Among our recently released work:

• An early release from the 2018 Phi Delta Kappa poll on school security covering parents’ concerns and preferences when it comes to keeping their children safe at school. There’s consensus on some measures – like stationing armed police in the schools, providing mental health screenings and using metal detectors – but significantly less support for arming teachers and staff. That said, if a rigorous training program were implemented, putting guns in the hands of teachers gains in popularity. Full results of the poll – which covers K-12 issues ranging from inequity of opportunity to college affordability – will be released in September.
• A survey on Americans’ attitudes toward global warming and related topics, with researchers from Stanford’s Political Psychology Research Group and Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research institution working to improve environmental decision-making. Awareness of the issue is up, and support for action – including making the cuts called for in the Paris agreement rejected by Donald Trump – is broad. But the public has significant concerns about whether government action can reduce global warming and questions the urgency of the problem.
• Our paper on using MRP to predict the 2016 election has been officially published online by Public Opinion Quarterly for print release in the next issue. Our models, developed over the course of the campaign, successfully predicted the outcome in nearly all states using cumulative data from our ABC News/Washington Post polls.