What is true about facts?

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What is true about opinions?

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What is true about statistics?

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What is true about empirical evidence?

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"President Barack Obama was born in the United States."

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"Democracy is the greatest form of government."

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"Immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally have some rights under the Constitution."

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"Immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally are a very big problem for the country today.."

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"Spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid make up the largest portion of the U.S. federal budget."

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"Abortion should be legal in most cases."

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"Health care costs per person in the U.S. are the highest in the developed world."

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"Government is almost always wasteful and inefficient."

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"ISIS lost a significant portion of its territory in Iraq and Syria in 2017."

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"Increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour is essential for the health of the U.S. economy."

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"School is a vaccine for ignorance."

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"According to statista, Singapore was the most literate country across the Asia pacific region in 2018."

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"Nepal had 21.5 students for every teacher in 2017. Meanwhile, Singaporean teachers only had around 15.2 students on average."

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Earlier this fall, APM Reports senior correspondent Emily Hanford came out with a 52-minute audio documentary about the failure of many American schools to teach reading.

It’s not that schools aren’t trying, according to Hanford, it’s that they aren’t using methods of teaching that line up with scientific evidence on how the brain learns. In so doing, schools doom way too many kids to struggle with a make-or-break academic skill.

For many of those who remember the so-called Reading Wars—a heated debate during the 1980s and 190s over how to teach kids to read—the mere mention of reading instruction can produce groans and eye rolls. However, Hanford takes a fresh look at the situation, avoiding some of the common pitfalls of the genre. Partly as a result, Hanford’s documentary is the most-viewed article on the APM Reports webpage and has generated a slew of responses.

Another simpler way to put this is that education is a passport to new worlds.