Exhibit A: When Charts Attack! The clip above is from Newsnight, a daily British news show. Evan Davis is interviewing Nicky Morgan, a government cabinet minister, following George Osborne’s ...

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Earlier that day the federal government released the latest round of scores for the NAEP exam, administered to a sample of the nation’s 4th and 8th graders in reading and math every few years.

Note: The chart does not include those who said they did not know or who did not respond. Based on a New York Times/Siena College poll of 2,516 voters nationwide conducted from Oct. 20 to 23.