Thanks to NJEdReport for posting Sunlight’s blog and adding a great picture (from the Academy Award-winning movie “Cabaret”) of cherry-picking – which is Weber and Baker go-to method of “research.”  Weber and Baker predetermine their conclusion – in this case and very often the supposed need for more education spending by the state – and then cherry-pick the data to support their conclusion.  It is not sound research, and even a cursory examination by Sunlight exposes it.  Rather than the “independent” source of research it claims to be, NJ Policy Perspective is a source of biased “research” that supports the views of its major benefactor, the NJEA.