About Public Agenda

Founded a decade ago by public opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Public Agenda works to help average citizens better understand critical policy issues and to help the nation's leaders better understand the public's point of view. Public Agenda's in-depth research on how average citizens think about policy forms the basis for its extensive citizen education work. Its citizen education materials, used by the National Issues Forums and media outlets across the country, have won praise for their credibility and fairness from elected officials from both political parties and from experts and decision-makers across the political spectrum.

OFFICERS

Cyrus Vance
Chairman

Daniel Yankelovich
President

Maurice Lazarus
Executive Committee Chairman

POLICY REVIEW BOARD

The Hon. John Brademas
New York University

Robert A. Burnett
Meredith Corporation

Louis W. Cabot
Cabot Corporation, Inc.

Patricia Carbine
Ms. Foundation for Education &
Communication

Edward W. Carter
Carter, Hawley, Hale,
Stores, Inc.

Lisle C. Carter, Jr., Esq.
Washington, D.C.

The Honorable Dick Clark
The Aspen Institute

William K. Coors
Adolph Coors Co.

John C. Culver
Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin
& Kahn

The Honorable Douglas Dillon
New York

John T. Dunlop
Harvard University

William D. Eberle
Ebco, Inc.

Marian Wright Edelman
Children's Defense Fund

William Ellinghaus
Former President AT&T

Murray H. Finley
Amalgamated Clothing &
Textile Workers Union

John W. Gardner
Stanford University

Walter E. Hoadley
Hoover Institution

Shirley Hufstedler
Hufstedler, Miller, Carlson &
Beardsley

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld

Clark Kerr
University of California

Franklin A. Lindsay
Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Honorable Sol M. Linowitz
Coudert Brothers

Gilbert C. Maurer
The Hearst Corporation

James P. McFarland
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Ruben F. Mettler
TRW, Inc.

J. Irwin Miller
Cummins Engine Company

Newton N. Minow, Esq.
Sidley and Austin

Eleanor Holmes Norton
Congresswoman
Washington, DC

Jane C. Pfeiffer
Greenwich, Connecticut

The Honorable Elliot
Richardson
Millbank, Tweed, Hadley &AMP
McCloy

David E. Rogers
The New York Hospital-
Cornell Medical Center

The Honorable George Romney
Bloomfield Hills, MI

William M. Roth
San Francisco, CA

Jerome S. Rubin
Times Mirror Co.
William Ruder
William Ruder, Inc.

Sophie Sa
Panasonic Foundation, Inc.

Hershel B. Sarbin
Hershel B. Sarbin Assoc., Inc.

John Sawhill
Nature Conservancy

Adele Simmons
The John D. &AMPCatherine
T. MacArthur Foundation

Elmer B. Staats
Former Comptroller General

Lester Thurow
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology

Related Publications by Public Agenda

Reports available from Public Agenda can be ordered by calling or writing Public Agenda at 6 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016, tel: (212) 686-6610, fax: (212) 889-3461.

First Things First: What Americans Expect from the Public Schools. 1994.
Based on the findings from a national study of the views of over 1,100 members of the general public, including 550 parents of children currently in public school, this report examines public attitudes toward values issues in the schools as well as attitudes toward many education reform efforts. The report, in addition to reporting findings from the general public, offers detailed analyses of the views of white and African-American parents, as well as parents identified as traditional Christians. In essence, this report is a report card from the public on the education reform movement that was just beginning four years ago. Copies are available from Public Agenda for $10.00.
Divided Within, Besieged Without: The Politics of Education in Four American School Districts. 1993.
Prepared by Public Agenda for the Charles F. Kettering Foundation. The result of two years of education reform research and over 200 face-to-face interviews with teachers, principals, administrators, school board members, parents, and business executives in four typical school systems, this report reveals a significant barrier to educational reform-political gridlock among education stakeholders. It describes the substantial in-fighting and communication gaps among these groups and concludes with several recommendations for improving dialogue. The report can be ordered from Public Agenda for $10.00.
The Closing Gateway: Californians Consider Their Higher Education System. 1993.
This report was prepared by Public Agenda for the California Higher Education Policy Center. Based on the views expressed in eight California focus groups and phone surveys in California and across the nation, the study documents Californians' perceptions of the cost, accessibility, value, and opportunity in their higher education system and compares these attitudes with broader national attitudes citizens hold about their own state's higher education systems. ** See list of California Higher Education Policy Center publications for ordering information. **
Crosstalk: The Public, the Experts, and Competitiveness. 1991.
A Research Report from Public Agenda and the Business-Higher Education Forum. The report describes a gap between the way leaders and the public view the issue of US economic competitiveness and the associated crisis in education and work force training. The report is $17.50 and can be ordered from Public Agenda.

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