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The 74 Fact-Check: Are Teachers Really Burning Out Because of Tougher Tests and Evaluations?

Matt Barnum

The 74 Fact-Check: All the Ways Donald Trump and Ted Cruz Flubbed on Education at Thursday’s Debate

Carolyn Phenicie

Don’t Humiliate Teachers… But Fire the Worst: Does David Denby Realize He’s Agreeing With Reformers?

Matt Barnum

The Fact-Check: Not Every State Takeover of a Troubled School District Deserves an F

Matt Barnum

New York Times Gives Credence to Conservatives’ Common Core Delusion

Matt Barnum

The Fact-Check: Why John Merrow’s Misleading DC Rant Ignores Facts, Research and the Full Truth

Matt Barnum

Fact-Checking Clinton on Charter Students: She Misses the Big Picture — but Also Has a Point

Matt Barnum

Fact-Check: Hey Education Pundits, Stop Writing Early Obituaries for School Improvement Grants

Matt Barnum

Fact-Check: Mainstream Media Picks Up Anti-Charter Report, But Fails to Disclose Union Funding

Eric Owens

What if No Child Left Behind Worked and Nobody Realized it? Blame the Media.

Matt Barnum

Resisting School Integration: A Brooklyn Case Study in Scared Parents and Bad Data

Matt Barnum

Fact-Check: Are Washington’s Charters Harming the State’s Traditional Public Schools?

Matt Barnum

Fact-Check: Just How Many Tenured Teachers Are Fired Each Year Anyway? (Hint: Not Many)

Matt Barnum

A NYT Contributor Attacks the ‘Myth’ of New Orleans’ School Progress After Katrina. She’s Wrong

Matt Barnum

Separating Fact from Fiction at the Education Summit: What Research Confirms (and Disproves) About the Rhetoric

Matt Barnum

Fact-Checking All Those Charter Critics Who Snatched Defeat from Jaws of New Orleans’ Victory

Matt Barnum

The Fact-Check: No Vox, All the Good Schools Are NOT in Rich Neighborhoods

Matt Barnum