Report: Kids Check Out of School as They Get Older, and Parents Are in the Dark
A new study from the Brookings Institution finds that parents and children differ massively on how much learning happens in school.

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American parents are far more bullish about the quality of learning in schools than their kids, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution. While substantially less than half of all high schoolers say that they believe they鈥檙e learning a lot each day, over 70% of parents say they are.
The report, released Monday by the Washington think tank鈥檚 , shows that parents also appear to overestimate how much students 鈥渓ove鈥 going to school. The divergence in perceptions between adults and children only grows with age, mostly driven by a sizable drop in the numbers of students reporting positive experiences in school after the elementary years.
The figures point to a failure not only to keep students engaged in school, but also to keep families informed about the true state of their children鈥檚 learning, said Rebecca Winthrop, the report鈥檚 lead author and a Brookings senior fellow. Parents themselves, she added, find it 鈥渉ard to admit鈥 that K鈥12 education isn鈥檛 offering