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Fox Business and Terry Moe distort education issues to slam unions

  • 07-21-2011
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By David B. Cohen/InterACT

What a treat!  As I was channel surfing among the news networks last night (around 9:30 p.m. PDT), I came upon Fox Business News (FBN) at the exact moment they took up the topic of teacher evaluations.  I don’t know the name of the anchor, but there was an interview with Terry Moe of the Hoover Institution. Moe has done extensive research and writing about unions in American education, and I believe he understands the situation more thoroughly than he had opportunity to share on Fox last night.  As a service to him and anyone else interested, I offer this blog post as a counterpoint to the newscast, filling in the missing information, correcting the mistakes, and qualifying the over-generalizations. (more...)

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