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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Answer Sheet 7-30-14

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Campbell Brown’s anti-union group uses union slogan
Campbell Brown doesn’t hide her disdain for teachers unions. She has frequently railed against them, and formed an anti-union advocacy group that filed a lawsuit in New York this week seeking to eliminate job protections for teachers in the state. That’s why it is somewhat amusing that her group, the Partnership for Educational Justice, describes itself […]

Respected science publication is fooled by The Onion
It’s one thing for an Iranian news agency to mistakenly cite as fact a piece in The Onion, a satirical humor publication, as actually happened in 2012 when the Fars News Agency referred in all seriousness to an Onion story about a  Gallup poll that supposedly showed more rural white voters in America would rather […]


Answer Sheet 7-29-14
Answer Sheet: School puts nearly 100 kindergartners in one class in a teaching experiment(No, the headline is not from The Onion.) Brenda Scott Academy of Theater Arts is a high-poverty preK-8th school in east Detroit that is part of the Education Achievement Authority, a district run by Michigan authorities for schools identified as being the lowest-performing. Brenda Scott has an extended calend