Co-founder and partner of the FDR Group, Ann Duffett has been conducting public opinion research since 1994. Ann's career in survey research began at Louis Harris and Associates (currently known as Harris Interactive). As a key member of Harris's public policy research team, she conducted both public and proprietary opinion research on health care, public education, women's issues, and youth violence. As Senior Vice President at Public Agenda, a nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization, she was a principal investigator and co-author of dozens of opinion studies on social issues, including after-school programs, business ethics, child care, families, immigration, public education, and religion. Ann's expertise is in qualitative methods, sample design, and project management.Before becoming a public opinion research analyst, she held positions as an organizer for the National Organization for Women and as staff liaison to the Board of Trustees of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, a national medical association. Before co-founding the FDR Group, she had more than a dozen years of experience working in nonprofit organizations.Ann has a Ph.D. in sociology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her dissertation, Fathers Who Mother: A Study of Stay-at-Home Fathers in Contemporary American Families, explored the issues of gender, work-family balance, parenting, and child care. Ann holds a Bachelor's degree in Communication Arts and Elementary Education from Iona College in New Rochelle, New York, and a Master's degree in Public Administration from San Francisco State University.
Authored Commentary & Research
High Expectations
Common Core Math in the K-8 Classroom: Results from a National Teacher Survey
Jennifer M. Bay-Williams, Ann Duffett, David Griffith 6.23.2016
NationalReport
School Choice
Quality in Adversity: Lessons from Ohio's best charter schools
Steve Farkas, Ann Duffett 1.27.2016
OhioReport
High Expectations
Why do students read under their grade level?
Ann Duffett 5.22.2014
NationalFlypaper
High Expectations
Common Core in the Schools: A First Look at Reading Assignments
Tim Shanahan, Ann Duffett 10.22.2013
NationalReport
School Choice
Half empty or half full: Superintendents' views on Ohio's education reforms
Steve Farkas, Ann Duffett 5.16.2013
OhioReport
High Expectations
How Americans Would Slim Down Public Education
Steve Farkas, Ann Duffett 7.20.2012
NationalReport