dr. gallup included these questions. we asked americans to grade this cools. it is a three-part question that we asked. the first question is to grade the schools in your local community. approximately 50% gave the schools in their community either an a or a b. this is a consistent finding that we have found over the last couple of years. it has stayed about the same, these scores. this is the second part of the question. we asked americans to grade the nation's schools. brandon talked about this. you can see the responses are very different. that, inggest to you fact, there are no nation's schools. communities.re in the depictionlly of the schools in the media. what is interesting here is that the results have again stayed fairly consistent for several years. finally, and brandon mentioned this also, this is the third part of the question. we asked parents to grade the schools that their oldest child attends. of the three, these are the highest grades. and haver around 70% gone as high as 77% a's and b's. lowerear, it is slightly p we have seen a decline in r

dr. gallup led the poll for 15 years working in close association with pdk.then he turned it over to his son alec. alec directed the poll for 25 years. itst the poll into recognition we see today. these are two great icons in polling. and it's created a great opportunity to investigate and understand what americans believe about the public schools. conductede poll is annually for 46 years, and there are very few polls that can say that, we can revisit many of the questions year after year and that allows us to be in a unique position to provide trend data, looking to see how americans' opinions change over time. the other thing i want to mention is we are dedicated to transparency. we list every question we ask verbatim in the poll. to take ate readers look of the questions. we make interpretations but we invite others to make interpretations based upon the way the question was asked. theere guided in development of the questions this year by a 15 member advisory council that met in february. these are education leaders representing a broad spectrum, teachers

dr. gallup included these questions. we asked americans to grade this cools. it is a three-part question that we asked. the first question is to grade the schools in your local community. approximately 50% gave the schools in their community either an a or a b. this is a consistent finding that we have found over the last couple of years. it has stayed about the same, these scores. this is the second part of the question. we asked americans to grade the nation's schools. brandon talked about this. you can see the responses are very different. that, inggest to you fact, there are no nation's schools. communities.re in the depictionlly of the schools in the media. what is interesting here is that the results have again stayed fairly consistent for several years. finally, and brandon mentioned this also, this is the third part of the question. we asked parents to grade the schools that their oldest child attends. of the three, these are the highest grades. and haver around 70% gone as high as 77% a's and b's. lowerear, it is slightly p we have seen a decline in r

gallup poll 42%, 51% disapproving. but in almost every category, the president's policies are unpopular. so how will history evaluate him? joining us now from washington, drickman and jane hampton cook, a presidential historian has written two recent books, american star spangled story and american phoenix. all right, after about six years where president obama has had a turbulent time, particularly in the last two years, how do you see him ranking? >> i think he'll rank ultimately in the bottom 20, maybe the bottom 15, depending on the choices that he makes with isis. >> why is that so important? >> well, because isis, we don't know how great a threat that they are. and if we have another 9/11 or if we have even an iranian hostage crisis, i think that will really decrease his ranking if things go really bad. >> all right. so if the terrorism strikes the united states, obviously any sitting president would take a hit. mr. lickman, dr. lichtman, how do you see it? >> i think she is misguided in many ways. number one, legacies drastically change over time. you can't judge them at the moment. harry truman had 22% approval rating in his last year, half of tha