Did Ditching Common Core Cause a Florida School’s Test Results to Improve?
19 November 2018 - Articles criticizing the Common Core curriculum draw causal connections where none exist.
Tagged "education"
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.
Meet Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Secretary of Education Nominee
22 August 1970 - The nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education inspired an Internet meme detailing her alleged lack of qualifications for the job.
Texas High School Students Fake Trump Assassination
21 November 2016 - Two Texas students were disciplined after writing a skit depicting the assassination of President-elect Trump.
