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Thursday, May 30, 2013

Hart, Weingarten, and Power Point Deception | deutsch29

Hart, Weingarten, and Power Point Deception | deutsch29:

Hart, Weingarten, and Power Point Deception

Randi Weingarten really wants to promote the illusion that teachers have bought into the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). She hired Hart Research Associates to conduct a survey of AFT membership regarding perceptions about CCSS, and Hart did so March 27 – 30, 2013. Weingarten has used this survey as a platform to proclaim that “75% of AFT teachers surveyed support the Common Core.” But it is a lie, and I can prove it using a single Power Point slide composed by Hart for AFT and promoted by AFT and comparing that slide to the actual survey question.
I have written about other issues related to the Hart/AFT survey, but the gross manipulation of the survey result I will show in this post trumps all.
Proper Reporting of Survey Results
The National Council on Public Polls (NCPP) was established in 1969 to “set the highest professional standards for public opinion pollsters.” Its membership includes 27 polling organizations, including ABC News, Annenberg