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title: "Is Our Children Learning?"
description: "Fully 78% of voters cite education as a very important issue."
date: "2008-06-20"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2008/06/20/is-our-children-learning/"
---

# Is Our Children Learning?

Roughly three-quarters of voters (78%) cite education as an issue important to their vote for president, the same number who cite healthcare, energy and Social Security. Even though large majorities of Republicans (73%) and independents (74%) rate education as a very important issue, even more Democrats see it as a high priority (87%). About the same number of voters rate education as very important this year as did so in October 2004 (75%). [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/853/mccain-obama-negatives)