の様盞を呈しおおり、2024幎時点から玄10ポむントの埌退を瀺す䞀方、共和党支持局の満足床も玄6ポむントずいう緩やかながら無芖し埗ぬ䜎䞋を芋せおいる。

Jack Schneider, director of the Center for Education Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has asserted that the Trump administration has contributed to the erosion of public trust by framing schools as arenas of political strife, casting doubt on the permissible bounds of teacher discourse within classrooms, and championing the abolition of diversity initiatives alongside the dismantling of the Department of Education.

トランプ政暩は、孊校を政治的闘争の堎ずしお䜍眮づけ、教宀内における教垫の発蚀の蚱容範囲に぀いお疑矩を呈し、倚様性プログラムの廃止や教育省の解䜓を掚進するこずにより、公共の信頌の毀損に寄䞎しおいるず、マサチュヌセッツ倧孊アマヌスト校教育政策センタヌ所長ゞャック・シュナむダヌ氏は指摘した。

"This is a truly alarming state of affairs.

「これは実に憂慮すべき事態である。

We find ourselves teetering on the precipice of the collapse of the very framework of public education as it has been known to date," remarked Schneider.

我々は、これたでに知られおきた公立教育制床ずいう枠組みそのものが厩壊の瀬戞際に立たされおいるのである」ずシュナむダヌ氏は述べた。

According to him, what particularly alarms the Democratic Party is the school choice program championed by Trump, which seeks to utilize taxpayer-funded scholarships to cover the costs of children's attendance at private institutions.

同氏によれば、民䞻党が特に懞念しおいるのは、トランプ氏が旗印ずする孊校遞択プログラムであり、これは玍皎者の負担による奚孊金を掻甚しお児童の私立孊校就孊費甚を賄おうずするものであるずいう。

However, political factors alone cannot account for this discontent.

しかし、政治的芁因のみがこの䞍満を説明し埗るわけではない。

According to Gallup polling, since the pandemic-induced closure of classrooms, public confidence in schools has been on a steady, overarching decline, thereby exacerbating the deterioration of academic performance, a host of mental health afflictions, and a spectrum of other pressing concerns.

ギャラップ瀟の䞖論調査が瀺すずころによれば、新型コロナりむルス感染症のパンデミックによる教宀閉鎖以来、公衆の孊校に察する信頌は総じお衰退の䞀途を蟿っおおり、その結果ずしお孊力の䜎䞋、粟神的健康䞊の諞問題、その他の懞念事項が䞀局深刻化しおいるのである。

The headlines have consistently woven a narrative of declining national test scores, particularly in reading comprehension, and have continued to propagate the implication that schools are struggling to recover from the depressed levels witnessed during the pandemic.

芋出しは終始䞀貫しお、特に読解力における党囜的なテストスコアの䜎䞋ずいう物語を玡いでおり、孊校がパンデミック時の䜎氎準から回埩するのに苊慮しおいるずいう瀺唆を発信し続けおいる。

"The relentless deluge of adverse reports concerning test scores and other societal trends may well have precipitated this state of affairs," remarked Sarah Reckhow, a professor of political science specialising in public policy at Michigan State University.

「テストスコアやその他の瀟䌚的傟向に関する悪い知らせが絶え間なく流れおおり、これがこの状況を惹起した可胜性がありたす」ず、ミシガン州立倧孊で公共政策を専門ずする政治孊教授サラ・レックホヌ氏は述べた。

"There exists a veritable cacophony of discourse, deliberation, and clamour surrounding technology and AI in education," she asserted.

「教育におけるテクノロゞヌずAIをめぐる議論、考察、そしお喧噪が倥しく存圚しおいたす」ず圌女は蚀明した。

Moreover, in recent years, the issue of children's screen time within educational settings has come to dominate headlines both at the local and national level.

そしお近幎では、孊校における児童のスクリヌンタむムが、地域的にも党囜的にも教育界の芋出しを垭巻しおいる。

Nevertheless, parents harbour a markedly divergent perspective when it comes to the education of their own offspring.

しかしながら、保護者たちは、自らの子の教育に関しおは、これずは異なる芋解を有しおいる。

Roughly two-thirds of parents with school-age children profess satisfaction with their child's education—a figure that, while languishing at the lower echelons of this trend (parental discontent has not been so conspicuously manifest since 2013), nonetheless amounts to fully double the 32% of adults who express contentment with American education as a whole.

孊霢期の子女を抱える保護者のおよそ䞉分の二が、自らの子の教育に察しお満足しおいるず回答しおおり、これは圓該傟向の䞭でも䜎氎準に䜍眮するものの保護者の䞍満がこれほどたでに顕圚化したのは2013幎以来のこずである、米囜の教育党䜓に満足を瀺す成人の32%ずいう数倀の実に2倍に盞圓するのである。

This reflects a steadfast tendency whereby parents place greater confidence in their own local schools than in the narratives they glean from headlines concerning elected officials and the broader national landscape.

This reflects a steadfast tendency whereby parents place greater confidence in their own local schools than in the narratives they glean from headlines concerning elected officials and the broader national landscape.

"When citizens articulate their views on the nation's educational system," Schneider observed, "what they are in fact scrutinizing are the 98,999 schools they have never once set foot in—a figure that constitutes the overwhelming majority of schools across the country."

「囜民が囜の教育制床に぀いお芋解を衚明する際、圌らが実際に論評の察象ずしおいるのは、䞀床も足を螏み入れたこずのない98,999校のこずであり、その数は党囜の孊校の実に倧倚数を占めおいる」ずシュナむダヌ氏は指摘した。

Furthermore, a separate survey conducted by Gallup and Walton in August queried Americans on the extent to which they perceived schooling as equipping children for the future.

さらに、8月にギャラップずりォルトンが実斜した別の調査では、米囜人に察し、孊校教育が子䟛たちを将来に向けおいかなる皋床に準備させおいるず認識しおいるかが問われた。

Merely around one-fifth of respondents affirmed that schools were achieving 'good' or 'excellent' outcomes in cultivating critical thinking and endowing students with pragmatic aptitude for the contemporary workforce.

批刀的思考の涵逊や、珟圚の劎働力ずしおの実践的適性を生埒に付䞎する点においお、孊校が「良奜」たたは「優秀」な成果を挙げおいるず回答した者は、わずか玄2割に留たった。

The most favorable appraisal of schools pertained to the fostering of students' adaptability to emerging technologies, a domain in which 44% held the institutions in high regard.

孊校に察する最も高い評䟡が寄せられたのは、新たなテクノロゞヌぞの適応力を生埒に育成するずいう偎面であり、この領域においおは44%が孊校を高く評䟡した。

Zack Hrynowski, a senior education researcher at Gallup, remarked that these findings vividly underscore a broader and more entrenched discontent with the institution of education as a whole.

ギャラップの䞊玚教育研究員であるザック・ハむノりスキヌ氏は、これらの調査結果が、制床党般に察するより広範か぀根深い䞍満を劂実に浮き圫りにしおいるず論評した。

"People currently harbor a pervasive skepticism toward virtually every occurrence within the nation," remarked Hainowski.

「人々は珟圚、囜内のあらゆる事象に察しお広範な懐疑的芋解を抱いおいる」ずハむノりスキヌ氏は述べた。

"The citizenry is steeped in profound discontent, perceiving no institution as functioning with any semblance of adequacy."

「囜民は深い䞍満を募らせおおり、いかなる機関も適切に機胜しおいるずは認識しおいない。」

The inaugural Gallup survey was conducted via telephone over the period spanning August 3 to 24, 2026, targeting a randomly selected sample of American adults aged 18 and above.

最初のギャラップ調査は、2026幎8月3日から24日たでの期間にわたり電話方匏で実斜され、18歳以䞊の米囜成人から無䜜為に抜出されたサンプルを察象ずした。

The margin of sampling error for the entire population of American adults stands at plus or minus 4.0 percentage points, while it extends to plus or minus 8.3 percentage points when confined to parents of K-12 students.

米囜成人党䜓における暙本誀差はプラスマむナス4.0パヌセントポむントであり、K-12の生埒の保護者に限定した堎合の暙本誀差はプラスマむナス8.3パヌセントポむントに及ぶ。

The second survey was conducted between August 3 and 17, 2026, among 2,143 adults (aged 18 and over) residing in the United States, drawn from Gallup's probability-based panel, and was meticulously designed to be representative of the entire U.S. population.

第2回目の調査は、2026幎8月3日から17日たでの期間にわたり、ギャラップ瀟の確率論に基づくパネルから抜出された、米囜圚䜏の成人18歳以䞊2,143名を察象ずしお実斜され、米囜党人口を代衚するよう呚到に蚭蚈されおいる。

The margin of sampling error for all U.S. adults is calculated at plus or minus 3.0 percentage points.

米囜成人党䜓に察する暙本誀差は、プラスマむナス3.0パヌセントポむントず算出されおいる。

The Reporters' educational coverage is underwritten by funding from multiple private foundations.

The Reporters' educational coverage is underwritten by funding from multiple private foundations.

The Associated Press bears sole responsibility for all content.

The Associated Press bears sole responsibility for all content.

The AP's standards governing collaborations with philanthropic organizations, its roster of benefactors, and the specific domains of journalism financed by such contributions are all publicly accessible via AP.org.

The AP's standards governing collaborations with philanthropic organizations, its roster of benefactors, and the specific domains of journalism financed by such contributions are all publicly accessible via AP.org.

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