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1st Parent Agrees to Plead Guilty in College Bribery Scandal

The case is the biggest college admissions scheme ever prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department.

Did Second Lady Karen Pence Work at a School That Bans LGBT Teachers and Students?

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?

Articles criticizing the Common Core curriculum draw causal connections where none exist.

Did a Pennsylvania Teacher Assign Math Homework That Referred to Sexual Assault?

Students at Pennridge High School were asked to solve algebra formulas using vignettes from the difficult early life of Maya Angelou; Internet outrage ensued.

The Remarkable Sabrina Pasterski

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?

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?

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?

Right-wing web sites used alarmist language and false claims to describe a reading event at a California library.

Activist Malala Yousafzai Accepted to Study at the University of Oxford

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?

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.