Narrative BUSTED?

[GURPS]

More from NPR:

This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, “nearly 240 schools … reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.” The number is far higher than most other estimates.

But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government’s Civil Rights Data Collection.

We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.

In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn’t confirm one. In at least four cases, we found, something did happen, but it didn’t meet the government’s parameters for a shooting. About a quarter of schools didn’t respond to our inquiries.

“When we’re talking about such an important and rare event, [this] amount of data error could be very meaningful,” says Deborah Temkin, a researcher and program director at Child Trends.​

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NPR (!) just shot some MASSIVE holes in a major gun control talking point

 

[stgislander]

What has happened to NPR lately?

 

[GURPS]

What has happened to NPR lately?

I am not sure ... I feel like I am in the Twilight Zone

 

[transporter]

I thought NPR was a left leaning commie pinko FAKE NEWS source???

I am also guessing you didn't read the actual article. Because....well why would you?

 

[Lurk]

I thought NPR was a left leaning commie pinko FAKE NEWS source???

I am also guessing you didn't read the actual article. Because....well why would you?

You're that Stanbury guy aren't you?

 

[Hijinx]

Why should I have to prove the schools are lying. Isn't that the job of these great journaiist's to do before hey print a false story?

 

[GURPS]

I thought NPR was a left leaning commie pinko FAKE NEWS source???

someone Rolled Over

 

[Lurk]

Why should I have to prove the schools are lying. Isn't that the job of these great journaiist's to do before hey print a false story?

This is a situation where the press is looking for any reason to hang this on the Secretary of Education. Unfortunately, after looking at the actual Office of Civil Rights (OCR) report and database it's clear the problem was data input error at the individual school district level. Even at 240 schools reporting wrong data, it's less than one percent of the 96,000 schools in the U.S.