Washington Post made the correction!
"An earlier version of the piece stated that public funding for schools had decreased since the late 1980s.
That is not the case. In fact, funding at the federal, state, and local levels has increased between the 1980s and 2019."
"An earlier version of the piece stated that public funding for schools had decreased since the late 1980s.
That is not the case. In fact, funding at the federal, state, and local levels has increased between the 1980s and 2019."
Here is the before and after.
They *completely* removed the sentence about spending decreasing because it was entirely indefensible.
They *completely* removed the sentence about spending decreasing because it was entirely indefensible.
This is great - they kept the subheading:
"The one thing we haven't tried in the past 30 years is sufficiently investing in our schools."
That would be true if spending decreased, but they just admitted that it did not.
"The one thing we haven't tried in the past 30 years is sufficiently investing in our schools."
That would be true if spending decreased, but they just admitted that it did not.
Here is the link to the WaPo piece
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Here's my thread exposing the error on Dec 11th
A lot of people are commenting that this was a big mistake by a Washington Post *journalist*
But it's worse than that.
It was Robert Pianta, dean of UVA's Curry School of Education.
But it's worse than that.
It was Robert Pianta, dean of UVA's Curry School of Education.
