Remember that skewed, unscientific “survey” from UNCW? Well, if at first you don’t succeed with your push poll survey, try and try again.  This time, the NCAE is pushing it. This one is clearly geared towards teachers, judging by the questions. It’s distribution method is about as sound as the first one by Imig and Smith.

The image below is via Facebook, which is of course where scientific surveys start, right?

The link in the post takes you here.

The opening sentence is this:

This survey is intended to collect information from teachers regarding perceptions, experiences and impacts related to the educator evaluation system, merit pay and Race to the Top reforms in North Carolina.

Race To The Top Funds are heavily tied to Common Core and its implementation, yet there is not a single reference to it on this “survey”. That’s not surprising given the NCAE has thrown it’s support behind the Common Core despite the costs of the Core being in upwards of $642 million over the next 5 years — nowhere in that estimate is raising teacher pay, by the way. The NCAE has joined forces with the NC Chamber of Commerce in an attempt to silence opposition to the Core with a tidal wave of money and influence by partnering with the Chamber’s “Hire Standards” program.

Hi @NCAE -Where is the money coming from for the tv ad floating around promoting #CommonCore? Dues or #HireStandards? #NCGA #StopCommonCore

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) March 31, 2014

Also from the “survey”:

The data collected in this study will serve as a component of the Master of Public Administration (MPA) Capstone research project at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Capstone Seminar is completed at the end of the MPA program where key concepts from the curriculum are integrated and applied to contemporary issues in public administration. Professor Janna Siegel Robertson, Ph. D. at the University of North Carolina Wilmington is noted as the principal investigator (PI) for this research study and Megan M. Oakes is the MPA graduate student researcher.

Ms. Roberston sure does have a long resume and a tie to Pearson, which is getting a lot of money out of North Carolina between Common Core and Powerschool. Is Ms. Roberston  invested in Common Core? Perhaps she’s a proponent of the SBAC testing? Hard to tell from her comment on this Facebook post.

Robertson’s associate on this “survey”, Megan Oakes, has peddled it to Diane Ravitch.  Ms. Oakes’s resume is not as extensive or impressive (p.5).

UPDATE: Thank you to Carolina Plott Hound for linking!