In October of 2024, 50CAN published The State of Educational Opportunity in America, a poll of 20,000 American parents. It asked questions related to school quality and opportunity; tutoring, summer, and mental health; out of school activities; information and engagement; and college and career readiness.

I reached out to 50CAN Founder and CEO Marc Porter-Magee to ask him a few questions and he kindly responded. Our lightly edited conversation is below.

CONWAY: What did you seek to learn from doing this survey?

PORTER-MAGEE: We wanted to know more about all the educational opportunities kids are experiencing, how those opportunities varied across groups and across states, and how parents felt about their kids’ progress. These were questions that could only be answered through a 20,000-parent poll....