1st Parent Agrees to Plead Guilty in College Bribery Scandal
3 April 2019 The case is the biggest college admissions scheme ever prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department.
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Did Second Lady Karen Pence Work at a School That Bans LGBT Teachers and Students?
17 January 2019 The wife of Vice President Mike Pence resumed her work as an art teacher at the Immanuel Christian School in Northern Virginia in January 2019.
Did Ditching Common Core Cause a Florida School’s Test Results to Improve?
20 March 2018 Articles criticizing the Common Core curriculum draw causal connections where none exist.
Did a Pennsylvania Teacher Assign Math Homework That Referred to Sexual Assault?
6 February 2018 Students at Pennridge High School were asked to solve algebra formulas using vignettes from the difficult early life of Maya Angelou; Internet outrage ensued.
Does MIT Offer Students a ‘Pirate Certificate’?
31 January 2018 The prestigious university counts among its alumni Nobel laureates, leaders of science and industry, and a fleet of certified swashbucklers.
The Remarkable Sabrina Pasterski
27 December 2017 A viral meme about a Harvard University graduate student gets most (but not all) of the facts right.
Does the 2017 Tax Reform Bill Help Private Schools and Hurt Public Schools?
5 December 2017 The legislation grants tax breaks to families with children in private schools, while repealing deductions for state and local taxes that fund public schools.
Would the Republican Tax Plan Count Graduate Tuition Waivers as Taxable Income?
5 December 2017 The House of Representatives version would, the Senate version would not.
Did a Drag Queen in a ‘Demonic’ Outfit Read a Sexually Explicit Book to Children at a Public Library?
18 October 2017 Right-wing web sites used alarmist language and false claims to describe a reading event at a California library.
Did a Catholic School in California Remove Religious Statues From Its Campus?
29 August 2017 Conservative web sites accurately stated that the San Domenico school has removed some statues; but they exaggerated the extent of the removal and omitted crucial context.
Activist Malala Yousafzai Accepted to Study at the University of Oxford
17 August 2017 The 20-year-old was shot by the Taliban at the age of 15 for agitating for the right to an education
Did Betsy DeVos Say History Textbooks Should Be Based on the Bible?
8 March 2017 A report stating that Trump's Secretary of Education wants to exclude all information not found in the Bible from history textbooks is satire, not fact.
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Is This 450-Pound Dog Real?
1 April 2019 And who is walking whom in this relationship?
Does a Photograph of a Large Crowd Show a PA Trump Rally?
23 May 2019 Fifty years and a whole lot of cultural differences separate these two events.
Did Disney Acquire Pornhub?
21 May 2019 Some QAnon conspiracy theorists were apparently taken by a bit of satire.
Did President Trump ‘Go Ballistic’ on ‘Fox and Friends’?
21 May 2019 "The Trump quote going around today is a poorly done Photoshop."
Did All Democrats Vote Against a 2.8 Percent Social Security COLA Increase?
18 October 2018 Social Security cost of living allowances are established by formula and don't require Congressional approval.